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Hair Dryer Made by Ferrari Engineers



Ferrari engineers designed the electric motor for this hair dryer. It's a fairly normal dryer, but the product specs make it sound like a high-performance vehicle:

FERRARI DESIGNED AC V12 engine
Powerful 2200W
Very long life up to 2000 hours
Airspeed 130km/hr
Airflow 95m3/hr
TURBO-shot instant boost airflow increases airflow pressure up to 15%
Intense air pressure 6.2 bar
Tri-port Ionic generator


It's available in black as well as the traditional Ferrari red.

Product Page via OhGizmo!

10 Weird Things You Can Actually Rent

Would you like to be harassed by photographers pushing into your personal life and publishing all the salacious details? There's a company that lets customers in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco rent paparazzi to follow them around. I found this on a list at Woman's Day of ten strange things that it's possible to rent. You can also rent wives, car parts, and bras.

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/10-Weird-Things-You-Can-Rent.html via The Presurfer | Photo by Flickr user nordicdesign used under Creative Commons license

Jigsaw Puzzle Wooden Floor



Angus Hines cut plywood into jigsaw puzzles pieces, coated them with polyurethane, and made them the floor of his Carrollton, Virginia home. The Flickr set at the link shows the progression of his work.

Link via Make | Artist's Website | Photo: Angus Hines

English Professor Kicked out of Starbucks for Refusing to Use Starbucks' Jargon

Lynn Rosenthal, a college professor of English, is a stickler for correct grammar. She doesn't approve of Starbucks' word usage, and after an argument with a barista, she was forcibly removed from a Starbucks location in New York City:

"I just wanted a multigrain bagel," Rosenthal told The Post. "I refused to say 'without butter or cheese.' When you go to Burger King, you don't have to list the six things you don't want.

"Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English."

Rosenthal admitted she had run into trouble before for refusing to employ the chain's stilted lexicon -- balking at ordering a "tall" or a "venti" from the menu or specifying "no whip."

Instead, she insists on making a pest of herself by ordering a "small" or "large" cup of joe.


Link via Geekosystem | Photo by Flickr user tristanf used under Creative Commons license

What is a Ph.D.?

Matt Might, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, created a set of circular diagrams to explain the significance and impact of a doctoral degree. He uses them to explain to incoming doctoral students what they're pursuing. The first, a circle, represents the sum of all human knowledge. Click on the link to view the sequence.

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Jacob Dahlstrup's Banana Boats



Copenhagen-based artist Jacob Dahlstrup makes sailing vessels out of bananas, such as the above work entitled "Banana Schooner". They were recently on display at the Shoreditch Town Hall in London. You can view several other examples at the link.

http://www.jacobdahlstrup.com/gallery_334418.html via Super Punch | Shoreditch Town Hall | Photo: Jacob Dahlstrup

Bold Explorer Vows to Traverse the Length of Britain -- on Google Street View

At 27 years old, Matthew Partridge has decided to take up a great challenge. He will walk the length of Britain, from Land's End to John O'Groats. And Partridge has chosen a uniquely challenging form of travel -- clicking through Google Street View:

He said: "I can't be bothered with all the training, planning and hardships of actually doing the walk. That's why I've come up with this alternative."[...]

He's even limbered up with a bit of training — building up to two-hour stints in the evenings. He said: "You can cover 400 yards in about ten seconds."


And yet they say that young people these days have no ambition.

Link via reddit | Photo of Land's End by Flickr user Tanenhaus used under Creative Commons license

Box Sculpture



"Boxel" is a sculpture created by architecture students at the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold, Germany. It's built out of more than 2,000 empty beer boxes:

the temporary construction was designed using parametric software to control the position of the boxes in relation to the overall geometry and to analyze the structural performance. in order to define the construction concept and the detailing of the connection several static load tests were made to understand the structural behaviour of the unusual building material, especially since the empty beer boxes were not stacked onto but freely organized next to each other. in parallel to a series of shearing and bending tests in the university’s laboratory of material research the structural concept was simulated and optimized using fem-software.


Link via DudeCraft | Photo: Dirk Schelpmeier and Marcus Brehm

The World's Longest Email Address

A man named Peter Craig claims to have, at 345 characters, the world's longest email address. Here it is:

contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubber-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try-to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.this-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-such-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com


Link via The Presurfer | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user npslibrarian used under Creative Commons license

Floating Head: A Modern Romance


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Floating Head is a sweet and touchingly romantic horror film about a severed, bleeding, screaming head. A film by Ben Dickinson and Waverly Films.

via Geekosystem

Previous Waverly Films Featured on Neatorama:
The Lyrebird Remix
Misfortune Cookie

Jar of Elvis Presley's Hair Auctioned

Several items of Elvis Presley paraphernalia were sold at an auction yesterday in Memphis. These included a jar full of his hair kept by Elvis' barber:

The most talked about item, Elvis famed white piano, failed to sell Saturday night. It had a starting price of half a million dollars and was valued at up to a million dollars. Auction organizers say they think the economy kept people from bidding.

When it was all over, the Elvis gear up for auction brought-in more than $650,000. Someone bought a jar of Elvis' hair for nearly $17,000.


Link via Nerdcore | Photo: Heritage Auctions

Crunched Billboard



The Amélie Company, a Denver-based ad agency, made this billboard for the State of Colorado to promote safe driving. The text at the bottom reads "Tailgating Isn't Worth It. Give Trucks Room. It's The Law." The agency wrote:

The Colorado State Patrol wanted to call attention to the dangers of driving aggressively around commercial motor vehicles. Our target audience was the typical mid-twenties male commuter who considers himself a good driver, but is actually a menace. We stayed away from scare tactics and instead created a graphic, bold campaign that used language familiar to our target and that would be very memorable to the audience as a whole.


Link via Super Punch | Photo: Ads of the World

Armless Man Plays Piano with His Toes


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Assuming that I've been given correction information about this Chinese-language video, Liu Wei lost his arms in an electrical accident when he was 10 years old. But he can still play the piano very well using his toes, as demonstrated on an episode of China's Got Talent. The music starts at 2:15.

via reddit

Dolls with Pirate Hooks



We've previously featured a cat surgery-themed valentine by Hine Mizushima. One of her more recent works is called "Sea Cuties", and consists of dolls with pirate hooks for hands. They'll be on display at the Plush You LA crafting festival during August and September of this year.

Link via Super Punch

Airline Pillow Fight


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A pillow fight broke out on a recent Lufthansa flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt:

In video captured on a passenger's cell phone, the woman is seen tossing pillows around the cabin after being bombarded by playful French tourists.

The German airline even paid tribute to the attendant for making the flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt more enjoyable.

A Lufthansa spokeswoman told AOL Travel News: "It's an example of passengers enjoying themselves in economy class. And it shows we still offer pillows to our passengers in economy class."


Link via Ace of Spades HQ

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