W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What Is It? blog - this week's mystery object is this gun: can you tell us what it is for? (It has a very specific function)Place your guess in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/what-is-it-game-91/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-opyE2AeU][YouTube - Link]When Samsung decided to use bunnies, kittens, puppies, and even a hedgehog to promote their new cell phone, what they got is this: video clips with cute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/how-to-use-cute-animals-in-advertisements/Bill Zeman's daughter is the Tiny Art Director. She tells him what to draw and then tells him just exactly how much she hates it. Bill has been recording her comments and posting them with his art since she was two and a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/tiny-art-director/Photo: OneCelledCreature [Flickr] From the distance, this looks just like your average missing dog poster, but take a closer look ...- via OneCelledCreature [Flickr]From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.poster, P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/have-you-seen-this-dog/At Warrington Bank Quay Station in the UK there are designated places for travelers to kiss, and not to kiss. Taxi drivers complained about kissing couples taking too long in the drop-off zone, so Colin Daniels, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/no-kissing-zone/Do you have trouble finding your keys? Can't remember names and faces? The BBC News reports on a study to be presented to the American Academy of Neurology that concludes that people who keep themselves m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/knit-your-way-to-good-health/Sleep researchers at the University of Toledo, Ohio, reported the first case of someone using the Internet while asleep. A 44-year-old woman had gone to bed about 10 p.m., then got up a few hours later, logged on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/zzz-mailing/Despite being separated by a distance of 7,000 miles, this ribbon worm species in the Arctic is identical to a ribbon worm species found in the Antarctic. Scientists at the Census for Marine Life were surprised to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/19/polar-twins/This is one of the strangest craft projects I've ever seen. Becky Stern says she plans to continue working on different segments of the MRI to see how her project will turn out. Linkcrafts, needlework, embroidery,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/embroidered-knee-mri-slice/This rainbow-colored car is covered entirely in computer keys. There's more where this came from, though - DarkRoastedBlend has cars covered in grass, Legos, pens, and even a car covered in cars. Tiny cars, that is, l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/my-type-of-car/I'm a little torn on how I feel about this clock. It's kind of awesome, but I also think I would probably wet the bed if I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that silhouetted in my dark bedroom. Creepy! It's $...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/is-this-clock-cool-or-creepy/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbIxOo3pnbc][YouTube - Link]Artist Brian Despain is a fantastic painter with a unique subject - robots. In this video, Roq La Rue Gallery's Kristen Anderson and Kenny Montana inter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/video-interview-with-robot-painter-brian-despain/Basketville is like a universe peopled by baskets. It's quintessential Vermont; all fake flowers and foodstuffs. Sip local wines as you browse the woven wonders and don't forget to claim your free wooden spoon!Says...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/only-in-vermont-basketville/As a kid I remember watching Dick Tracy and being awed by his ultra cool wrist-watch phone. I wanted one. I still want one. Thanks to the folks at LG, now we can all have one. LG's G910 Touch Watch phone, avai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/the-worlds-first-touch-watch-phone/Some 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are set to be decommissioned during this century. Instead of blowing them up, which costs milions of dollars and destroys marine life, how about converting them into an Ame...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/oil-rig-resort/The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland will formally induct new members April 3-4. In honor of the occasion, today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss challenges you to match up some hit songs of the past with the fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/whos-got-your-back/What will you get for $9.95?Woohoo! It's time for Neatorama's much anticipated Mystery Sale. What will you get for $9.95? Well ... we won't tell you because that's the whole point! It's a mystery!What we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/neatorama-mystery-sale-february-2009/The CERN Large Hadron Collider had to be taken out of commission last September for retooling after helium leaked out and caused £20 million in damage. Who gets to turn on the button to start it up when repairs are fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/tom-hanks-to-turn-on-large-hadron-collider/Blogger Michael John Grist has a series of fantastic photos of various ghost towns around Japan. Located around former mining areas, these pictures capture the eerie decay of once vibrant communities, and looks like so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/nichitsu-ghost-town/Surgeons have found a new way to send updates to other doctors, medical students, and the public during surgery -by using the social networking site Twitter! Last week, doctors at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit "Tweeted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/twittering-surgery/The urban exploration site mechanized has a lovely photo post about a secret forest sanctuary. A few years ago, in dense woodland a few miles from my home, I discovered a caravan. Encircled by trees and undergrowt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/woodland-caravan/The ADR Group in Istanbul produced this eye-catching three-level bus they call Neon! ...Neon sports a brightly-colored retro interior, equipped with everything from a fully stocked ground-floor bar and TV room to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/three-story-party-bus/By popular request, here are the neatolicious fun facts for ... beer: 1. Beer is old stuff: Recipe found in 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet The first references to beer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/neatolicious-fun-facts-beer/Welsh artist Michael Bosanko has traded in his paintbrush for lights and a digital camera. Using only these tools, the 39-year-old artist creates light graffiti using five colored flashlights and by leaving his digital c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/light-graffiti-artist/What is it about Alameda, California, that attracts vintage (read: sometimes just old) cars? Is it the mild weather ... or something else entirely? Jalopnik has a neat feature called Down on the Street, which features...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/down-on-the-street-400-old-cars-and-trucks-on-the-streets-of-alameda/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6VgpVmb2o][YouTube - Link]The folks at Eden TV, a new UK-based natural history television network, celebrated its launch by building a 16-foot-tall of a polar bear and cub strand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/polar-bears-in-london/That's right, delicious and nutritious beavers are returning to the Detroit River after being gone for decades. This is an encouraging sign that efforts to clean up the waterways are working. See, it's not all almost-fre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/good-detroit-news-for-a-change-the-beavers-are-back/If you are a fan of LOST and the Food Network's program, Ace of Cakes then you will love this cake designed to celebrate LOST's 100th episode. Jorge Garcia who plays the loveable Hurley on LOST posted picture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/ace-of-cakes-lost-cake/A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. Or how about the phrase; A Toyota's a Toyota. where ever you start...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/a-224-word-palindrome/I wrote a post on pregnancy cravings on mental_floss today - I'm not preggo, but one of my good friends is - and a commenter said that one of his friends runs a cupcake blog and recently announced her pregnancy via the b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/pickle-and-ice-cream-cupcakes/
