Neatorama reader Sharon Glidden sent us this YouTube clip, which is amazing for two reasons: First, they've got a pet bobcat named Ginger. Second, the bobcat has taught herself to use the toilet (too bad she can't flush....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/pet-bobcat-knows-how-to-use-toilet/Can robot use emotions to do a better job? Mehdi Dastani and colleagues at Utrech University in the Netherlands are "giving" robot 22 artificial emotions like anger, hope, fear and joy, to see if "feelings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/can-emotion-help-robot-do-a-better-job/Sang Won Sung created these wonderfully bizarre toy/art - check out the rest of his creations here: Link - via Why not?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/strange-toys-by-sang-won-sung/This strange USB-connected lamp called Think Light glows brighter and changes color as you type faster and faster! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/usb-light-glows-as-you-type/I just love this photo by Jennifer Zwick titled The Reader, 2005 - if children can be inspired to read like this, perhaps we won't have the embarrassing recent poll result showing a quarter of Americans didn't r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/jennifer-zwicks-photography-the-reader/Raymond Crowe, an Australian, offers a captivating shadow puppetry performance with the music “What a Wonderful World†playing in the background. Hit play or go to Link [Metacafe]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/wonderful-shadow-puppetry/Word from the scientists is that redheads may become extinct as early as 2060! The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world's population has natural red hair, creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/redheads-face-extinction/Many amazing creations in this year's "ExtremeTech Case Mod Contest", some that we've seen on Neatorama’s Ultimate Case Mod Page. Featured above is the Atlas Mech Mod. http://www.extremetech.com/slidesho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/case-mod-contest-2007/This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange device - can you guess what it is? More clues at the What is it? blog.Place your guess in the comment section, but please post no UR...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/what-is-it-game-34/I was a sucky video game player, so many times I never get to the first boss, let alone the final boss. Luckily, Pixel-Heroes has a gallery screen shots of various bosses of many retro games.http://www.pixel-heroes.de/bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/retro-video-games-boss-gallery/Los Angeles Pop Art created this poster of the 1972 classic The Godfather out of the entire script of the movie (using a technique called "micrography," where tiny words are fashioned to create an imag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/the-godfather-poster-made-from-entire-script-of-the-movie/Japanese architect Shigeru Ban designed this "paper bridge" made out of cardboard tubes:Built half a mile from the Pont du Gard -- a section of ancient Roman bridge classed as a UN World Heritage site -- Shiger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/paper-bridge/How awesome is this: a (silver) shrunken head necklace by jewelry maker Tobias Wistisen.Link [Flash] - via Phantasmaphile...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/shrunken-head-necklace-by-tobias-wistisen/Bordbar takes original airplane food trolleys, gussy 'em up a bit and sell the recycled trolley as hip storage for your home.Link - via Inhabitat (more pic there)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/bordbar-recycled-airplane-trolley/Bruce Gray created this awesome 25" x 29" x43" Swiss cheese made out of aluminum! Link | Other neat sculptures by Bruce - via Boing Boing and Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/hunk-of-swiss-cheese-made-out-of-metal/Alie Ward's The Dichotomy Series is a set of paintings that illustrate witty word play, like the difference between righteous and righteous above.http://www.curiology.com/paintings.php (I quite like the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/righteous-v-righteous-by-alie-ward/Image: Richard W.M. Jones [Wikipedia]That's a life-size model of a robot from Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky [wiki], located at the Ghibli Museum [wiki] in Japan (the museum features the anime works of Studio Ghibli,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/castle-in-the-sky-robot-at-ghibli-museum-in-japan/After my previous post, I needed something a bit lighter-hearted. I figured I'd share this with the rest of the readers as well, since it evidently didn't sit well with some folks. So here's some silliness instead: C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/lighter-fare/It sure looks like the Death Star from Star Wars, but this one really IS a moon! Mimas is one of Saturn’s innermost moons. It has a crater 80 miles wide named Hershel. In this photo, taken from the Cassini orbit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/space-imitates-star-wars/This googly-eyed glass squid {wiki} looks like it was designed by a cartoonist! A team of 31 researchers recently explored the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and found this and other strange specimens of marine life. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/silly-squid/Anita Renfroe condensed everything a mom says during the day into a song. So true -I say all those things! Push play or go to YouTube. Link to Renfroe's website. -via Old Horsetail Snake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/total-momsense/In the latest version of Google Earth you'll get your own personal planetarium. Zoom in to distant galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, explore the constellations, see the planets in motion, witness...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/google-stars/A new addition to Google Earth is bringing the sky and stars closer to the people. Sky in Google Earth also enables users to see distant galaxies, constellations, and planets. The software uses a library of images fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/google-earths-new-virtual-telescope/A sequel to the popular flash game where you as a dolphin perform various tricks. Link - via Jay is Games...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/dolphin-olympics-2-flash-game/The world's oldest father has done it again, fathering a child for at least the 21st time, at the age of 90. Indian farmer Nanu Ram Jogi, who is married to his fourth wife, boasts he does not want to stop, and pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/worlds-oldest-father/I've spent all morning trying to come up with a post title, and I failed. There are no words that even come close to the sheer brick wall of mixed emotions I experienced after watching this. I think this manages...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/i-cant-even-title-this-post/The good people of Sophos, a popular security company, are warning users of social networks of the dangers of allowing strangers to gain access to their online profiles. Sophos fabricated a Facebook profile for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/the-sophos-facebook-id-probe/Buster the rare white Bengal tiger was abandoned by his mother at the West Midland Safari Park, and is being fostered by the park’s veterinary nurse and her four cats. Now eight weeks old and 17.5 pounds, Buster...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/buster-the-bengal/You’ve been to a movie theater at one time or another and felt jarred by a character’s vocal accent that was so innapropriate for the film that it ruined the suspension of disbelief for you. Deputydog has a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/worst-accents-on-film/The painted skateboards above are artist Jeremy Fish's "Dead Rapper Series." Check out more of his skateboard art and wonderfully whimsical paintings here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/jeremy-fishs-dead-rapper-skateboard-art/
