An excellent video clip of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station, with in-depth commentary by one of the scientests currently on board. (Can someone tell me who it is...? He's very knowledgeabl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/video-footage-of-the-aurora-borealis-from-space/No, this post isn't about a guy doing bike stunt - instead, look at the bike itself. See anything odd? Like the tires? That's the SweetskinZ tires, invented by Yann Mellet, have full-color graphics and light-reflective p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/colorful-sweetskinz-bike-tires/This fantastic water sculpture by William Pye is called Charybdis, and it's located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK.Why, there's even a YouTube clip:Links: William Pye's website | YouTube Link - Thanks Aberron!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/charybdis-william-pyes-vortex-water-sculpture/Neatorama reader Kiera suggested this website, MyCatHatesYou.com:A hilarious group of "sour-faced" kitties with very appropriate captions under each picture. People send in pictures of their pissed-off or j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/my-cat-hates-you-a-compendium-of-sour-faced-kitties/The concept and gameplay of Armed Invasion is simple: repel the armed invasion with your gun turret. After each level, you can upgrade your turret's capabilities, but the enemies also get a lot faster.This is one fun gam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/fun-flash-game-armed-invasion/2Spare has a list of 10 Strangest Inventions. For example, here's a patent by Charlotte E. Blonsky (Patent No. 3,216,423): an apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child using centrifugal force!In their patent ap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/weird-inventions-giving-birth-by-centrifugal-force-and-more/According to The Scotsman, scientists are confident that robot nurses will be assisting with the care of patients within 3 years. While there's no immediate plans to have them performing surgery, they "will perf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/coming-soon-robotic-nurses/A land-based laser that can target incoming warheads and projectiles: Suddenly I'm remembering the Eighties-era "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative again...and how everyone mocked it at the time. Hmm......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/skyguard-laser/It's the final Death Star attack scene, played out using only hands! Link [youtube video] - via TV in Japan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/hand-made-star-wars/This involves no sleight-of-hand or trickery, just a basic knowledge of geometry. It probably doesn’t hurt that the people he is betting against have been drinking already. Push play or go to YouTube. (via Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/how-to-win-free-beer-using-geometry/A Star Wars fan converted his Honda Del Sol into an X-Wing A-Wing Starfighter. http://blog.triggerla.com/?p=128 -via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/car-converted-into-an-x-wing-starfighter/From the Ridiculous Real Estate department: an 11x7 flat in London is for sale. Seventy-seven square feet of living space, needs wiring and cleanup, asking price £170,000. Thats £2,209, or $4,327 per square foot!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/cozy-apartment/Anita of Say No to Crack found the details of this "Pig." It's a British kid show by Whalley Range All Stars performed inside an inflatable pig - to watch it, you have to put on a little piglet tails and assume...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/its-a-pig-show/See what happens when an oil rig accidentally drilled down into a salt mine underneat the lake (who pulled out the drain plug?): Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Lake Peigneur [wiki] - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/the-disappearing-lake-peigneur/Chinese doctors at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World have just succeeded in performing their first whale surgery: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/whale-surgery/Leave it to the Japan's fire engine maker Morita Corporation to make a kitchen fire extinguisher in the shape of flowers:The extinguisher’s ‘petals’ are used to put out fires in pans, and to ensure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/fire-fighting-flowers/The idea is so simple it's brilliant: this photo tissue box lets you put a photo of someone you love "regurgitating" tissues!Ah, low-brow humor ... Link - via Random Good StuffSee also: Moai Tissue Dispenser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/photo-tissue-box/After you're done with all those tissues, toss 'em in this knight's helmet wastebasket!http://www.designtoscano.com/jump.jsp?itemID=5575&itemType=PRODUCT&path - via Spluch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/knight-helmet-wastebasket/I just found out that my Viking Name is Óleifr Dogchaser, and that the Vikings will let me on their boat if they need ballast. Maybe.Find out your viking name here: Link - via Miss Cellania.The pic to the left is,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/23/whats-your-viking-name/How about flying down a mountainside at breakneck speed, with only a cable and pulley keeping you from crashing into the treacherous ground...? Hit Play or go to YouTube to watch. I'm mildly acrophobic, and acts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/bungie-jumping-is-for-wussies/Today'sCellar / Neatorama Image of the Week is the amazing story of Rochom P'ngieng, a Cambodian girl who disappeared at the age of eight and re-appeared now, twenty years later, after living all that time in the deep Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/cambodian-jungle-girl/This Moving Picture Machine paper model was originally put out by Disney and Pepsodent in 1938. It's now available as a free download at the Disney Experience: http://disneyexperience.com/models/movie_machine.html | Phot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/movie-machine-paper-model/Max Chen built this shopping cart soapbox car for the 1999 Sandhill Challenge: First made for the 1999 Sandhill Challenge, then adapted to the more dangerous and curvy SF Illegal Soapbox Society. Clocked at 49 mph, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/max-chens-soapbox-car/Coat of Arms aren't just for aristocrats anymore ... here's Swedish artist Mattias Adolfsson's cute Heraldic Shopping List, which reflects modern day's shopping needs in a coat of arms! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/modern-day-heraldic-shopping-list/Incidentally, coat of arms can be quite intricate and beautiful. Here's one from the Austro-Hungarian Empire [wiki], which was a dual monarchy (1867 - 1918) born out of a compromise between the ruling Habsburg dynasty an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/austro-hungarian-empires-coat-of-arms/Autonomous Solutions' robot Chaos can traverse just about any kinds of terrain thanks to its unique "tracks" (that flail crazily when it goes about its business!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via SlashGe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/chaos-robot/This futuristic glass encased art museum, the largest in Japan, houses only temporary exhibits. From the article: The museum's main peculiarity is that it will hold no collection of its own, making it the world's l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/futuristic-japanese-museum/Actually, this Burton Audex Motorola Cargo Jacket is so much more than that - in addition to having an integrated speaker so you can listen to your MP3s (and graciously share the music with everyone around you) while sno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/wearable-technology-the-boombox-jacket/Le Merle (the Blackbird) is a clever animation directed by Norman McLaren in 1958, based on a French-Canadian song where the bird loses parts of its body, then regain three-fold.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Ras...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/norman-mclarens-le-merle/
