In 1892, Arthur Hotchkiss patented what he called the "elevated railway." Hotchkiss and other innovators imaged rail travel for individuals by pedal-powered machines that rolled over specially-built rail networks. The fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/23/Invention-The-Railway-Bicycle/The Boston-based company Frigid Dynamics is the developer of the E-XC, which consists of a pair of motorized skis. These electric-powered machines have treads in the back that push the skier along the powder at high spee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/02/21/Electric-Skis-Are-Like-Wearable-Snowmobiles/YouTuber Builda Dad Garage builds extraordinary ve... ...barrels, and amphibious trikes.One of his recent inventions is a mechanized ladder that can push through snow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/All-Terrain-Motorized-Ladder/Neuropathy in the extremities--a loss of sensation--is an effect of diabetes. When a person with this condition loses sensation in the soles of their feet, they experience increased falling risks. Design Boom reports tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/28/Smart-Socks-Help-People-with-Diabetes-Feel-the-Ground/Design Boom reports that engineers at Northwestern University have developed a haptic feedback device that allows users to interact with digital environments with high resolution. The VoxeLite functions like a bandage th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/20/Bandage-Device-Lets-Users-Feel-Digital-Devices/Weird Universe tells us that Joseph Pilates (1883-1967), the developer of the popular exercise program that bears his name, invented numerous pieces of exercise equipment. He had a holistic approach to fitness, which pru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/10/Pilatess-V-Shaped-Bed/It's attached to a window and is found in Scandinavia. What is it? The answer is below the fold. It's a skvallerspegel. That's Swedish for "gossip mirror". Bjork Brodern says these can be found on some older streetside h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/10/What-Is-This-Thing-4/Fast Company reports on an epoch-defining technological development: the self-propelled zipper. YKK, the Japanese firm that is the largest zipper manufacturer in the world with possession of about 40% of the global marke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/Invention-The-Self-Propelled-Zipper/Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake is a grand tradition to celebrate the passage of life and hopes for its future. But it's also somewhat unsanitary. It's done with the breath of the celebrant and therefore conta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/29/Patent-for-Birthday-Cake-Spit-Shields/The design blog Core77 shares this clever invention. The set (single?) of eyeglasses has a single lens that flips back and forth on a hinge. This feature allows a person to put on eye makeup while seeing clearly through...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/23/Single-Lens-Magnifying-Glasses-for-Eye-Makeup/
