Researchers at the Akishima Laboratories in Japan developed a device that uses waves to write on water:The device, called AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), consists of 50 water wave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/07/writing-on-water/For all of you fishermen (and fisherwomen!) out there: Ray Troll's fish art - this one above is called "Cardsharks": Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/ray-trolls-fin-art/Such as awesome photo, I don't know how Swiss photographer Pierre Pallez did it:It took five bulbs before I managed to snap the exact moment when the filament goes up in smoke, so I was pretty pleased when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/pierre-pallez-photos/What do you get if you cross a quad-bike with a Segway? This concept vehicle called Centaur: Concept Centaur combines proprietary dynamic stabilization technology with advanced propulsion and suspension sy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/segway-centaur/Science geeks with luxuriant flowing mane rejoice! Now you can join the hair club for scientists, only from the Annals of Improbable Research (the people behind the Ig Nobel Prize, where dubious scientific ach...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/luxuriant-flowing-hair-club-for-scientists/Taking the saying "when life gives you lemon, make lemonade" to heart, Sandi Fontaine took advantage of the heat wave to bake cookies for her co-workers - on the dash of her car!With temperatures...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/hot-enough-to-bake-cookies-in-your-car/British Royal Marines show us their fearsome naval prowess. This explains why the sun finally sets on the British empire...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/how-not-to-conduct-an-amphibious-assault/In 1965, William "Wild Bill" Gelbke built his own bike called "Roadog". The ginormous bike was 17-feet long and weighed 3,280 pounds! Four hydrolic rams were needed to park the bike...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/roadog/[http://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA]Rock band OK Go [wiki]'s music video for their song Here It Goes Again looks like fun. With threadmills.Actually, there's more to this than just cool threadmill treadmill dancing choreo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/ok-gos-here-it-goes-again-threadmill-dancing/From the website:This undated photo released by Allen Snyder, shows a photo of his garden gnome which he received with two others in a letter Wednesday, July 19, 2006, with a Pittsburgh postmark. The 14-in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/a-gnome-mystery/Jason Strachan took this photo (you have to see the full image, this smaller one above doesn't do it justice) in La Crique, Sainte-Marie, Madagascar.Absolutely stunning: Link | Gallery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/jason-strachans-photography/Flickr user earthdog has this Jedi in the Box photo, taken at the San Diego Comic Con 2005. Link [flickr]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/star-wars-jack-in-the-box-jedi-in-the-box/From the website: It's not the record that spins. The world's smallest self running record player doesn't need turntables but churns out music by driving round the record with a needle that is underneath t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/06/vinyl-killer/From the website:Curiously Strong transforms 250 individually passive objects into a single living machine. The piece plays on the sequential movement of a typical domino chain and is implemented with actu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/jessica-banks-and-amanda-parkes-curiously-strong-robot-altoids/Meet Julian Pavone, the world's youngest drummer:While standing only 31” tall and weighing in at 27 pounds, 16 month old Julian is certainly a star in the making. Playing the drums while sittin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/worlds-youngest-drummer/As always, Texas is safe from terrorists, thanks to the redneck anti-terrorist training camp there!Found at Dave's World Famous Redneck Photos | Previously on Neatorama: Redneck Hot Tubs | Redneck Yacht | Redn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/redneck-anti-terrorist-training-camp/Check out IO2Technology's Heliodisplay, which can display images in the air like R2D2 in Star Wars. At $20K, it sure is an expensive toy right now ...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via blog.PCNews Technolo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/display-video-on-air-like-star-wars-with-heliodisplay/Bruce Shapiro is my new robotics hero: he built this awesome sand machine called a stratograph, where he used sand to amazingly detailed paint imagesAnd another machine called Sisyphus III to "plot"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/bruce-shapiros-art-machines/Yep, that scary old closet really do have monsters...Check out more whimsically fantastic artworks from illustrators Leong Wan Kok and pH Khor at their website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/1000tentacles/Scientists used X-Ray fluorescence to discover hidden text written by Archimedes:"When the X-rays hit an iron atom it emits a characteristic radiation, it glows," says Dr Bergmann. "Wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/eureka-hidden-archimedes-text-revealed/I've always wondered how the space shuttle gets strapped on those rocket boosters - turns out NASA's got one gigantic shuttle harness!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/shuttle-harness/Married to the Sea's David Drew and Natalie must win image caption contests all the time! Check out their website for more irreverent (and sometimes risqué) comics: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/married-to-the-sea/Fisherman Jeff Brown caught a crab, later named Claudette, with three fully functional claws!The aquarium believes Claudette's ability to re-generate lost limbs became confused and, rather than repla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/crab-with-three-claws/Something's weird going on in England:A third of male fish in English rivers are changing sex due to 'gender-bending' pollution, alarming research shows.Experts say female hormones from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/2859/A fantastic image by photographer Tibor Foldes, found here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/match-strikes-a-pose/Katja designed and made these chocolate-shaped rings that look good enough to eat! Too bad they're not made from real chocolate...Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/05/katja-hunolds-chocolate-ring/This very cool Valentine's Day card is made by artist Marian Bantjes, who will probably sell it to you if you ask nicely: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/04/marian-bantjes-true-heart/Ever got an ice spike when making ice using those ice cube trays? Ever wonder why they happen and how to make more of them? Ken Libbrecht of Caltech has the answer:To see your own ice spikes, make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/04/ice-spike/From the website:These bags are the product of a local Los Angeles designer teaming up with a women's group in the Philippines. Most of these juice pouches are collected from the elementary schools a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/04/bag-made-from-juice-boxes/Oh no! The ancient curse of "no one will talk to you at parties!"Thanks Strange de Jim!...
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