Bagger 288.
The world’s biggest moving machine is Bagger 288, a giant trencher or bucket excavator. It is 300 meters long and weighs 45,500 tons! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/19/bagger-288/Archive for November 2006
A Wooden Laptop Design
Seems like a tipewriter from a hundred years ago but it's got DVD rewriter, strong processor and all those features you would like in a luxury laptop... Photo Gallery - Link - Via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/19/a-wooden-laptop-design/Talking Jesus Dolls.
Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Co. (which is based in Valencia, California, not Beverly Hills) got tired of manufacturing teddy bears, and decided to make talking a foot-tall Jesus and Moses dolls.The company also wanted to do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/talking-jesus-dolls/Ann P. Smith's Robots from Scrap Parts.
We've featured Ann P. Smith's robots made from scrap parts before, but many of you probably still haven't seen it, check it out: Link - rediscovered via smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/ann-p-smiths-robots-from-scrap-parts/Mexican Loteria Cards.
SomethingSoWrong has a set of Mexican Loteria cards, which Wikipedia says is like Bingo, but uses images instead of numbers and pinto beans as markers.If you match four pictures in a row, yell out "Loteria!" an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/mexican-loteria-cards/Japanese Bunny.
Just too cute not to share. Via Flickr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/japanese-bunny/The 25 top gaming tatoos ever
If you're bored of your body and need some modding, why don't you bring some of that time you spend on videogaming to your new tatoos? http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=1592...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/the-25-top-gaming-tatoos-ever/Painter's Tape Blue Audi S4.
What happens when you let your friends drive your Audi S4 from New York to Seattle? First, they have a little fun with those blue painter's tape ... Link - via Fazed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/painters-tape-blue-audi-s4/Andy Warhol's Chairman Mao Set Record Price.
A Hong Kong real-estate tycoon just bought Andy Warhol's portrait of Chairman Mao for a record price of $17.4 million.http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/11/17/297403/Mao_portrait_auction_sets_record.htmI wonder how mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/andy-warhols-chairman-mao-set-record-price/Joseph Barbaccia's Self Portrait in Crayon.
As you can see, Joseph Barbaccia made his self-portrait using thousands of crayons!http://www.paradisestudio.com/crayons.htm - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/joseph-barbaccias-self-portrait-in-crayon/Spaniard falls 134 stair steps to enter Guinness
A Sevillian called JoaquÃn Ortega commited the (really, absolutelly, more than) stupid quest of falling 134 steps to enter the Guinnes World Records Book. The stairway was of about 400 steps but he only runed down to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/spaniard-falls-134-stair-steps-to-enter-guinness/Crazy! Cat Gave Birth to Puppies?
REUTERS/Edison Vara From the website Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, said her cat Mimi had given birth to the three puppies as well as three kittens, which did not survive. And she, her husband Rogerio Jorge da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/crazy-cat-gave-birth-to-puppies/A new way to multiply
There are another good tricks, but this is really impressive. I think you're doing the same but with a graphic trick so you don't have to remember the basic results, intead you count the intersections of the drawn lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/18/a-new-way-to-multiply/This Is Not a Jellyfish
It's a glass sculpture, part of a collection of amazingly lifelike glass sea creatures created by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka in the 1880's. In that era, according to the Design Museum: Aquaria and natural h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/this-is-not-a-jellyfish/The lovely kissing disease GIANT microbe
They are furry microbes in a perfect hubbing size. Some are really lovely like the Kissing disease in the image. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/the-lovely-kissing-disease-giant-microbe/Presidential Oddities.
George Washington was a consistent disappointment to his mother, Mary. She complained frequently to anyone who would listen that he was lax in supporting her and, much to his embarrassment, once begged t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/presidential-oddities/What are Prince Charles' Medals For?
The Prince of Wales last saw active service 30 years ago, so what are his collection of 31 medals for? 1: Order of Merit, civil version2: GCB3: Queen's Service Order (New Zealand)4: Queen's Coronation medal5: Queen's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/what-are-prince-charles-medals-for/Nagi Noda
Nagi Noda is a video designer who has been called “one of the most influential woman in Japan.†She was the brains behind the Poodle Exercise video entitled "FITNESS VIDEO for being appraised as an EX-FAT G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/nagi-noda/Twin Ritual.
From ScienceShots: Anthropologists working in eastern Austria have uncovered the bodies of three infants buried by hunter gatherers 27,000 years ago. Two appear to be twins because they were buried togethe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/twin-ritual/You Call That a Knife? THIS is a Knife!
From The Smoking Gun:In a Crocodile Dundee-like moment, a Florida convenience store clerk repelled a machete-wielding robber by pulling out her own machete from behind the store's counter, a faceoff captured by a sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/you-call-that-a-knife-this-is-a-knife/Rakku Shoe Wheel.
Tired of having no storage for his family's shoes, Danilo Torro thought that there has to be a better way. And so, the Rakku Shoe Wheel (holds 30 pairs of shoes!) was born: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/17/rakku-shoe-wheel/Circoripopolo Goes Artistique.
Sit back and watch what the the Belgian comic duo Circoripopolo do to your browser. It will be OK! Entertaining, even. http://www.circoripopolo.be/comicduo/ -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/circoripopolo-goes-artistique-2/"Reconstruction"
Lewis Tardy assembled this remarkable sculpture, called "Reconstruction," from "titanium craniomaxillo facial reconstruction plates and screws from Stryker Orthopedics and some scrap metal." Via Medgadget...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/reconstruction/No Dentist? Try Superglue!
Gordon Cook (yes, British) explains his unique brand of DIY dentistry:Gordon Cook, 55, has used the bizarre "DIY dentistry" technique on a loose crown for the last three years - with each fresh application...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/no-dentist-try-superglue/"Kaleidoscoped" Photo.
Found at apfelstrudel - Thanks Wie-Yi!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/kaleidoscoped-photo/The Talking Robot Bank.
Kind of like the shiny piggy bank we featured before on Neatorama, but with the ability to "urge you with encouraging phrases to meet your savings goal"http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__GC0...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/the-talking-robot-bank/Football During the Great 1950 Thanksgiving Storm.
In 1950, one of the heaviest snowstorm ever, hit Ohio hard (20 to 30 inches of snow, winds to 40 mph, snow drifts up to 25 feet deep).But that's not enough to stop the Ohio State - Michigan football game. Not with the Bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/football-during-the-great-1950-thanksgiving-storm/Broken Voice Comics.
Neatorama reader David AJ Berner wrote about his website Broken Voice Comics:These comics are designed to appeal to grown-ups [with] solid stories with credible characters, interesting set-ups and (for those who like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/broken-voice-comics/David Mach's Matchhead Sculptures.
David Mach made this awesome sculpture of a rhino's head using thousands of matchheads! http://www.davidmach.com/works/rhino.asp?status=3...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/11/16/david-machs-matchhead-sculptures/
