(Links open in a new browser window/tab) World's Largest Firework Though perhaps a contentious claim, this is reputedly the world's largest single firework. Link Ap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/videosift-clips-of-the-week-39/Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event in which participating bloggers post about a particular issue to raise awareness and trigger global discussion that will - hopefully - bring about positive change. This year's to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/blog-action-day-is-climate-change-global-warming-real/Port-A-Pint Portable Beer Glass - $7.95Don't go unprepared to your next party. Forget those clumsy disposable cups, bring your own portable beer glass. The Port-A-Pint Beer Glass pops open in seconds with a flick of your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/port-a-pint-portable-beer-glass/Miss Cellania's post of the mysterious man in people's dreams reminded me of my own personal nightmare. Here's the robot that's been haunting my dreams. Have you been dreaming of the same bot?silly, neatoramabot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/ever-dream-this-robot/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3IM06xgr0][YouTube - Link]A stylish new fan has been creating a buzz in the world of technology. In this clip, inventor/engineer James Dyson, famous for his vacuum clea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/bladeless-fan-by-james-dyson/[caption id="attachment_26889" align="aligncenter" width="352" caption="Photo by Peter Korrak"][/caption] For a hundred years or so, Vienna invested in coal/gas energy, but when the plant was decommissioned there wer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/gasometers-reimagined-as-apartment-community/In July 1841 the dead body of the beautiful brunette Mary Cecilia Rogers was found in the Hudson, near Hoboken. When the famous author Edgar Allan Poe soon afterwards published his story "The Murder of Marie Rog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/was-marie-roget-murdered-by-edgar-allan-poe/(Video Link) Do you remember the the head-crushing sketch from The Kids in the Hall? Artist Chris O'Shea created something like it, but on a grand scale, in this augmented reality demonstration. As the pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/giant-hand-crushes-pedestrians/(YouTube Link) iRobot, the company that invented the Roomba household vacuuming robot, is developing a robot that locomotes by inflating and deflating sections of its outer skin, moving contents inside toward its de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/shape-shifting-robot/Image: Nicholas Lampert Collage artist Nicolas Lampert combines the joys of lovely landscapes and mountains of meat. In an interview with ArtSlant, he wrote about the juxtapositions that he creates in his meatscapes:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/the-meatscapes-of-nicolas-lampert/Image: KiteGen Research The Italian firm KiteGen Research is developing a generator that harnesses the wind through kites. As a kite flies into the air, it unspools a cord that cranks the turbine. Carina Storrs writ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/kite-powered-generator/The diving horses performed at Atlantic City's Steel Pier in the 1920s and 1930s. The horse would jump into a tank of water, typically with a young woman riding on its back. Some dove with their front legs straigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/the-diving-horses-of-atlantic-city/Fossils of flying reptiles come in two versions: the older long-tailed pterosaurs and the more recent short-tailed versions. The fossil gap between the two was a mystery until 20 skeletons of a new species were disco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/darwinopterus-the-new-flying-dinosaur/In 2000, a psychiatric patient drew a picture of a man who appeared in recurring dreams. The picture was left out on the doctor's desk, where another patient recognized it from his dreams as well! With a bit of inves...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/ever-dream-this-man/"J" is an autistic child who also has post-surgical and bowel-related chronic pain. His autism manifested itself as aggression rather than simple withdrawal, resulting in severe behavioral problems. Authorities in Rh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/9-year-old-child-given-marijuana-for-medical-reasons/Photo: Inscentinel For a few years, a British company called Inscentinel has been developing chemical-detecting honeybees for security and sanitation purposes. Bees are trained to respond to certain smells and then a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/bomb-sniffing-bees/There was a problem in the segregated Jewish ghetto of 15th century Prague: there were more people dying than there was land to bury them. The solution? They were buried on top of one another. Here's the unique story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/the-famous-layered-jewish-cemetery-in-prague/This painting, which was sold in auction as "German, Early 19th Century" has gone from being worth $19,000 to millions overnight. The new owner who won it decided to give the painting a thorough checkup, whereu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/new-da-vinci-discovered-thanks-to-hunch-and-a-fingerprint/Usually, when you say "shoot" to a photographer, he starts snapping with his camera - but be careful when you say that to California-based photographer Alan Sailer. He may just start shooting ... with bullets!*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/the-photo-shoot-is-literally-a-photographer-shooting-things/In yet another case of blurring between the lines of virtual and reality, a woman broke the law for poking via Facebook! Shannon Jackson of Tennessee broke the law when she poked a contact on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/be-careful-who-you-poke/This Tardis cake by Barbara-Jo of Do it myself! blog is so awesome that the Time Lord himself would probably go back in time to prevent it from being eaten. The Tardis cake a quarter-scale (2 feet tall) and has LEDs a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/tardis-cake/Don't laugh. This young man gives a remarkable rendition of the third ("Presto") movement of the "Summer" concerto from The Four Seasons. If you enjoy this, be sure to also view the accordion versions o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/vivaldi-performed-on-an-accordion/UGO's Guess the Movie quizzes are challenging. This one I thought I'd ace, but had to settle for 6/10. All of their quizzes are hard, and categories vary from Coen Brothers Movies to the Halloween movies, and mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/guess-the-nerd-movie/(Video Link) Newsweek interviewed five actors who played munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. They reminisce about the production of the movie and how it impacted their lives. Did you know that Toto go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/the-munchkins-after-70-years/Enjoy this piece on Scienceray about the wonderful Giraffe-Necked Antelope of East Africa. Just as their taller friends have evolved to get to the higher branches of green in a barren landscape, this unique species...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/the-strange-elegance-of-the-giraffe-necked-antelope/Back in 1st century A.D. (or C.E., if it pleases you), the Romans were really starting to crank things up. Things like debauchery, poisoning of rivals, fratricide...basically setting the stage for their own eventual do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/neros-rotating-dining-hall-discovered/[caption id="attachment_26859" align="aligncenter" width="319" caption="Posters by Matt Needle"][/caption] Remembering to keep it simple, Alfred Hitchcock fan/artist Matt Needle re-imagined a series of posters for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/mod-hitchcock-posters/It's a common belief in America these days that without a high school diploma, you have no future. This opinion may be true to some extent, but it's certainly not a hard and fast rule. There are a lot of highly successfu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/7-highly-successful-high-school-dropouts/Photo: flickr user Ang & Nick Botropolis (a robot-themed blog) has pictures of 10 Jack-O-Lanterns modeled to look like robots. Pictured above is Punk-O-Tron, a work by flickr user Ang & Nick. Others are inspired by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/10-robot-jack-o-lanterns/Photo: ~toge-nyc deviantArt user ~toge-nyc created this dragon out of plastic forks, spoons, and knives held together with glue. It took him about 80 hours complete the project. If you check out his page, you can al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/this-dragon-is-made-entirely-of-plastic-eating-utensils/
