Still in the concept stage, the Phyto-Purification Bathroom and Shower would make your bathroom more environmentally friendly: Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, the bathroom become...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/a-shower-that-uses-waste-water-to-grow-plants-and-recycle-the-rest/At the 50-acre Glacier Gardens in Alaska, designers added an unusual flair by uprooting more than twenty hemlock and spruce trees, flipping them over, and using the trunks as natural flower pots: During the re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/the-upside-down-forest/Who could ever forget such memorable films as Eegah, Sssssss, Phffft, and Ghost in the Invisible Bikini? The great majority of the movie-going audience, it seems. Bad movie titles go with bad movies m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/the-15-worst-movie-titles/Italians scientists have developed a new artificial bone made from wood should be an improvement over the plastic and metal that are now used for implants. Derived from organic material, the new bone substitute will prom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/new-artificial-bone-made-of-wood/The more astronauts we had, the less likely their names stay in your memory. Twelve men walked on the moon, but few of us can name those whose mission number was higher than eleven. In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/apollo-astronaut-or-pro-golfer/These new vessels, set to enter service in November, get 3/4 of their power from solar cells and 1/4 from liquefied petroleum: The technology could cut in half carbon-dioxide output on a typical urban ferry ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/hong-kongs-solar-powered-ferries/If you need this product, then we need to talk about your anger issues. But preferably while you're not holding the Fisticup. It's sort of like a spork, but a bit more violent. http://shop.neatorama.com/product-in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/the-fisticup-a-combination-mug-and-knuckle-duster/If you're visually impaired, it can be hard to fill a mug (or any other vessel) without spilling over the edge. The Braun Bell Mug beeps at each of three different levels, so the user can know how much liquid s/he's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/a-mug-for-the-blind-that-chimes-when-its-full/Melissa Brandts wasn't trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She'd set up the camera's timer so that she'd have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/self-portrait-with-ground-squirrel/(YouTube Link) I'm not sure what this is, but it is awesome. Sticky Light is a student project at the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the University of Tokyo. O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/sticky-light/Where I Write is a photogallery of science fiction and fantasy authors in their workspaces. The photo above is of Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth series. Photographer Kyle Cassidy plans to create a book...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/where-sci-fifantasy-authors-do-their-work/If Star Wars Was Real is a photoshop gallery of images which imagine a synthesis of human history (particularly in the 20th Century) and Star Wars. Well, I think that it's photoshopped. The hosts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/09/if-star-wars-was-real-2/Radar magazine has a gallery of thirteen consumer products that were originally developed by space exploration programs. Among them is the ear thermometer: In an effort to identify newborn suns, NASA rep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/13-consumer-products-originally-designed-for-space-travel/(YouTube Link) Inventor Paul Patone has invented a fuel delivery system that can turn soda into a usuable fuel. He prefers to use Mountain Dew: It's called the Geet Sytstem. Basically, it's a fuel booster sy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/invention-uses-mountain-dew-for-fuel/He made it out of wood and a motorcycle engine: 20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan built himself a helicopter using only — according to the man — what he remembers of middle school physics lessons and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/chinese-farmer-builds-homemade-helicopter/(YouTube Link) Researchers at the University of Tokyo are developing tangile holograms -- or rather, a system that uses sensors and Nintendo Wiimotes to give the impression of physical contact by holograms: A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/tangible-holograms/This gadget, developed by the Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, will allegedly translate a dog's barks: The gadget can tell you if your dog is sad, joyful, alert to danger, needy, happy or frustrated. The Â...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/the-bowlingual-bark-translator/Mark Northeast is a UK-based food artist who creates sandwiches in the forms of unique images, such as the caterpillar above, to encourage kids to eat a varied diet. He hopes to soon come out with a photobook of his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/the-sandwich-art-of-mark-northeast/Although it's pricey at $3,500, this kitchen gadget will churn out 200 pancakes in one hour. The manufacturer is marketing it toward convenience stores and cafeterias, but I'd say that there'd be a strong demand fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/chefstack-automatic-pancake-machine/Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a helmet that helps visually impaired people make use of echolocation to find their way around: The system takes real-time imagery of local obstacles, be the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/navigation-helmet-creates-sound-maps-for-the-blind/Bill and Amarins Harrison and their three children are on a lengthy family vacation. They plan on riding their custom-made bicycle to Florida, and thence to Alaska and back again: They departed Renfro Valley on S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/family-bicycling-from-kentucky-to-alaska-on-five-person-bicycle/(College Humor Video Link) Deceptive Deceptions is Dan Meth's latest short film, this time tying together all modern conspiracy theories. What do the JFK assassination, actor John Candy, NASA, and Wyoming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/deceptive-deceptions/Some people will go to great lengths to get into the Guinness World Records. Take, for example, this Chinese bride that got married in a wedding dress with a train more than 1.2 miles (2 km) long:It took guests more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/worlds-longest-wedding-dress-train/Some religious rituals are so bizarre that they leave you scratching your head. This one, however, may lead to a cracked skull. Literally. Here's the strange practice of cracking a coconut on devotees of Goddess Lakshmi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/weird-religious-festival-cracking-coconuts-on-ones-head/We've posted some creative prison smuggling schemes before on Neatorama, but never one this ... beefy: An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own fles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/fat-inmate-hid-gun-in-fat-rolls/This mini documentary has a great bit of info about the Moscow Cat Theater. Apparently shows like this are fairly common in Russia although we certainly have nothing in the states like this, at least not with cats. It'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/cat-circus-in-russia/Heart-Kun is an adorable dog with a heart marking on his side. He's a minor internet celebrity and was even featured on the post we recently linked to featuring animals with heart markings. His parents recently gave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/dog-with-heart-mark-has-matching-brother/Image: Nathan Mazur of Scared of BeesHello everyone - sorry for the slowdown in new posts, we're busy fighting Kraken doing some work under the hood on the blog, so please pardon any hiccups! Hopefully thing will get bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/neatorama-update/Must Pop Words is a straightforward but addictive clear-the-board game mixed with a word game. As letters drop, you type in any words they can form, which will clear those letters. Don't let the screen fill up with let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/must-pop-words/Betty A. Lichtenstein of Norwalk, Connecticut was lauded as "nurse of the year" at a fancy dinner in 2008. Now an investigation finds that Lichtenstein wasn't even a nurse! An investigation then determined that Lich...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/07/former-nurse-of-the-year-not-a-nurse/
