Say goodbye to those bulky, unattractive astronaut spacesuit and say hello to MIT professor of aeronautics and engineering systems Dava Newman's sleek and sexy form-fitting spacesuit!Newman's prototype suit is a revo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/sleek-and-sexy-spacesuit-from-mit/Artist Laura Normandin's media of choice for her embroidery project is a little bit unusual: she used human hair!LinkPreviously on Neatorama: Knitting Things with Human Hair | Hair Shirt | Hair Wreath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/hair-embroidery/Chris and Kim Knight love to create costumes and props for themselves. For example, here are their Bender and Leela costumes. How they made Leela's mono-eye is interesting: The eyeball was originally a tap light. Whe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/bender-and-leela-fan-made-costumes/Neatorama reader Jennifer told us about Read Print, a free online library where you can read classic works of authors (that are out of copyright).The website is like Bartleby, another free online book source, but it's fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/read-print-a-free-online-library-for-literary-classics/How awesome is this: a foosball and coffee table combo, with oak panels, stainless steel frame and a glass top, handcrafted by Howard Bushell.It's only £3,800, a cheap price to pay for elegant tackiness! Perfect fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/luxurious-foosball-and-coffee-table-combo/An investigation by the LA Times has uncovered the creator of the UFO over Haiti video. YouTube member Barzolff814 admitted he was the creator of the videos known as UFO Haiti and UFO Dominican Republic. It took...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/ufo-haiti-revealed/Lui Hua suffers from a rare condition known as macrodactyly. When he was hospitalized in Shanghai last month his left thumb measured 10.2 inches and his index finger measured close to 12. From The Shanghai Daily:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/largest-hand-in-the-world/Asteroids are a peace-loving sentient race; they have endured decades of ruination at the hands of human spaceships. No more, for in Asteroids Revenge III, you play the role of an asteroid whose sole intent is to wip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/asteroids-revenge-iii/The novels of crime writer Agatha Christie [wiki] already immortalized on television, on film, on stage and in audio books, have now been adapted as comic strip editions. The roll-out will start during the annual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/agatha-christie-comic-strip/Want to know how to roll up a frying pan? Sure you do. Click Play or go to http://www.instructables.com/id/EIVXYL5F46WOEW7/ [video & step-by-step photographic instructions]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/how-to-roll-up-a-frying-pan/Word from the BBC is that a Japanese arcade game called Arm Spirit is being withdrawn from 150 game emporiums after three people broke their arms playing it! "We think that maybe some players get over-excited...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/arm-breaking-arcade-game-recalled/Some people take their dogs everywhere - but this guy takes the cake: he took his pet pug skydiving! Watch them jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet: hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/skydiving-pug/Remember the story where a girl was taken to the hospital for overdosing on espresso? Here's another story, this time it's Red Bull energy drink:A MAN whose heart stopped after he consumed eight Red Bull energy drink...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/overdosing-on-red-bull/This gorgeous wooden contraption is actually a 750 GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 ports and audio/microphone jacks. It is called "Shadow" (why?) by Suissa Computers - and it can be yours for a mere $875.Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/wooden-external-hard-disk/A recent poll found that one in four American adults didn't read a book at all in the past year:One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/one-in-four-americans-dont-read-a-book-at-all/Here's the holy trinity of Internet awesomeness: crazy Japanese TV show, a crazy American who specializes in belly flopping into a shallow pool of water, and YouTube.See Professor Splash jump from a height of 35 feet (10...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/diving-from-35-feet-into-12-inches-of-water/Becky at our pal mental_floss blog (awesome, btw, definitely check 'em out!) wrote this post challenging you to prove that you are a nerd:Ira Glass raised this question recently; or, perhaps, not so much rai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/are-you-a-nerd-prove-it/Neuroscientists Anya Hulbert and Yazhu Ling of University of Newcastle, UK, have finally cracked one of the top mysteries in science: why girls prefer pink. A University of Newcastle study found that women naturally...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/why-girls-prefer-pink/Neatorama reader Mark Altman told us about his website, where you can mix your own relaxing soundtrack using a collection of nature sounds (like bird song, rain, bonfire and more) to help you slee ... zzzzzLink - Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/22/diy-relaxing-soundtrack-of-natures-sounds/Heh. Standing upright on inlines is for wussies. Of course, the wipeouts redefine the meaning of "road rash", but still......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/hardcore-rollerblading/I like quick, no-brainer Flash game that you can play for 10 minutes or so as an office break - but finding these games can be a drag.Luckily, Vat19 Blog has compiled the Top 10 No-Download, No Install, Minimal Learning...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/10-online-games-with-minimal-learning-curve/If you thought Hoss was well-endowed, here's a (kind of sad) story for you from Florida:Joey Lynn Mendolia, 51, was charged with animal cruelty, abandonment and animals in distress after Palm Bay police and Brevard C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/pig-with-testicles-the-size-of-basketball/Here's the true story behind the ABC Hit Lost:In 1964, a dramatic TV series called "Lost on Gilligan's Island" was filmed. Since it was too dark for a 1960s audience, the series was retooled as a slapstick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/lost-on-gilligans-island/In 2001, the RoadBoat team failed to "row" across Canada in their human-powered land yacht, but they're going to try again (maybe they just need more encouragement! Go team go!). Anyhoo, the boat is kind of nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/roadboat/Here's a neat bumper sticker spotted by Flickr user Phantom Scribbler: symbols of the world's religions (and philosophical movements, I suppose) used to spell out "coexist"!Link to larger pic [Flickr] - via str...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/coexist-bumper-sticker/Found at Under Vhoorl's Shadow, a blog dedicated to all things Cthulhu - via Les Xénobiophiles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/squid-sand-art/Argentinian art collective DOMA created this giant yellow elephant inflatable "plushie" (that's its trunk, not its tail) for the Planet Prozess street art festival in Berlin.Link: Planet Prozess | More pics of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/giant-plushie-street-art/This is a short video clip from Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit about how to make your very own clay bunny suitable for frame-by-frame animation.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Hopscotch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/how-to-make-your-own-claymation-bunny-rabbit/We've posted about the cute pancake Flickr pool before, but they've got many more selections now.This one on the left is Dai Haruki's dog pancake.Check it out (again): Link [Flickr] - rediscovered via GoodyBlog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/21/more-cute-pancake/Your mom never made your lunch this cute! Here are some links of the cutest bento creations EVAR!Fashionably Cute (also, source for image to the left)Sushi Pictures [in Japanese, but with lots of pics]Crazy Beautiful Jap...
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