F-Stop Watch - $35.95 Got a shutterbug in your family? Need a Christmas gift for a fellow photo enthusiast? Look no further than the NeatoShop's Gift Guide for Shutterbugs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/gifts-for-shutterbugs/(Vimeo Link) John Kestner's Tableau project looks like a nightstand but is actually an internet-enabled photo printer and scanner. It acts as a bridge between users of physical and digital media, taking the best...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/tableau-physical-email/In his short story collection Sum, neuroscientist David Eagleman imagined forty possible afterlives. An excerpt from it speculates about a world in which a person's life experiences are all grouped together by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/life-experiences-all-at-once/Are you looking for a keyboard that absorbs sweat? Me neither but this bamboo keyboard and mouse combo does that as well as "evoking in the users a deep feeling of peace, calm and tranquility." Clearly this unique, easy-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/bamboo-keyboard/Hmm, this looks like someone doing a steampunk version of Star Wars, doesn't it? Wrong! These are real antiques. This pair of early rescue masks, shown above, dates from between the mid-1800s and World War...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/victorian-star-wars/(Video Link) The classic game show The Dating Game featured a string of celebrity contestants during the 1970s. Margaret Eby of Flavorwire compiled ten of the best or oddest, including Arnold Schw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/the-dating-games-10-best-celebrity-contestants/If you're trying to build a mnemonic memory circuit out of stone knives and bearskins, it helps to have someone like Photoshop artist Rabbit Tooth nearby. You can view five more images from classic (and I mean, ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/victorian-star-trek/Victor Lopez, Farris Hodo, and Kevin Coon set a Guinness World Record by watching television for a full 86 hours, 6 minutes, and 41 seconds. They were allowed a ten minute break every two hours, but otherwise had to sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/men-set-couch-potato-record-by-watching-tv-for-86-hours/Psychologist Patti Adank of the University of Manchester wondered if using an accent, even if it was affected, would make that accent more comprehensible. It did: To find out how we can make sense of unfamiliar infle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/imitate-an-accent-to-understand-it-better/(Video Link) YouTube user Keshen8, whose work we've previously featured, is back with a second helping minifig-on-minifig mayhem. In an interview, Keshen8 described how he creates these scenes rather quickly: Q1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/lego-stop-motion-gunfight/The design studio The Chair Ltd led by architect Michael CK Chan created this chair. Several in his collection have a lovely curved shape, like the above LC-018 lounge chair. Link via Born Rich | Studio Website |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/ladle-like-lounge-chair/Ukrainian photographer Danil Polevoy changes vintages photographs into works of art by adding an anachronism -something that that doesn't belong in the time period of the photograph. In some pictures they are easy to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/anachronisms/You'd think soup would completely dry up after a couple of thousand years, but a pot of still-liquid soup was found by a team of archaeologists in China. It was sealed inside a bronze cooking pot at a dig near Xian. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/2400-year-old-soup/(Video Link) If you've ever spent long hours knitting socks and sweaters, you've probably wondered if it would be possible for a machine to all of this work that you are forced to do by hand. Well, then, good news!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/diy-knitting-machine/Chengdu Guosetianxiang is an amusement park in Sichuan, China. The park has erected an enormous and nearly life-size Gundam model. Well, presumably it's just a model and not a functional Gundam. It's 49 feet tall,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/china-builds-nearly-full-size-gundam/(Video Link) Eric Brevig made this fake alternate ending for the animated movie Yogi Bear. It parodies a scene in the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It may also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/the-assassination-of-yogi-bear-by-the-coward-boo-boo/If that six-inch blanket of snow outside didn't get me into the Christmas spirit, these photographs would! The Big Picture blog collected pictures from all over in a post named "Beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/christmas-everywhere/High magnification techniques have recently revealed tiny letters and numbers in the eyes of the Mona Lisa that were not visible to the naked eye. The symbols were likely placed there by  LeonardoDa Vinci. Investigators...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/real-life-da-vinci-code/God Must Love Stupid People Fuzz Crime Scene Scarf Fisticup...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/neatorama-update-tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-winners/(YouTube link) This wooden roller coaster called the Reverse Cowgirl was built by Mike Nawrot and Romain Teil for Rush Week at MIT. I would find this totally terrifying. Link -via the Daily WhatRoller Coaster, diy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/homemade-face-out-roller-coaster/Great Vocab Didn't Save the Thesaurus Mug - $9.95 | T-shirt version Here's the perfect mug for your beloved logophile (lover of words, that is), exclusively available from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/great-vocab-didnt-save-the-thesaurus-mug/Your business knowledge will be tested in today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental floss. You'll be given the names of two companies at a time, and you decide which is older. I scored 73%, or 8 of 11, because I am as old as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/which-company-is-older/We consider a nutcracker shaped like a human to be a Christmas symbol because of Peter Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. That's about all that most of us know about nutcrackers. The wooden icon we reco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/nutcracker-history/Who says a Christmas tree has to be a tree? Doctor Who fan Lindsey J. Testolin made this Christmas dalek for her tree a couple of years ago. You can see the lights flashing in a video if you like. Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/christmas-dalek/It's time for the Name That Weird Invention! contest. Steven M. Johnson comes up with all sorts of wacky inventions in his weekly Museum of Possibilities posts. Can you come up with a name for this one? I can't eve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/name-that-weird-invention-12/Engineers like to think big. Some plan extremely big in order to take on projects like unlimited energy, room for a growing population, or settlements in outer space. Take, for example, Larry Niven's concept cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/megastructures-bigger-than-worlds/A kitten named Jack Tripper was born with no eyes at all. But he doesn't let that stop him from doing what he wants, As far as Jack knows, all cats are like him. Jamie adopted him from a colony of barn cats and Jack adap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/jack-the-amazing-eyeless-kitty/The following is an article from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader. You probably don't give Santa a second look when you see him in a department store or on a street corner every December ...but maybe you s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/the-santa-chronicles/
