Salon writer Sarah Hepola moved to tiny apartment in Manhattan and found the lack of space severely affected her cat Bubba. Should she take him outside on a leash? Have you ever been able to leash-train a cat? I know, I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/cat-on-a-leash/If you look hard enough, even the most outlandish legends have a grain of truth somewhere. Reports from antiquity of sea monsters may be fantastic, but they describe what someone at least thought they saw at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/8-famous-sea-monsters-and-their-real-life-equivalents/(YouTube Link) Nick Homer and Stewart Clyde, students at Brigham Young University, built a motorized couch and started driving it around campus: Two twelve volt car batteries power the broken wheel chair moving t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/motorized-couch/For me, part of the fun of going out to the movies is getting to enjoy some guilt-free junk food. There's just something about watching an action-packed blockbuster with a tub of popcorn and some Junior Mints. The next...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/snack-break-the-stories-behind-your-favorite-movie-theater-candy/A woman flying on standby on a Southwest Airlines flight was removed from the plane because one passenger needed two seats: A petite Sacramento woman was bumped from a Southwest Airlines flight to make room for an ext...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/southwest-airlines-kicks-skinny-woman-off-plane-to-make-room-for-larger-passenger/Jim Gorman of Popular Mechanics took a look at some of the early schematics and prototypes for the popular Leatherman Multi-Tool developed by Tim Leatherman in the 1980s. Pictured above are cardboard cut-ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/the-development-of-the-leatherman-multitool/The new caption contest is up at NeatoGeek! This week, the featured picture is a comic by cartoonist Joel Watson (what you see here is only a detail). The best caption will win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop, so look aroun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/give-neatogeek-a-caption/Artist Clëmence Joly knitted a scene from a butcher shop and put it in a shop window in London. Her project is called "The Wool Butchery" and you can view a gallery of eighteen images at the link. Link via Nerdc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/the-wool-butcher-shop/Pictured above is an artist's conception of Sikorsky's new project. The Firefly, if successful, will be a full-sized helicopter that is powered entirely by electricity: The Firefly is built around the existing S-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/full-sized-electric-helicopter/Where I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles there is a small – admittedly very small – chance I will be shot at while driving or riding in a car on the freeway. For reasons not clear to me, some young men enjoy shoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/toll-roads-for-legalized-car-wars/Mini Samurai Umbrella - $19.95Perhaps it's not yet rainy season where you are, but a good samurai is always prepared. We've just gotten a shipment of the Mini Samurai Umbrella, a travel version of the our bestselling ful...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/mini-samurai-umbrella/James Laver (1899-1975) was a British historian of art and fashion design. He composed the above model to depict the changing social perceptions of women's fashion. In his 1937 work Tastes and Fashion: From the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/lavers-law/We've previously featured a minimalist clock design by Giha Woo and Shingoeun. Another clock that they've built uses a staggered hour hand to indicate the time in multiple time zones. It's called "Bent Hands"....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/clock-tells-time-in-every-time-zone/The dog days of summer are upon us. Do you wish you could take your canine companion along when you go surfing? If you follow a few simple instructions you can. Strap a life vest on Fido, put him on a board, add wave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/hotdogging-with-mans-best-friend/(YouTube Link) I have a boiled egg for breakfast every morning. They are alternately too runny or rock hard. I don't wear crap jewelery and too much lipstick nor are Evian and a chainsaw included in my recipe. Now I k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/tv-megachef-reveals-secrets-of-egg-boiling/Industrial designers Mike Simonian and Pieter Schouten made this skateboard in order to add the flexibility of snowboarding movements to skateboarding: The Flowlab Skateboard allows you to surf without waves and r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/skateboard-with-many-wheels/In order to promote Black Flag anti-insect spray, the Cleveland-based ad agency Marcus Thomas projected ants crawling over a building. At the link, you can view a video of the ants in motion. Link via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/giant-ants-attack-building/Scientists in East Timor have discovered the skeleton of a rat three times larger than any rat living today: The new species was three times heavier -- about six kilograms (13 pounds) -- than the biggest rats known to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/skeleton-of-giant-rat-discovered/Tony Nijhuis built this functional model of the Boeing B-50 bomber, a postwar variant of the B-29: The real bomber had four engines, so he hunted down four of the biggest electric motors he could find. He created...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/model-b-50-bomber/I'm sure you've all heard your parents tell you how they walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways, but how has parenting changed through the ages? John Farrier wrote a very interesting post over at NeatoBambino ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/parenting-in-ancient-civilizations/Vintage Camera, Camera, Retro Movie Camera keychains - $3.95 ea.These are my favorite keychains in the NeatoShop: a set of camera keychains that are perfect for shutterbugs! If your loved ones love photography, these wil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/vintage-camera-keychains/I suspect that our pal Sean Fallon of Nerd Approved, Fashionably Geek, and CubicleBot is secretly a master of time and space. He's probably got it rigged so he's got more than 24 hours in a day - that's my only explanati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/thats-nerdalicious-blog/Cheryl of Sew Can Do regularly makes "Hairdo Hat" for her cute little girl. Her newest one, Prince Leia hairdo is definitely out of this world! Link - via Distracted by Star WarsCheck out NeatoGeek for more Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/princess-leia-hairdo-hat-for-baby/The King of Pop didn't die. He just got tired of the celebrity life and decided to go shop at Wal-Mart. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Beer or Kidwalmart, Moonwalk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/meanwhile-at-walmart/The movie Caddyshack was released on July 25th, 1980. My, has that really been 30 years? What better to celebrate than a Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss! Test your recall of this now-class...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/caddyshack-turns-30/Kyle Merriman recently visited Nara Dreamland, the abandoned Disneyland knockoff theme park in Nara, Japan that was built in 1961 and closed in 2006. He found it to be fairly intact, except for the fact that ther...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/nara-dreamland/(YouTube link) This video of a lightning bolt was filmed at 9,000 frames per second. The entire minute-and-a-half video covers less than two seconds of real time. Is this cool or what? -via Dr. Isislightning, slowmoti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/the-formation-of-a-lightning-bolt/Geeks Are Sexy proves that some are indeed in this collection of costumed participants at Comic-Con 2010, last week in San Diego. In addition to these, they are asking for your cosplay photographs to be publ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/cosplay-at-comic-con-2010/The Sand dollar is well named - it looks like a coin after all. However, this denizen of the Pacific coast has a trick up its sleeve. It can clone itself.Bizarre, but true. A few years ago scientists dis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/the-sand-dollar-an-animal-that-can-clone-itself/You've probably snacked on m&ms your whole life. But have you ever wondered how they're made? This article takes a look at the interesting, unique, and delicate manufacture process behind the m&m candy.LinkFrom t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/how-the-heck-do-they-make-mms/
