(YouTube link) Imagine living in a place where your view changes constantly! The Rotating Technology Tower Company plans to build skyscrapers with floors that will rotate independently of each other. It's not just for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/rotating-skyscraper/// This is the story of birth, life, and death ... told with (unusual) beds!Cribs and CradlesMake sure your baby gets the right start with this $15,000 carriage crib!... or if that's too rich for you, how about the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/from-cradle-to-grave-the-story-of-life-told-with-beds/(YouTube link) The Silver Swan is an automaton built in 1773. Now housed at the Bowes Museum, it finds and eats a fish every day at noon and 3PM. The swan is life-size and is controlled by three separate clockwo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/the-silver-swan/Photo: Sonny Radio - via Look At ThisWhat do you think the dog is smiling about?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/can-a-dog-smile/With sky-high gas prices, we're all for carpooling but Abraham Gniwosch of Tottenham, London, took the concept to its extreme: he stuffed 13 people (mostly kids) in a Volvo stationwagon!In the back there were two wom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/man-stuffed-13-people-into-his-volvo/Freaking News has a neat photoshop contests where the faces of celebrities are mashed up with those of national figures on money. Some look so dead-on they're freaky!Link - via Blue's NewsPreviously on Neatorama: Money P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/celebrity-and-money-mashup/Photo: manicmaiden [Flickr] Flickr user manicmaiden created this super-awesome Dig Dug pillow for her brother's birthday. No word whether she used inflatable pillow for the Pooka monster ...Link - via Boing Boing Gadgets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/dig-dug-pillow/That's what women with long fingernails are complaining about the iPhone. Because the iPhone multi-touch screen works by detecting electrical conductance of your finger, fingernails or stylus don't work:She and other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/is-the-iphone-sexist/[pic of MC Paul Barman courtesy Flickr user lobstar28] Wired's music blog calls it an "experiment in Hip-Hop journalism." Crazy, cool hyper-literate Jewish rapper MC Paul Barman interviewed Wu-Tang Clan's RZA - and r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/mc-paul-barman-interviews-wu-tang-clans-rza/Yay! Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey game brings us this Laugh-Out-Loud cat strip by our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Thanks to Adam, funniest caption will win the original art (with the winning ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/caption-monkey-34-laugh-out-loud-cat/Discovery News features a "tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, [found] during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys." Do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/dont-leave-home-without-it/Gizmodo has published a video from their visit to LEGO's Memory Lane - a "secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured". ...the impressive view of the 4,720 Lego sets inside this lair. These...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/visiting-the-secret-lego-vault/Remember the "lost" Amazon tribe that got everyone excited? Well, it turns out that the existence of this "undiscovered tribe" had been known for nearly a century, and that the mission to photograph t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/lost-amazon-tribe-not-so-lost-after-all/I've been thinking of giving my old digital camera to my two-year-old daughter so she can learn how to take photos (and to see what things are interesting to toddlers) when Neatorama reader Daelan Wood sent me this: a li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/24/photography-by-a-3-year-old-boy/(Biggify here)Inspired by the soaring price of oil and the continued devaluation of the dollar, artist Brian Romero designed the bill for the increasingly-worthless dollar: the Zero Dollar Bill!If you look at the bigger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/zero-dollar-bill-by-brian-romero/I know Kevin Cornell from The Superest, a fantastic illustrator's one-upmanship he ran with Matthew Sutter (covered here and here previously on Neatorama).Kevin has recently written a very neat post on his Bearskinrug bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/an-artists-tools-pen-and-ink/Brayden Simms wrote for The Miami Herald's Heavy Thrifting, a column about saving money, when recently the newspaper decided to take a tip on saving money and laid him (and many other employees) off.But what's a little i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/blogger-paid-to-blog-being-laid-off-by-the-miami-herald/Here's a little cooking secret for ya: everything's better with bacon. Everything. Including chocolate chip cookies!Ooh, You Tasty Little Things blog has the recipe on how to make your own bacon chocolate chip cookies wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/bacon-chocolate-chip-cookie/Li Ching Yun had an advice for living a long life: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog" - and apparently, he followed his own advice, because Li died at a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/mans-secret-to-longevity-sit-like-a-tortoise-walk-like-a-pigeon-sleep-like-a-dog/"Now Showing" is an art exhibit at the Cosh Gallery in London where artists were given the task of creating their own interpretations of cult or classic film posters from the past. More than 40 creatives are di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/now-showing-movie-posters-re-imagined-by-artists/Neatorama reader Chet Gulland recommended this strange (and a little easy) little "Search Engine" spelling bee by Converse. It's a little experiment/viral ad using Google Adwords, where to get to the next round...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/search-engine-spelling-bee-by-converse/Some people never learn! This thief, James Milsom, 21, was filmed breaking into an undercover police car for the third time in four months. The police was familiar with his face, because before this latest heist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/third-times-the-charm-man-broke-into-undercover-police-car-again-and-again/Meet the CO2 gas-powered toaster, the highest popping toaster in the world and apparently some sort of art project by Freddie Yauner: http://www.freddieyauner.co.uk/index.php?/news/the-highest-popping-toaster-in-the-worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/highest-popping-toaster-in-the-world/Photo: Eric LafforgueFrench photographer Eric Lafforgue took this photo of a Hagener, a Tjos warrior/tribesman from Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. The Tjos people, who first saw a white man just 70 years ago, love to wea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/unusual-tribal-piercings-of-a-papua-new-guinea-tribesman/This animation of a beating heart by the people at Hybrid Medical Animation really blew me away! You can turn the "normal" opaque tissue into a refractory "glass" to see the inner workings of the valv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/heart-of-glass-amazing-animation-of-a-translucent-beating-heart/Meet Chris Coleson, a Richmond, Virginia, businessman who lost 86 pounds on the "McDonald's Diet""He said the idea was born out of his wife's skepticism at his ability to lose weight."I t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/the-mcdonalds-diet-man-lost-86-lb-eating-only-mcdonalds-food/I suck at golf, but here's a version that even I can be good at: appliance golf. Reuter's Oddly Enough blog explains:You know, it’s a lot like regular golf, but players use sledgehammers instead of golf clubs,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/new-destructive-sport-appliance-golf/According to a new book by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University in New York, and Vatican tour guide Roy Doliner, Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel:The c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/michelangelo-code-did-michelangelo-hide-secret-codes-in-the-sistine-chapel/This poster by Nicky Gibson can be downloaded here. I'd actually like to try my hand at sewing plush monsters. Can anyone recommend a good instructional book with patterns? (I have no sewing experience at all.)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/how-to-make-a-sock-monster-poster/
