The H.R. Giger Cake is a creation of Jet City Cakes. The cake is named for the designer who gave us the Alien from Alien. Perfect for the wedding of two avid sci-fi fans, this confection features two Chestburs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/h-r-giger-cake/Our friends over at Tokyoflash have a new blog where they feature concept designs of upcoming Tokyoflash watches.The best thing is that all you budding product engineers can submit your design and give feedback to concep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/tokyoflash-wants-your-concept-watch-designs/Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, aged 104 and 102 respectively, have been married for 86 years -- longer than any other living couple in the US. They are now using Twitter to dispense relationship advice to other couples:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/worlds-longest-married-couple-responds-to-your-advice-queries-via-twitter/The modeler Static Painting made these figurines that imagine The Wizard of Oz as a story of the post-apocalyptic genre. If you missed it, be sure to check out Stacy's roundup of trivia related to the movie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/post-apocalyptic-wizard-of-oz-figurines/Scientists -- with their flesh-eating robots and whatnot -- are always out to get us. Popular Science turns up the fear factor by telling us about five experiments and projects currently underway that (if exagg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/the-5-scariest-experiments-that-scientists-are-working-on-right-now/(YouTube Link) This Russian-language video shows people jumping off a five-story building into a snow drift in the town of Magadan in Far Eastern Russia. Would any Russian-speaking Neatoramanaut care to translate f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/jumping-off-a-five-story-building-into-a-snow-drift/iPhone styluses (stylusi?) can be difficult to operate while wearing gloves, which can make winter use challenging. In South Korea, some inventive users have begun inserting the stylus into sausages and then holding the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/iphone-sausage-stylus/Mural artist Eric Grohe is a master of Tromp l'oeil, the art of illusion. Believe it or not, the right side of the building shown is completely flat! He believes that his art should involve, challenge a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/the-amazing-tromp-loeil-art-of-eric-grohe/Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is for?Place your guess in the comment section. One entry per comment, please - though you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/what-is-it-game-127/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) How to Clear the snow off a Roof Actually, we're not sure how they did- but you can't deny it's a good method. Link A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/videosift-clips-of-the-week-48/Back in stock at the Neatorama Shop: Road Mice - Dodge Challenger | More Road Mice ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/neatorama-shop-update-feb-2010-2/Sea urchins don't technically have eyes, but they can "see," according to Sonke Johnsen of Duke University:The spiky body of a sea urchin acts as one big, spine-covered eye, confirms a new study that tested...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/sea-urchins-see-with-spikes/The scaly-foot gastropod (Crysomallon squamiferum) is one badass deep sea snail. Not only does it live in the foot of black smokers at the Kairei hydrothermal vent field, with temperatures reaching 725 °F, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/iron-snail-mother-natures-steampunk/When the going gets tough, the tough ... cuts coupons? Sure you can save a buck here and there with coupons but do the savings really matter? You may laugh at the average saving per coupon (about a buck fifty) but that's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/are-coupons-worth-the-hassle/We don't know whether Eva Milinkovic of Tsunami Glassworks was inspired by Blondie's Heart Of Glass when she created her version of a glass heart, but whatever her inspiration, the art piece - titled ventricle vessel - t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/heart-of-glass/In this Discovery video, which has hit the tubes recently, you'll see what is called an oarfish. Normally fish that look like this don't rise anywhere near the surface of the sea. They say in the video that this crit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/oarfish-may-be-the-source-of-sea-serpent-legend/(YouTube link) At the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics Friday, Robel Teklemariam will carry the flag for Ethiopia. Teklemariam is a cross-country skier from a country that has no snow. He came to the Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/ethiopian-cross-country-skier/Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr. is a character on The Simpsons. He's a socially inept scientist and inventor known to proclaiming nonsensical words when he's nervous. On the show, he often produces i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/the-best-inventions-by-professor-frink-of-the-simpsons/Remember Travis Pitts and his awesome design, "We've Got Some Work To Do, Now?" Well, he's still coming up with great ideas, mashing up different threads of pop culture in clever ways. To paraphrase Travis, I'm frankl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/lost-meets-lolcats/Apparently years and years of medical schooling isn't enough to make good doctors. They also need to go to ... clown school!Just kidding. A charity in Northern Ireland is recruiting clowns to entertain sick children in h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/clowndoctors/[caption id="attachment_29411" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo: NASA"][/caption] Michael Mautner of Virginia Commonwealth University says that part of the human condition we enjoy is a responsibility to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/do-we-have-a-moral-obligation-to-seed-the-universe-with-life/In The New York Times, Henry Fountain has an article exploring how the ancient technology of sailing gets very cutting edge in high-value competitions, such as America's Cup: “You have to understand th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/the-advanced-technology-of-competitive-sailing/The traditional stacked sandbag emplacement of armies around the world may be on the way out. This new portable system called McCurdy’s Armor can be assembled by soldiers with no tools and provide solid protection...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/a-new-armored-wall-to-replace-sandbag-emplacements/What goes together better than neuroscience and LOLcats? It doesn't matter, because they are together in this handy study guide, complete with a sparkly title and lots of sweet sugary cuteness along the synaps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/the-best-neuroscience-study-guide-ever-because-it-has-cats/In an interview at The Smithsonian, evolutionary biologist Jason Cryan explained why humans generally have predisposition to sweet foods and a disinterest in bitter foods: The evolutionary explanation for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/the-evolutionary-origins-of-the-sweet-tooth/Nick and Anna Berte of Bel Air, Maryland built a giant snowman and rigged it with a flamethrower inside! Linksnow, snowman, special effects, flamethrower...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/fire-breathing-snowman/Becci Lomax of Plymouth, England encountered a baby duckling that was going to be put down because of a lame leg. She took the duck in and nursed it back to health. As Lomax gave the duck, now named Ming-Ming, a dose of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/lame-duck-teaches-disabled-boy-to-walk/(YouTube link) Another musical remix by Nick Bertke, also known as Pogo, this time composed entirely of sounds found in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. -via Laughing Squid Previously at Neatorama: Ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/skynet-symphony/Some residents in the Upper Midwest were surprised to be shaken by an earthquake last night. The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake, which had an estimated magnitude of 4.3, was centered ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/did-the-earth-move-for-you/The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust is restoring the shack used by explorer Ernest Shackleton during his Anarctic expedition of 1907-1909. In 2006 they discovered two cases of whisky, but only recently have they bee...
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