A new category of shaping garments proposes to do for the buttocks what the brassiere has done for the torso: "you can lift it, round it and shape it." "It's part of the whole outfit," says Ms. Benson, a 25-year-old...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/perhaps-you-would-look-better-in-padded-panties/Dentures that once belonged to Winston Churchill are in the news after fetching £15,200 in an auction. In his wartime radio broadcasts, Churchill's distinctive voice was instantly recognisable. He wanted it to stay tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/winston-churchills-dentures-were-designed-to-preserve-his-lisp/In 1850, the HMS Investigator sailed into the Canadian Arctic in search for the fabled Northwest Passage. Captain Robert McClure and his crew, after getting trapped in ice in 1853, abandoned the ship. But a te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/ship-lost-for-150-years-found-in-arctic-ice/Hello Neatoramanauts! This week's collaboration with the What Is It? Blog brings us this truly strange object to the left. Can you guess its function?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/what-is-it-game-147/Back in school, you may have learned about the European Age of Discovery: the time during the 15th-18th Centuries when Europeans traveled all over the world to lands previously unknown to them. But there were other earl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/5-amazing-early-explorers/Photographer Michael Wesely specializes in long exposures. As in years. The above picture shows the 2001 renovation of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was captured over a 34-month period. Yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/the-longest-exposures-in-the-history-of-photography/I found out something neat about three-dimensional shapes. Many strange mathematical solids are constructed by rotating the plane of a two-dimensional shape around an imaginary axis. Think of the flat holiday decorations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/a-non-math-look-at-math-objects/There's no better back-to-school gift for your beloved know-it-all than this all-seeing oracle eyeball pen (yes, the tip of the pen looks like a hand holding an eyeball)From the NeatoShop's neat selection of Back-to-Scho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/eyeball-pen/How do you make a Porsche 928 even better? Add a Boeing turbine jet engine!Bonus: flame shooter lets you roast marshmallows while you're out impressin' the ladies with your lil' sports coupe!http://www.random-good-stuff....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/porsche-modded-with-a-boeing-jet-engine/A couple of months ago, Geeks Are Sexy came up with an excellent post about the Geek Alphabet that went 'round the Net. What to do for an encore? How about The Gamer's Alphabet:Made by Artist/Project Manager/Penny Ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/the-gamers-alphabet/If you're a fruit fly, whatever you do, don't mess around with this Hawaiian caterpillar 'cuz it's got ... CLAW of DEATH!Nature is one scary mama, that's for sure! VideoSift has the clip you've got to see: Link [embedded...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/caterpillar-with-claw-of-death/Psst! Want to know the secret to keeping your game geeks clean? You're looking at it: game controller soaps by Etsy seller Digitalsoaps.Nerd Approved has the descriptions: Link | Digitalsoap's Etsy pagesoap, game control...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/game-controller-soaps/Students from Media Design School created this fantastic CGI/live action clip of the travails of a U-Boat diving in deep and strange waters: Lost in the frozen depths of the Atlantic a German U-Boat crew find themsel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/das-tub/[caption id="attachment_34185" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="(©BP p.l.c) Before boat deck/After boat deck"][/caption] Some public relations photos recently released by BP, supposed to show the world that t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/bp-photoshop-assistance/GarE Maxton is a machinist in Michigan. He built this puzzle called "The Intimidator." It's composed of 125 pieces composed of 6 different metals and requires a special key to begin disassembling it. About 20 of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/125-piece-metal-puzzle-can-reconfigure-as-a-functional-gun/(Video Link) This is a music video for the song "Ritalin" by techno band Dancing Pigeons. It depicts two men armed with a flamethrower and a fire extinguisher shooting at each other. Director Tomas Mankovsky wrote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/flamethrower-vs-fire-extinguisher-in-slow-motion/Attention slackers! If you're sick and tired of your peers and bosses orderin' you around, move to Louisiana. It's just claimed the top spot as America's laziest state. In Louisiana, where the humidity is as thick a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/louisiana-americas-laziest-state/Did you hear the story about how Allie tried to learn how to ride a bike? She was deathly afraid of the contraption, and for good reason, which you can read about at Hyperbole and a Half. Linkchildhood, bicycle, trau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/the-dreaded-bicycle/(YouTube Link) We've previously featured two short films by Freddie Wong: a light graffiti action movie and a depiction of immature Jedi. In this new video, Wong and his girlfriend fight off home invaders with guns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/flower-power-action-scene/Felix Vorreiter invented the txtBomber, a handheld gadget that prints text on any flat surface using Arduino-controlled pens: The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerillia-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/txtbomber/Vandana Gurjar filed for divorce from her husband Hemant Chhalotre in Madhya Pradesh, India. Her grounds for the action included Chhalotre's impotence. That was a mistake. He turned around and sued Gurjar for defamation,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/woman-fined-for-defaming-husbands-manhood/You may have heard of the Japanese holdouts -- soldiers of Imperial Japan that did not surrender at the end of World War II -- but continued to hide in jungles through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Although their endurance w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/the-last-to-surrender/The Denver Post has printed a gallery of color pictures taken by photographers of the the US Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information during the Great Depression and World War II. Most were transferred...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/colorful-photographs-from-the-30s-and-40s/(YouTube Link) Steve McGranahan calls himself "the world's strongest redneck". That's why he's able to wield his hedge-trimming invention: the lawnmower on a stick. His YouTube channel is filled with similar farci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/lawnmower-on-a-stick/(YouTube Link) Maybe you haven't seen Inception yet, but if you've seen the trailer detailing the premise, this parody by ColbyCornish/FilmDrunk makes for a fun alternate preview. And if you HAVE seen the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/28/bill-and-teds-excellent-inception/At long last! The votes have been tallied and checked for shenanigans, and we’re happy to present you with the results:Coming in at 5th place, with 6% of the vote, Sword Juggler Guy.*/stron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/gtfo-winners/The ad firm Grey Group made a series of LEGO minifigs that look as though they've received tattoos. They're advertisements for Pilot brand ballpoint pens. You can view several more images at the link. Link via G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/tattooed-lego-minifigs/Israeli researchers have developed an interface that can be controlled by breathing through the nose. This technology could be used to help people with limited mobility gain more independence: The "sniff controll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/nasal-controller-lets-the-paralyzed-operate-machinery-by-sniffing/The first day of the new mental_floss/Neatorama How Did You Know trivia hunt is up at mental_floss! Once again, you have a chance to win prizes from the NeatoShop each of the next four days, and more prizes for the u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/your-chance-to-win-with-how-did-you-know/Rick Norsigian's hobby of bargain-hunting at rummage sales has paid off big time. Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, accord...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/ansel-adams-photos-from-garage-sale-worth-200-million/
