Photo: Reuters / China DailyChinese farmer Wu Yulu likes making robots - has has made 25 robots in the past 26 years. Now, he is homeless and is forced to sell his home-made robots to pay off debts after his h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/homeless-chinese-farmers-fantastic-robots/Forget buying your friend's kids a drumset, buy 'em a gallon of paint instead! Found at Factum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/kids-and-an-open-can-of-paint-what-could-go-wrong/From the 2005 Winter Skating Championships in Lyon, France. The skater is Evgeni Plushenko [wiki] and the song is Tom Jones' Sex Bomb. I have no comment, you'd just have to see it ... Hit play or go to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/strangest-skating-performance-ever-evgeni-plushenko/In addition to making top-notch costumes and replicas (don't miss the Lord of the Ring's Nazgul Armor, Cylon Centurion costume, and Brazil Information Retrieval Mask) conceptual art company Kropserkel also mad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/kropserkels-horse-head-pillow/Mark Poyser made some awesome diagrams of events, people, and places described in the Bible. That one above (too small to read, so visit the site) is the descendants of Adam as described in the Genesis. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/bible-diagrams/Sunny, a police horse in Humberside, UK, has a sensitive skin that makes him prone to getting sunburns. After asking for help on the Net, a chemist mixed 5 gallon of SPF 50 lotion, which the horse uses e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/sunny-the-horse-needs-sunscreen/From Hot Gadgets:Measuring in at 19cm x 19cm x 39cm our Push Pin Lamp adds a dash of color to all work spaces, or wherever you want to put it for that matter.The lamp has a cork bottom that is great for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/push-pin-lamp/What is bossaball?Bossaball is a ball game between 2 teams. It's a mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira. The court is a combination of inflatables and trampolines, divided by a net.Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/volleyball-trampoline-bossaball/Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego. Cardinal Fang put together the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego. This one to the left is the fight with the Black Knight:Black Knight: Oh, ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/monty-python-holy-grail-in-lego/Andrey Kuznetsov made fantastic lubki (singular lubok), a form of Russian folk arts, inspired by famous Hollywood movies!Link - via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/andrey-kuznetsovs-movie-inspired-lubki/Physicist Stephen Hawking asked this question on Yahoo! Answers:How can the human race survive the next hundred years?In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/stephen-hawking-asked-regular-folks-answered-how-do-we-survive/Yes, everyone knows that ice floats - but you can actually make heavy ice that sinks to the bottom by using heavy water.The key to the trick is heavy ice. Many terms shouldn't be taken literally...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/ice-that-sinks/French architect Jaques Rougerie designed this floating rig that would look right at home in Jules Verne's story. So far, only a scale model has been built (this whole thing is from 2005), but the real...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/07/jaques-rougeries-sea-orbiter/In 1944, the Japanese Army sent then 23-year-old soldier named Hiroo Onoda to the small island of Lubang in the Philippines to lead a guerilla warfare.In 1974, nearly 30 years after the war was over, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/japanese-soldier-fought-ww-ii-decades-after-its-over/When Make Blog put a post on sandals from old auto tire, that's creative!But when Neatorama puts out sandals from old water bottles, that's just sad...(Forgot where I got this pic - if anyone knows the story b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/sandals-from-old-things/Life in New York City is tough on trees: compacted soil with high pH, pollution, and hot summer and cold winter make it hard for trees to flourish there.So, Cornell grad student Naalamie Amissah, Profess...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/cloning-oak-trees/Blip.tv has this video clip of the Escher-like chase scene of Richard Williams' classic The Thief and the Cobbler.Fantastic! http://www.blip.tv/file/47759?file_type=mpeg4 - via Milk and Cookies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/the-thief-and-the-cobblers-chase-scene/Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run ...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] via WFMU Beware of the Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/kenny-rogers-and-the-muppets-sing-the-gambler/Wim Delyove Delvoye is a Belgian artist who is famous for having unconventional art projects (such as cloaca, a machine whose sole purpose is to digest food and produce feces).Wim has also been tattooing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/wim-delyoves-tattooed-pigs/Jan Bollaert draws some very cool neo-pop art (with lots of flowers). This one is titled "The Little Butterfly". Link - via Xayide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/jan-bollaerts-neo-pop-art/From the website:A single boat seemingly floats in midair in the beautiful crystal clear beaches in the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean.http://www.athousandandone.com/?p=21 | Lots more neat p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/beautiful-water-of-maldives/In 2009, when the National Ignition Facility reaches its full operative capability, it will have the most powerful laser in the world at 500 trillion watt.On final approach, 192 laser beams will zing into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/worlds-largest-laser-500-trillion-watt/Fed up with horrible train service (it only runs once a week and at speed not much more than walking pace!), Cambodians have created their own rail service using trains made from bamboo: A tiny elect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/cambodian-bamboo-train/If you think you're having a bad day, at least a piece of your skull hasn't fallen off like Sambhu Roy's:Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sund...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/a-piece-of-mans-skull-fell-off/Michael Khor of Victoria, Australia, turned an ancient 26" wooden TV set into this gorgeous aquarium. Link - via J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/turning-old-tv-set-into-aquarium/Hoopeston, Illinois, a small midwestern town known as the Sweet Corn Capital of the World got its first witch school:It's a humble beginning, Hubbard says. The school is adorned with a "Witch Sc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/witch-school-moved-into-midwestern-town/14-year-old Swiss teen and naval enthusiast Aron Kreier spent 4 years to build his own pedal-powered submarine made from parts of a pig trough.Link to photo [article in German], News Article - via Fortrean Tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/teen-built-submarine-from-pig-trough/Jinnai Tomonori can make anything funny - even Tetris. It's probably funnier in Japanese, but you won't need a translation to figure out what's going on ...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/jinnai-tomonoris-tetris-standup-comedy/SuperMegaMau made his own PC case from wood for just 22.4 euros.The final result without components in it weighs about 6.6Kg (2.2 lb). There's no reason to buy cases :) The final price was 22.4 euros...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/05/a-diy-wood-pc-case-for-just-224-euros/Mouse Hitched a Ride on Toad. Torrential monsoon rains and lightning storms hit northern India hard. This mouse was caught in a flood, until he jumped on the back of some toad who gave him a ride... From the w...
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