All it took was fifty volunteers in Buffalo, NY to construct the world's largest ice maze for the 2010 Buffalo Powder Keg Winter Festival. Measuring 12,855.68 square feet, the new Guinness World Record maze features glow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/buffalo-sets-world-record-for-largest-ice-maze/When the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York had a broken step in their glass spiral staircase replaced, Mark Burstiner asked for, and received the old step from the repair crew. Over a year later, he put it up for s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/a-rare-stair/(YouTube Link) This video shows a huge Russian transport plane taking off from Canberra International Airport in Australia. It barely makes the takeoff, using every inch of runway available. Warning: NSFW language...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/huge-overloaded-transport-jet-uses-every-inch-of-runway-for-takeoff/Every year, prosthetic options for amputees get better. One recent improvement is a flexible foot, currently in development at the University of Michigan. It recycles the energy of motion, making it less tiring for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/bionic-feet-in-the-near-future/Anthropologist Michael Rakowitz has an upcoming exhibit at the Tate Museum in London. In it, he proposes that Saddam Hussein may have consciously or unconsciously been influenced by Western science fiction, partic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/did-saddam-hussein-model-himself-on-darth-vader/(YouTube Link) Wait for it... via Cynical-C via Arbroathelectricity, WoW...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/tree-branch-vs-power-lines/Popular Mechanics has assembled a list of five popular toys that were eventually banned in the US. Among the toys on the list is the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, marketed between 1950-51, which containe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/5-banned-toys-and-games/I'm going to be microblogging from the set of Big Bang Theory this coming Tuesday night. The taping starts around 6:00pm PT, so tune in to our Facebook and Twitter pages starting a little before then. So long as my i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/big-bang-theory-contest/In 1964, British PM Alec Douglas-Home was staying overnight at the home of Lord Hailsham in Scotland. In an astonishing security lapse, his bodyguards did not guard the door to the house. Left-wing college students, on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/kidnapping-of-uk-prime-minister-foiled-by-beer/(Video Link)The Sandpit is a video composed of 35,000 tilt-shift photographs taken in New York City. Director Sam O'Hare wrote about this project:I have always loved time-lapse footage, and films...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/tilt-shift-video-about-a-day-in-new-york-city/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVaYwQgwbz8] YouTube link. After an introduction by Ernie Kovacs, Richard Valentine Pitchford ("Cardini") performs the "intoxicated English gentleman" routine that made him famou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/cardinis-sleight-of-hand/You know how people help their cats to reach upper floors by installing cat ladders? Those can't hold a candle to this cat-operated automatic feline elevator! Link (embedded video)Cat, elevator, cat elevator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/cat-lift/(YouTube link) Designer Steven Heller gives an overview and critique of Olympic pictograms used over the past 74 years for the New York Times. When you only see these every few years, you don't realize how different t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/olympic-pictograms/Dave, from Kansas, was impressed by the recent eBay auction of the original 80's Nintendo Entertainment System which sold for $13,105. What drove the price so high was one of the games that came with it, an obscure r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/28/rare-nintendo-game-sells-for-40000/1,000 days from now, NASA could start sending humanoid avatars to the moon. They would be controlled by scientists on Earth using motion-capture suits, giving the scientists the feeling of being on the lunar surface. Che...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/send-your-avatar-to-the-moon-with-nasas-project-m/A Los Angeles shooting victim's breast implant may have saved her life by slowing the bullet before it reached her heart: She survived a gunshot to the chest, but the the bullet left a scar and deflated the implan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/breast-implant-stops-bullet/Canadian artist Mui-Ling Teh makes miniature works of origami, such as this boat, which was made from a 6x10mm piece of paper. Of her work, she wrote: I began folding my series of miniature models around the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/the-tiny-origami-of-mui-ling-teh/Royal Pingdom conducted a study of the age distribution of different social networking sites. It's often middle-aged people who dominate the user bases of these sites: Although we can’t say how thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/ages-of-social-networking-users/(YouTube Link) What a great idea to create a bit of spontaneous (and good old-fashioned) fun into the webcam craze that is Chatroulette. (via BuzzFeed)Internet phenomenon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/having-fun-with-chatroulette/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGLHluDoe0][YouTube - Link]Not long ago I was diagnosed with a rare strain of Tuberculosis and I've been stuck in a hospital quarantine room in Sydney for a total of about 60 days...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/christiaan-van-vuuren-raps-about-quarantine/Studies performed at Kyoto University suggest that young chimpanzees have memory skills better than those of adult humans. When they touched the first digit, the others were replaced with white squares, and they had to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/young-chimpanzees-have-better-memories-than-american-college-students/Practical? Nope. Badass? Absolutely. Perhaps it's second only to the Double-barreled Sword Pistol. Who knew that the Gunblade is actually real?Original photo from the answer page to last week's What is it? game. Catch us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/the-knife-pistol/We're popping the tops off our Facebook and Twitter accounts this weekend with some cool contests. Think of it as our official social media coming out party with a chance to win some neato door prizes. We've disabled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/27/neatoramanauts-are-community/Robosteel is a Dublin-based art studio that builds frightening-looking sculptures out of scrap metal. Pictured above is one in the image of the alien queen from the movie Alien, made from 1,200 pounds of Ya...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/alien-sculpture-from-1200-pounds-of-motorcycle-steel/PlanetSolar is a boat powered entirely through solar energy. At 31 meters long and 15 wide, it's the largest in the world: The 60 tonne catamaran (or is that trimaran?) has cost 18 million euro ($24.4 million USD...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/worlds-largest-solar-powered-boat/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA] YouTube link From the British Film Institute Archive comes this first-ever film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/alice-in-wonderland-1903-version/Tweeto, Ergo Sum T-ShirtIf René Descartes were alive today, would he say "I tweet, therefore I am"? From the Neatorama Shop: Link | More Funny T-ShirtsTwitter, tweet, Rene Descartes, I think therefore I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/tweeto-ergo-sum-i-tweet-therefore-i-am/The aviation company Eurocopter is developing noise-reducing helicopter blades that could minimize the sound that a helicopter makes: This week Eurocopter unveiled its most recent effort to reduce helicopter n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/stealth-helicopter/The following is an excerpt from The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem. Art by Sidney Paget (1893) “I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/how-to-fake-your-own-death/Photo: Andrew EvansNational Geographic Traveler contributing editor Andrew Evans (@Bus2Antarctica) snapped this photo of a rare black penguin during his travels around the world to Antarctica.He wrote that it's a "r...
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