Activate is a new drink that stores vitamins and herbs as powder in a chamber inside the cap. When you twist the cap clockwise, a small plastic blade cuts the seal in the chamber allowing the ingredients to drop into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/avtivate/(YouTube link) Turn the switch on, and the hand comes out to turn it off. That’s all this machine does! And you can have one of your very own. Link -via Boing Boinguseless machine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/the-leave-me-alone-box/Just plain 'ol cat cuteness. Easy to do...fun to watch. Link: YouTubeFunny, cats, Cute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/kitty-rhythm/(YouTube link) Yes, there were videos taken at the world record Mentos/Diet Coke demonstration in Leuven, Belgium. There are several on YouTube already, but none that give you a great overall view (yet)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/world-record-cokementos-video/Svetlana Singh is 7 feet 2 inches tall. She s the tallest woman in India. Her husband, Sanjay, is 6 feet 6 inches. Their ten-month-old son Karan is already 3 feet 2 inches tall! His mother says he eats twenty times a day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/big-baby-boy-takes-after-parents/I've always been curious about stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. There must be a fascinating robot underneath the fur and fluff, right? Surely the robot hiding in the bear's clothing, vestim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/theres-a-robot-beneath-the-fluff/Ed Price, who covers the New York Yankees for New Jersey's The Star Ledger, noticed that there's an odd sign in the dugout of the White Sox's stadium: "NO BOTTLED WATER ON THE BENCH." (Even in the humid Chicago...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/white-sox-banned-bottled-water-in-the-dugout-must-protect-gatorades-image/The Mosquito is an electronic "anti-teen loitering" device that emits an annoying sound akin to a mosquito buzzing in your ear that can only be heard by teenagers and people in their 20s (who still have sensiti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/anti-teen-loitering-device-is-it-torture/Ever since I read The Other Boleyn Girl a couple years ago, I've been strangely obsessed with the Tudors. I read all of the Philippa Gregory books in that series and just finished up The Last Wife of Henry...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/six-rulers-who-didnt-spend-much-time-in-office/Mathematician Michael S. Schneider saw a wave form of the well-known drum sequence known as the Amen Break. It’s a drum 5.2 second sequence performed by Gregory Cylvester Coleman of The Winstons and has been sampled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/the-amen-break-and-the-golden-ratio/If you have an extra USB port on your computer, someone will sell you something to plug into it. Cracked has a list of ten real products that are good for a laugh, if nothing else! Pictured is the USB Eye Massager. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/the-10-most-baffling-computer-gadgets-money-can-buy/About 1,500 students participated in a Mentos/Diet Coke demonstration in Leuven, Belgium. Each wore a blue poncho and added Mentos mints to a bottle of Diet Coke for a simultaneous explosion! A new world record has been...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/record-cokementos-explosion/Yipee! It's time for our weekly collaboration with What is it? blog - can you guess what this strange tool above is for?Place your guess in the comment section - you're playing for fun and bragging rights only this week...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/24/what-is-it-game-59/In 1994, New York University physics professor Alan Sokal made headlines when he published his article "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." in the sociological quarte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/postmodern-essay-generator/Anagram time! In today’s lunchtime quiz at mental_floss, you’re given a made-up name, and you try to rearrange one word in that name to match the other word in that name. You don't know which word is scrambled, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/the-name-game/Mark Rayner of the Skwib blog and author of the novel "The Amadeus Net" (plot: turns out that Wolfgang Amaeus Mozart is immortal and has been making a living by selling "lost" works of Mozart!) has a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/vintage-ads-of-fictional-futures/That's a stainless steel chaise lounge created by P. Cazzaniga for MDF Italia - sure it looks sleek and futuristic, but do you think it's comfortable to lie down on one?Link | Original Website (in Italian, click on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/stainless-steel-chaise-lounge/If you watch many of the big-budget superhero movies, you’ll begin to notice how many stylistic and plot devices they have in common, especially when there are sequels and more sequels. With millions of dollars on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/8-pointless-laws-all-comic-book-movies-follow/Don’t try to make friends with a cassowary! The Guinness Book of World Records named it the world’s most dangerous bird. The Cassowary lives in the rain forests of Australia and New Guinea and are actually pre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/the-worlds-most-dangerous-bird/Lisa Harrell changed her postal route Monday because she had an Express Mail package to deliver. She was at the proper address at 11AM when a one-year-old baby girl fell out of a half-opened second story window! "I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/postal-carrier-catches-falling-baby/The Museum of Unworkable Devices is one of those sites everyone on the internet should visit at least once. This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/the-museum-of-unworkable-devices/Im not sure if this is filmed in real time but if it is, the pressure must've been intense. This video is apparently part of an instructional video for employees learning how to clean and vent cars. Link: LiveLeak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/railroad-tank-implosion/(YouTube link) Lex 10 created this joyful yet short video with the music of Cream. I drive a 12 year old Pontiac convertible to my place of work, so I get quite the panoramic view. I was waiting for the light to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/23/glad/Thanks to the good folks at Technorati, I'm going to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (just for the day). I used to live in the Bay Area, so it'll be nice to walk around the old neighborhood again and see family. If...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/goin-to-web-20-expo/(YouTube link) This neat little parlor trick using milk, food coloring, and dishwashing liquid will be perfect for my daughter’s birthday party. It’s probably a classic, but I’ve never seen it before. Don’t dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/the-milk-trick/Brazilian priest Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli embarked Sunday on a 465 mile journey across Brazil using thousands of helium party balloons to lift and transport him. Unfortunately, he was blown off course and his grou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/brazilian-priest-takes-to-the-air-attached-to-helium-party-balloon-disappears/(YouTube link) In response to a recent story about the deaths of two bloggers, Barely Political did an undercover expose of the seamy underworld of the blogging business. Bloggers are subjected to horrific conditions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/blogging-business-exposed/Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa compared the feet of people from different cultures plus 2,000 year old skeletons. The skeletons had the healthiest feet (at least when they were alive),...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/shoes-are-ruining-our-feet/Cog Factory is a logic game that seems simple, but it’s NOT easy! You must sort the different colored cogs into receptacles, keeping the same colors together. Get three in a row and they disappear. Use the left and r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/cog-factory/The Kanamara Matsuri (aka "Festival of the Steel Phallus") is a Japanese health and fertility rite dating back as far as 300 years. During the festival, well-wishers literally worship massive, portable representations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/22/japanese-festival-features-fat-phalluses-for-fertility-fortune-and-fun/
