Despite the fact that everyone farts, and everyone knows that everyone farts, some people are horrified by the thought that someone else will know they fart. For these particularly paranoid people, there's a new kind of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Deny-You-Are-Human-with-Shreddies/(Video Link)Action, adventure, romance and geekery, somehow the Star Wars theme song invokes all of these feelings -even in those too young to know the film itself. This little baby is either a born geek or the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Luke-Skywalker-In-His-Early-Years/Perhaps this isn't exactly the right image that comes to mind when you think about Japan, which is also known as the land of earthquakes, but somehow the Jenga House makes it work. Acclaimed architect Sou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Jenga-House/Ice Cream Cone TimerThanksgiving is right around the corner. Make sure everything is timed to perfection with the Ice Cream Cone Timer from the NeatoShop. This sweet little 60 minute timer is shaped like a strawberry ice...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Ice-Cream-Cone-Timer/The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring Sherman Oliver Holmes, a mysterious crime solver and great-great-grandson of Sherlock Holmes. Can you solve the crime?[moreless more_text="Meet Sherman H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Whodunit-The-Missing-Link/(Photo: Nakazawa-San)The challenge of using this backboard will be creating rules that players will want to use. Ilbot & Pons, a design studio in Berlin and Barcelona, designed it for Setouchi Trienn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Youll-Have-to-Invent-Your-Own-Rules-for-This-Game-of-Basketball/World War II veteran Harold Jellicoe Percival died in a nursing home in Blackpool, England. He was 99 years old and had outlived the rest of his family. The above obituary in the local newspaper went viral on Twitter and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/A-Veterans-Day-Funeral/(Video Link)Thor may look like a full-grown man, but that's only because Asgardians physically mature a lot faster than us humans. In fact, he's only about to turn 16 and like any young prince would be, he's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/I-Too-Would-Be-Super-Bummed-If-I-Couldnt-Go-to-Thors-Super-Sweet-16/This year when Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap, there's not much of a doctrinal problem blending the holidays. After all, Thanksgiving is not a religious rite, but a commemoration of American history focused on gratitu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/The-Menorah-Tree/Details matter in any quality endeavor, so the animation directors for The Simpsons provide specific instructions for how characters should be drawn and how they behave. From 1991 through 1993, the show publishe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Instructions-for-The-Simpsons-Animators/Artist Brian McCarty uses toys to illustrate children's descriptions of war they have witnessed. The descriptions come from humanitarian organizations that work with children in war zones, former war zones, and refugee c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Brian-McCartys-War-Toys/(Video Link)We all know that cats love boxes and bags -often more than the goodies and gifts that come inside them, but did you know putting a small hole at the end of a bag can make it even more incredibly fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Munchkin-Is-Big-On-Play-Time/The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces.That's the title of a 1943 book written by World War II embedded journalist Ernie Pyle. His stories put the fol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Here-is-Your-War/[http://youtu.be/t91KoQzAky4] (YouTube link)These three young folks may have seen the earlier video How to Empty a Swimming Pool, and decided to make the most of the last pool party for this pool. But something tells me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Destroying-the-Pool/Batman Santa HatHoly Santa hats, Batman! Santa is wearing your mask. Now you can dress up as your favorite masked gift giver with the Batman Santa Hat from the NeatoShop. This great hat features white fur trim, pom,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Batman-Santa-Hat/Halloween may be over, but it's never too late to appreciate an epic piece of Halloween decor like this and it's never too early to start planning your display for next year. Halloween Forum user Raven's Hollow Cemetery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/The-Most-Epic-Halloween-Decoration-Yet/[http://youtu.be/gy2cOAN4Tf4] (YouTube link)You probably didn't realize it, but cancer currently takes the lives of a quarter of all dogs and one out of every eight cats. In a video from Ontario Veterinary College, dogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Dogs-Sing-For-A-Cure/A flashlight powered by your body temperature would be really useful for power outages or camping. Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old student from Victoria, British Columbia, developed a flashlight that does just that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/11/Flashlight-Powered-by-Body-Heat/Forestiere Underground Gardens features sunken gardens and underground rooms from ten to 22 feet below the land's surface. And it was all the work of one man, with just a pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow! Baldasare Forestie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/A-Century-old-Subterranean-Garden/K-9 is a robotic dog on Doctor Who. He’s most famous as a companion to the Fourth Doctor, though he did make an appearance with the Tenth Doctor in the 2006 episode “School Reunion.”K-9 address...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/His-Masters-Voice/Isn't this a lovely patch of wildflowers? They're probably delicious, too -the flowers are made of sugar paste! Each flower and leaf was handmade by the folks at Rosalind Miller Cakes for the Experimental Food Society Sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Sugar-Meadows/[http://youtu.be/ARM42-eorzE] (YouTube link)Domino experts Hevesh5 and Millionendollarboy worked three months to set up this insane domino array. The beauty of this fall is not in the number of dominos -there are about 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Insane-Domino-Tricks/Jessie Oleson Moore, the internet’s Cakespy, combined two perfect foods. There’s nothing like a big hunk of Boston cream pie for breakfast and a few slices of French toast for dessert. Now you can have them t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Boston-Cream-French-Toast/Two physicists have worked out the optimal way for men to avoid splashback at the urinal. Tadd Truscott and Randy Hurd of Brigham Young University, working in the fluid dynamics laboratory called the "Splash Lab," built...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/The-Physics-of-Urinals/There are over 7,100 known living languages being spoken in the world, and there's probably one single commonality in all of them: a universal word that binds all humanity and underscores that we are all often in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Huh-is-a-Universal-Word-that-Binds-Confused-Humans-Together/Penguin Cupcake Decorating KitWant to create dressed up holiday desserts, but fear you just lack the talent or creative juices to make it happen? Not to worry. Now you can cheat your way to sweet perfection with the Peng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Penguin-Cupcake-Decorating-Kit/(Photo: Lorenzo Monteforte)Lorenzo Monteforte spotted this sign in London’s subway system. There are apparently numerous ghosts infesting the London Underground. And “infesting” is the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Ghosts-of-the-London-Underground/What's better than a usual animal rescue story? How about one that also involves LEGOs? That's just what you get when you read about Schildi, a pet turtle that was found wandering the streets of Germany. Unfort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Schildi-Knows-How-to-Roll/[http://youtu.be/VMpOL5OQYoI] (YouTube link)Tyler Bain, a 7th grade student at Pine Tree Junior High School in Longview, Texas, was injured in a car wreck and has been confined to a wheelchair for ten years. He's a big f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Tyler-Surprises-His-Teammates/On Thursday, Google’s Motorola Mobility division filed a patent claim in the U.S. It’s for a very thin electronic device that attaches the skin of a user’s throat—what the inventors call an &ldquo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/10/Google-Patents-a-Throat-Tattoo-with-a-Built-in-Lie-Detector/
