A reader at Everyday, No Days Off sent in this picture of a chess set made by a US Marine deployed in Afghanistan. The kings and queens are .50 caliber cartridges and the rooks are 40 mm grenade cases. Link | Prev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/02/chess-set-improvised-by-marine-in-afghanistan/(Video Link) Garage genius Jörg Sprave, who invented the machete-firing crossbow, has made a multi-shot slingshot that repeats like a Gatling gun: The Slingshot Channel took the challenge to design a rubber powere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/25/gatling-gun-slingshot/Punt guns were enormous shotguns used to hunt waterfowl in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. They were so heavy that they were normally attached to small boats called punts and the boats were then pointed as birds rest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/15/punt-guns/Photo: Plastic debris found in the gastrointestinal content of a juvenile green turtle captured in Argentina / Victoria González Carman.Stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/22/plastic-content-of-a-sea-turtle/The 35 mm film may be gone forever on its way out, but it can still live in our hearts and our night table as this digital (oh the irony) Film Clock ($99.95) from the NeatoShop. Shaped like a giant 35 mm cartridge film i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/18/film-clock/The roundworm caenorhabditis elegans is about 1 mm long when fully grown. Over time, scientists have mapped every cell in its body, including all 302 neurons in the brain and the approximately 5,000 connections between...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/17/good-news-scientists-make-progress-on-mind-control/The following is an article from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. by Susanne Fuchs1, Melanie Weirich1, Christian Kroos2, Natalie Fecher1, Daniel Pape3, and Sabine Koppetsch4 If one walks t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/08/time-for-a-shave-does-facial-hair-interfere-with-visual-speech-intelligibility/Anatoly Konenko, a Russian artist who specializes in miniatures, holds a Guinness World Record for having built the smallest aquarium in the world. It's 30 mm wide and holds 10 ml: The water has to be applied using a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/25/the-worlds-smallest-aquarium/This Valentine's Day, listen to your favorite music alongside the one you love.Share your music with this cute Robot Tunes for Two from the NeatoShop. It's a robot-shaped headphones splitter that lets two people listen t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/29/robot-tunes-for-two/Sunset Boulevard was a filigree of neon, offering up its incandescent scribble like a hasty autograph written to a sky that didn’t really care. Women teetered by on clear plastic heels that looked as cheap and crushabl...
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