From Fun Reports, but not particularly fun for those involved:There is nothing funny about work in Arctic. And a group of Russians at an Arctic weather station felt it on their own back. They spent two nerv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/polar-bear-siege/The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, performed entirely on bicycle parts! You can download this and/or send it as a holiday greeting. Link -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/who-needs-a-glockenspiel/Theo Kamecke built his amazing sculptures using actual electronic circuit boards, using traditional marquetry woodworking techniques! See more of his artworks: http://www.theokamecke.com/main.html - via Jaf Project...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/theo-kameckes-electronic-circuit-board-art/This tinkertoy computer, on display at Boston's Museum of Science, actually plays tic-tac-toe! Retro Thing has the story: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/tinkertoy-computer-plays-tic-tac-toe/Here's how to train your cat to click a light switch: Hit play (yes, slow at first, but the cat got the hang of it!) or go to Link [YouTube] - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/how-to-train-a-cat-to-operate-a-light-switch/That's a moped armed with a 75 mm recoilless cannon, called the ACMA Troupes Aeról Portées Mle. 56, used by (who else?) the French Military!Deployed with their airborne forces, this was essentially a mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/secret-of-french-military-prowess-armed-vespa/Meet Gerard Langevin, a 65-year-old Quebec man who is the only living Canadian without a pulse:Dr. Renzo Cecere implanted the “Heartmate II” mechanical heart into Gerard Langevin in an three-hour operatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/16/man-without-a-pulse-goes-on-living/Brandon Erickson drew caricatures of Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, and Jack Black (as well as other celebrities) using Wii's Mii feature. Link - via The Revolution Lifestyle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/15/celebrity-mii/Remember the Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls that would eat children’s fingers along with the supplied food? They made this list, along with the atomic energy lab shown, and eight other toys you should never have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/15/the-ten-most-dangerous-playthings-of-all-time/1323 BCE: Egypt's King Tut is entombed alongside a wealth of jewelry, furniture, lamps, jars - and 145 loincloths. He's also entombed with over 400 statues of servants meant to clean said undies, just in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/15/a-very-brief-secret-history-of-underwear/Long before CGI, there was Ray Harryhausen: hit play or go to Link [YouTube] to see a compilation of every creature he had made using stop-motion animation. | A full list of his creatures - via Fazed....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/ray-harryhausen-stop-motion-master/Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is set to throw gigantic bags of money at its bankers, traders and stockbrokers this year - lavishing them with more than $16.5 billion in bonus loot, the most ever doled out by a Wall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/i-need-a-raise-how-about-622000/A new ladies room is scheduled to open next week in London. But this is no ordinary rest stop. Admission to WC 1 will be £5! Operators think the experience will be worth the price to use the most luxurious facilitie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/pricy-powder-room/Apparently humans have (effectively) killed off another species:The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/white-baiji-dolphin-now-functionally-extinct/Neatorama reader Gary wrote: Not only can you download Elmer's debut CD of holiday organ tunes of questionable quality - "Christmas Dinner for Two," but you have to read his musical bio. Quite funny.*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/elmer-vanlennens-christmas-organ-music/What does a flaming laptop look like? Here's a setup of one:To jump start the reaction, we artificially forced the battery pack into an unstable state. But the initial battery cell reaction and the on-going chain reactio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/exploding-laptop-battery/Apparently, being the world's tallest man means saving dolphins! Here's what Bao Xishun, a 7 foot 9 inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, China, did:The world's tallest man helped save two dolphins in China by reaching...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/worlds-tallest-man-saved-dolphins-by-reaching-into-their-stomachs/Here's this week's collaboration with What is it? blog. Guess what this weird looking device is.No prize this week (sorry! Ran out of shirts), but guess anyhow, ok?It's Placido's Disc for Astigmatism: Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/what-is-it-game-4/Lasse Gjertsen, the 22 year old Norwegian video producer, is feeling the effects of his internet fame as the job offers roll in. The story of his recent notoriety is chronicled in a Wall Street Journal interview, as w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/interview-with-lasse-gjertsen/These are images from the Siemens 64 slice CT scanner. It's the world’s first CT scanner able to take 192 images per second. It's really a breakthrough in medical technology. It will render extremely detailed 4d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/14/64-slice-ct-scanner/"Feed the control freak inside with the fastest adventure flight in the world" This "plane" is connected to an overhead suspension point. All I needed to hear is that you’re in charge of the throttle and steerin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/fly-by-wire/With all the hype over hydrogen fuel cells (still not very feasible), Denny Klein has been silently developing a unique way to generate a gas called HHO. It has the benefits of burning hotter than hydrogen while main...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/water-energy/A German firm has developed a spray-on condom. The liquid condom comes in an aerosol can that you spray onto the organ in question. A few seconds later, the liquid solidifies into the familiar latex and forms a tight s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/spray-on-condom-from-liquid-rubber-to-sweet-love-in-one-second/NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years. Link via NASA...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/water-still-flowing-on-mars/Judit Fabian / University of UtahBioengineers from the University of Utah have developed a "molecular condom" that women can use to protect themselves against the AIDS virus:These images reflect how the sub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/molecular-condom-helps-protect-against-hiv/From the website:In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Found at Popular-Pics - via growabrain....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/first-computer-with-hard-disk-5-mb-weighed-1-ton/The Dolmette is a bike powered with 24 chainsaw engines, made by the german company Dolmar.Here's a video clip of the chainsaw-powered bike: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Dolmette Website - via Fazed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/chainsaw-powered-motorcycle/From The Book of List, which is packed with amazing lists like this one: 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names.Columella Nasi: The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.Link - via Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/13/things-you-didnt-know-have-names/Tal Drori created this Coniglio Hat (coniglio means "rabbit" in Italian) with a built in earphone for listening to music. When the ears are down, the music player automatically turns on. When the ears are up, t...
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