When I was a kid we had to make do with a Light Bright to entertain us. Now it looks like we are one step closer to children having a robotic, artificially intelligent play friend. Which will be perfect for the child...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/nao-humanoid-robot-plays-card-games-with-kids/How to you kill two birds with one stone? We haven’t been back to the moon since the Apollo missions and we have a looming energy crisis. Former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt has a big plan to solve both those issu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/solve-the-energy-problem-by-mining-the-moon/The National September 11 Memorial will open this fall in New York City. The names of 3,500 victims of the terrorist attacks that day will be inscribed on the wall surrounding the fountains. Instead of arranging the name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/algorithm-connects-911-victims/(YouTube link) We don't yet know a lot about the movie Night of the Little Dead, except that it stars Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) and Adam Savage (of Mythbusters), but that is enough to make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/night-of-the-little-dead/The secret to success is finding what people need and providing it -which takes hard work, of course. Mental_floss brings you the stories of four women who worked at home raising children AND had an idea that made th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/4-wildly-successful-companies-started-by-stay-at-home-moms/Stretch Body Bits - $1.95 Life can be stressful when you are the type of person who is always lending a ear, hand, nose or foot. Are you looking for a way to put the play back in your day? With the Stretch Body Bits...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/stretch-body-bits/Inventing is a great way to leave your mark on the world, but in some unfortunate circumstances, inventions have been known to leave the mark of death on their inventors. A few years ago, we wrote a post about five inven...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/five-more-inventors-killed-by-their-own-creations/(YouTube link) How would you like to do this for a living? Cristina Zenato is a shark handler. Underwater videographer and conservationist Joe Romeiro captures her interacting with sharks in this lovely video. I f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/06/cristina-zenato-shark-handler/Maia Weinstock enshrined your favorite internet scientists, science bloggers, and science journalists in Lego! The project is called Scitweeps, as each person is identified by their Twitter feed. Pictured here is @ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/scientists-of-the-internet-in-lego/(YouTube link) In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Charlie disembowels a piñata. For dramatic effect, this piñata was filled with tasty kitty noms. -via The Daily WhatCat, pinata...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/cat-vs-pinata/(Video Link)The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan, acquired and filled a water balloon six feet across. They then jumped on it, trying to break it. It was quite a sturdy balloon, and the ripples that result from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/giant-water-balloon-in-slow-motion/Photo Link Looking for a little extra oomph to the traditional Mother's Day breakfast in bed this weekend? Give pancake art a whirl. With a squeeze bottle and a little practice, you can produce some results that are p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/make-your-own-pancake-art/When the What first caught my eye because of a Flavorwire link to their TGIF timeline. You know, if you were of a certain age, there was a point when you were totally stoked for Friday nights because it meant Ful...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/a-time-traveling-fictional-bar-crawl/deviantART user Samuel Lee made this dandy leather hat and decorated it with a classic maritime motif. It's not a treasure map. At least, Lee doesn't say that it's a treasure map. Maybe there's a code worked into it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/admirals-map-hat/The cartoon blog Draw 2D2, I gather, offers a regular stream of mashups between different pairs of pop culture icons. Most recently, the artists there tackled Pokémon and Dr. Seuss. Jason Welborn added a fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/pokemondr-seuss-mashup-contest/Photographer Alain Sailer breaks stuff and takes pictures. Well, that's probably oversimplifying it a bit. The results of his high speed photography are really gorgeous, so check out his Flickr photostream. Link v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/jello-in-a-shattering-christmas-ornament/(Video Link) Connor Anderson and Zac Smith made this outstanding parody of Far East Movement's "Like a G6." Truly, contrary to the airy video of Far East Moment, this is how the good life is lived: in a basement, al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/dungeons-dragons-song-roll-a-d6/Photographer Ryan Taylor uses water balloons and strobe lights to create some amazing pieces of high speed photography. This lovely image was made with skim milk and food coloring. Link via This Is Colossalhigh sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/high-speed-photography-and-water-balloons/Etsy seller Rebecca Roka offers this squidscot covered with 29 sucker cups. Her shop includes a "Tentacle section." Now there's a retailing novelty! Not even the largest Wal-Mart has a tentacle section. Link via N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/tentacle-tie/(Video Link) Anime cat ear headbands have been around for a long time. But these, developed by Neurowear, can be controlled with your thoughts. At least, that's the bold claim that the company makes about the "Necom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/finally-real-life-anime-cat-ears/Corona Beer Tumbler - $6.95 It's Cinco De Mayo! Celebrate in style with the Corona Beer Tumbler from the NeatoShop. This fabulous little glass was created by a California artisan and is made from an upcycled beer bott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/corona-beer-tumbler/These little, cute crocheted Star Wars characters really make you say awww-some. They have no other purpose than to perhaps be the perfect gift for your buddy who loves Star wars and arts and crafts. LinkStar Wars, C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/the-cute-side-of-the-force/It’s hard to believe but some musicians out there are in more bands than Jack White. BandToBand.com has created a unique web site to “map the Rock and Roll Genome.” It’s like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/the-rock-band-family-tree/From the folks at Vice Magazine comes this mini documentary on the Pakistani Homemade Machine gun market. It gives an in depth look (with photos and video) of how arms are created, bought and sold in that part of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/pakistani-homemade-machine-gun-market/A fun build-it-yourself project is to create this “Crazyflie” a homemade miniature Quadcopter that uses a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The video at the link shows the tiny flying machine zipping around effortle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/quadcopter-sounds-like-a-swarm-of-angry-bees/I like websites that perform one function well. This website answers the question of how many people are in space at any given moment and where (on the International Space Station, aboard the Space Shuttle, etc.) L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/how-many-people-are-in-space-right-now/Photo: Mark TipplePhotographer and surfer Mark Tipple has always been intrigued with what happens below the surface. So, while between projects he "hung out" under the sea to capture some of the best underwater...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/the-underwater-project-by-mark-tipple/Used and banged up gadgets are usually considered as ugly by most people, but not to Remy Labesque of design mind's Object Oriented blog. He considers them "Aged to Perfection" (though that's not enough to cons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/gadgets-aged-to-perfection/Who needs males when you have parthenogenesis? With a little help from science, biologist Peter Baumann and collagues have created an all-female lizard species:Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/scientists-create-all-female-species-of-lizard/Someone has made Ed Falco an offer he can't refuse. The novelist was authorized by the family of the late Mario Puzo to create a prequel to The Godfather, a novel titled "The Family Corleone":Mario Puzo's b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/the-family-corleone-prequel-to-the-godfather/
