New research has revealed that dogs are as intelligent as two year old children. The study pointed to border collies being the smartest breed, followed by poodles. Interestingly, the average dog also seems to have the so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/dogs-as-smart-as-toddlers/Still in the concept stage, the Touch Color is a device that would allow visually impaired people to create two-dimensional art: This innovative device comprises a Rainbow Picker in a form of a scroll wheel, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/a-device-to-help-blind-people-draw/Orange County Choppers, the New York-based custom motorcycle shop, is famous for its loud, raked-back choppers. The shop is also the scene of the TLC reality show American Chopper. Recently, OCC worked wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/orange-county-choppers-builds-its-first-electric-motorcyle/With most "pet saves family from fire" stories, it's easy to assume that the pet woke someone up because it wanted OUT of the house. In this case, the cat came in from outside, and it didn't even live t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/cat-saves-man-from-burning-home/Astronomers with the Wide Area Search for Planets have discovered a planet, dubbed WASP-17, that is twice the size of Jupiter. That makes it the largest planet ever discovered. Unlike any other planet discovered so far...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/planet-orbits-backwards/Ebay user tully712 made a go-cart modeled after the Batmobile in the movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He's selling plans for it and a license to build it. The bidding currently stands at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/man-builds-batmobile-go-cart/The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz premiered 70 years ago today at The Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It didn't premiere in Hollywood until three days later. In honor of the occasion, mental_floss brings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/happy-birthday-wizard/Lucky the duckling is very lucky to have been adopted by an orthopedic nurse after she broke her leg, which left her with a right foot that bent the wrong way. Alison Morgan of Newport, Wales, performs physical therapy o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/duck-has-a-sandal/The Google Street View photographs of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California were taken during a race! Unfortunately, the photographs don't go all the way to the finish line. Link -via redditmaps, Gogle S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/street-view-of-a-racetrack/Scientists thought they'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were, since fossils are rock-colored and even recently-discovered mummified scraps of the animals are faded. Jakob Vinther, a graduate student at Yale, was r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/the-color-of-dinosaurs/This infographic shows you which products (mostly coffee drinks) have the least and most caffeine and calories by plotting them on a graph, with some familiar foods on the left for reference. This is why I drink black...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/caffeine-vs-calories/Remarkable talent, don't you think? Kieron Williamson of Norfolk, UK didn't draw anything a year ago, but now he's had first gallery exhibition: Spurred on by images on the Internet and in art books - and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/this-was-painted-by-a-six-year-old/Katie would make one great math mom!Math Mom: If I've Told You N Times, I've Told You N+1 TimesI can practically hear my mother's voice saying "if I told you once, I've told you a thousand times." Well, for thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/12/math-mom-if-ive-told-you-n-times-ive-told-you-n1-times/All you science-lovers on Neatorama should appreciate this great sweater featuring the Periodic Table of Elements. The sleeves feature fungi and bacteria names. The creator made it for her husband, a microbiologist w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/periodic-table-sweater/This musical kettle is designed by Naoki Kawamoto in an effort to "redesign soundscape." It will play your favorite tune when things get heated up and begin boiling. Link Via BoingBoingArt, Music, kettles, tea pot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/musical-tea-pot-plays-your-tune/This pony is an American miniature horse born with a dwarfism gene. For reference, there's another picture of little Koda compared to a normal horse on the website. He goes to about the knees of the stallion. I could...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/dwarf-mini-pony/Look closely, can't you see four perfectly round circles? Or maybe you'll want to stand way back to see them. Don't scroll up and down; that might make you queasy! -via I Am Bored optical illusion, illusion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/four-perfectly-round-circles/A new species of pitcher plant has been discovered in the Philippines. The giant pitcher (Nepenthes attenboroughii) lives high on Mount Victoria, and was reported by missionaries who were lost in the mountain ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/giant-carnivorous-plant-could-eat-rats/(YouTube link) A quintet of kids from Seattle's Marrowstone in the City program perform video game themes, with some embellishments from their friends in the background. Don't miss the Pong segment! -via Buzzfeed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/stop-playing-homework-and-do-your-video-games/I can't find out much information about this bed -- just some pictures listed on a real estate site. Yup, it's for sale at $364,900. Comes with a house in Visalia, CA and a guarantee of perpetual virginity, like the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/star-wars-y-wing-bed/These shelves, inspired by the classic video game Donkey Kong, are the perfect place to store your valuable, fragile possessions. Via CrunchGrear, which found it on a list of ten pieces of furniture inspi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/donkey-kong-shelves/The Origami Crane Lamp is a chandelier by Michele Varian, a New York-based fashion designer and interior decorator. It measures 58" long is lit fluorescently. Link via Nerd Approvedorigami, Michele Varian, Origam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/origami-paper-crane-chandelier/A rescue robot that picks up victims and takes them inside of itself. What could possibly go wrong? The Robocue is operated by the Tokyo Fire Department and used to extract people from areas where rescue workers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/a-human-extracting-rescue-robot/Amateur photographer Desmond Cannon of Brae, Ireland caught these sawfly caterpillars eating through a leaf while sticking their rear ends in the air! He shot pictures of the tiny (less than a centimeter long) caterpil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/dancing-caterpillars/Money Hacker has a list of twelve ways to travel the world without paying. Some are for free lodging, some for travel expenses, so you may have to combine several tips to truly travel free -and none of these ideas invo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/12-ways-to-travel-the-world-for-free/A bacon sandwich is good anytime, but August s the best time for BLTs, when local tomatoes are at their peak. At the fifth annual Tomato Fest in St. Louis, Tom Coghill and 90 volunteers put together a BLT that stretche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/world-record-bacon-sandwich/More awesome than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I don't know yet, but the novel Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber looks promising. Here's a synopsis: When the Imperial prison barge Purge–tem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/a-star-wars-zombie-novel/(Video Link) This touching song by Daniel Strange and Kevin Umbricht describes the private lives of G.I. Joe characters when they're not busy fighting. Featuring Cobra Commander dancing and starring Sgt....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/the-ballad-of-gi-joe/A new generation of hearing aids will be able to block out background noise and let users directly jack into music: On Friday Mr Hughes had tiny titanium screws drilled into bone behind each ear during a 90-mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/a-bone-anchored-hearing-aid-with-a-built-in-mp3-input/Still in the concept stage, the Watergate is an alternative to the turnstile. If you're disabled, getting through a turnstile can be a challenge. That's why designers Michael Tatschl, Sascha Mikel and Martin Schnab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/10/a-turnstile-that-sprays-you-with-water/
