Inspired by a reddit thread and the blog Life Advice from Machines, Twisted Sifter created inspirational images using instructions from computer hardware, household cleansers and even a jar of mayonnaise.I especiall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/The-15-Most-Unintentionally-Profound-Quotes/Crayums Ketchup & Mustard DispensersWho says you are too old to play with your food? May mealtime fun time with the Crayums Ketchup & Mustard Dispensers from the NeatoShop. These playful containers are shaped lik...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Crayums-Ketchup-Mustard-Dispensers/The movie Titanic premiered in 1997. In 2012, when we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, many of the movies' biggest fans were shocked to find out that it was real historical event. As kno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/25-Things-You-Didnt-Know-About-The-Movie-Titanic/(Video Link)People often complain that Hollywood uses too many CGI effects in their movies these days, finding a place for a CGI character in every genre from action to drama, but what audiences don’t know, or noti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/The-Unseen-Visual-Effects-In-Wolf-Of-Wall-Street/Caldwell Tanner lives in New York City, where it's a bit nippy out right now. Just a few days ago it was even chillier. This inspired him to sketch out a few clothing inventions that would actually be helpful the next ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/5-Winter-Clothing-Innovations-Wed-Actually-Use/Once upon a time, every new business hired a professional artist to design their signs, decorate their windows, and even cover the sides of their buildings. The sign painter was not only an artist, but a designer, typogr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Reviving-the-Tradition-of-Hand-Painted-Signs/(Video Link)If you happen to be strolling around New York City, and you come across an unattended baby stroller, chances are you're going to take a peek inside just to make sure all is well, but after you watch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Fake-Demon-Baby-Terrorizes-Folks-In-The-Big-City/DeviantART member Avalonis (Karen Graw) used photo manipulation to illustrate what Disney characters from their classic animated movies would look like in real life -that is, if they weren't animated. Can you guess who i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Real-Disney-Character-Faces/Here's a video of Captain Picard cutting a pizza with a pizza slicer shaped like the Enterprise (the original, not models A-E) while humming theme music from classic Star Trek.You're we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Patrick-Stewart-Cutting-a-Pizza-with-an-Enterprise-Pizza-Cutter/The Global Data Chandelier is a permanent and functional art installation at the new headquarters of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. It’s the brainchild of se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Its-a-Chandelier-and-an-Interactive-Map/The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.The father of classification was a curious fellowby Honoré Schoolcraft, Improbable Research staffCarl Linnaeus paid attention to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Linnaeus-the-Observant/Artists are currently using 3D printers to bring works to life that were previously nothing more than the stuff of imagination, shapes and forms generally thought of as too complicated, sharply angled and finely detailed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Amazing-3D-Printed-Geometric-Sculptures-By-Deskriptiv/[http://vimeo.com/79098420] (vimeo link)This video shows 3-dimensional renderings of some serious computer graphics experimentation. From the video description:We present a muscle-based control method for simulated biped...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Flexible-Muscle-Based-Locomotion-for-Bipedal-Creatures/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1wROm-OF9w](Video Link)"Have you ever been in this position: really nice bottle of wine, no corkscrew?" A representative of Mirabeau Wine, a winemaker in southern France, asks this q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/How-to-Open-a-Wine-Bottle-with-a-Shoe/A quiz by UsvsTh3m figures out how well you are prepared for the apocalypse. With just a little knowledge and hubris, I managed to live to the age of 105 (if the apocalypse happens soon). I don't think they take your cur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/How-Long-Would-You-Survive-After-the-Apocalypse/Since street art has become far more acceptable, and garnered a lot more fans due to media coverage of artists like Banksy, the pieces just keep getting bigger and bigger. The scene has gone from simple stencils painted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Derelict-Gas-Station-In-Ireland-Converted-Into-Street-Art-Installation/[http://vimeo.com/81902364#at=0] (vimeo link)It's no Frankenstein, but the story behind the story is almost the same. When hurricane Sandy interrupted production on the film Cold Comes The Night in upst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Writers-Block/Wonder Woman Computer SitterWork can be a lonely place. Invite a friend that stands for truth, justice, peace and sexual equality to hang out with you at the office. This super computer companion looks like your favorite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Wonder-Woman-Computer-Sitter/If you wanted to create a shrine to American childhood in the 1980s, these lamps should light it. Etsy seller Marty McFly (possibly not his real name) made these lamps by gluing together and painting *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Beautiful-Lamps-Made-from-Classic-Star-Wars-Toy-Sets/Want to win a NeatoShop tee shirt like the Geek Power shirt above? Then head over to our Facebook page, specifically this post, and tell us your favorite bit of absolutely useless trivia. The winner, as selected by those...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/You-Could-Win-A-Great-Geeky-Tee-Shirt-From-the-NeatoShop/[http://youtu.be/MFjcKxx-h7Y] (YouTube link)Dr. Jim Withers goes out on the streets of Pittsburgh at night to serve the medical needs of homeless people. He's been doing it for 22 years now. Other people joined him, whic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/House-Calls-to-the-Homeless/(Photo: Orycteropus)The Mangalitsa is a rare breed of pig from Hungary. It’s the result of a Nineteenth Century experiment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to breed a pig with very high fat content i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/The-Mangalitsa-is-a-Sheep-Pig/Believe it or not, there have been many international incidents, alliances, and cultural shifts that revolved around cakes, pies, and other assorted sweet treats. Consider the case of Eamon de Valera, a caper that became...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/11-Desserts-That-Changed-the-World/It looks like a vase and you can still keep your flowers watered, but you don't have to deal with storing a glass vase when you don't have flowers out. The Crown Vase, designed by Lambert Rainville, uses nothing mor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/The-Invisible-Flower-Vase/[http://youtu.be/alEXbzvr81k] (YouTube link)A 6-second vine video is the perfect place to show off some complicated special effects without the magic getting lost in exposition. When you put a lot of those great 6-second...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Zach-Kings-Magic-Vines/There is TONS of Hello Kitty merchandise out there for her millions of ravenous fans (need proof, just check out all the Hello Kitty goodies we have in the NeatoShop), but for some people, owning a dozen purses, bows and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/16-Utterly-Bizarre-Hello-Kitty-Tattoos/Monkeys Just Killed the Power in Pretty Much All of Zambia (Geekosystem)Someone Please Moisturize These Lady Cassandra Cookies (The Mary Sue)You Won't Believe These 10 Things Are 3D Printed (Shapeways)You Can Stay in an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Neatolinks-8/You're a cat. You break stuff. Simple as that.That's the concept behind the game Catlateral Damage. You are the cat, and your goal is to jump around the room and knock stuff to the floor, whether it's de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Catlateral-Damage/Grant Snider of Incidental Comics walks us down a path of encountering, exploring and even making art.I vividly remember, many years ago, turning a corner at the Birmingham Museum of Art and seeing the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Experiencing-Art/There are few accounts of conjoined twins from antiquity, so we tend to assume that they either didn't survive long or they were rejected or even killed as some kind of monster or bad omen. But that wasn't always the cas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Conjoined-Twins-in-10th-Century-Byzantium/
