The Ford Motor Company’s European division has developed a system that monitors changes in speed limits as you drive. When a driver activates the Intelligent Speed Limiter on his car, he chooses a maximum speed. When the car exceeds that limit, it alerts the driver.
It also scans the road for speed limit signs. When it determines that the car is going over the speed limit in a particular area, it alerts the driver and stops accelerating. It doesn’t apply the brakes—it just takes its virtual foot off the gas. A driver can override the limiter by pressing on the gas pedal.
Tumblr user fatpeoplemakemehappy points out that “the one on the bottom right is trying real hard to be a good cupcake.” Good for him! He gets extra treats. The one in the center back, though, will need extra frosting when he’s done.
Think of Neatorama as the chubby penguin of the internet, although, technically speaking, only a third of the contributors are penguins.
The internet will charm and horrify you. It accentuates the extremes of humanity. Go ahead and read about the President hunting people for sport. Just make sure that you keep a kitten supply handy.
Munich, a city in southern Germany, is a few hundred miles from the sea. But it’s a great place to go surfing. That’s because a fast-moving river offers ideal conditions for wave riding. The Eisbach, a 2-km channel of the Isar River, has been used by surfers since the 1970s. It’s been legal since only 2010, so the local surfers had to be discreet. They also have to use boards that are optimal for river surfing. A 2013 report from the BBC explained:
HuskMitNavn (which apparently means “Remember My Name” in Danish) is an artist in Copenhagen. He does a lot of professional mind-bending, optical illusion art. But some of his most amusing works are common doodles on pieces of paper that he carefully folds, rolls, or tears to add to the story.
The odds of the live birth of 4 calves in one pregnancy are 1 in 11.2 million. It’s extremely rare, but it happened to Dora Rumsey-Barling, the owner of these 4 calves in rural northeastern Texas. She’s named them Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moo. They’re three bulls and one heifer. It’s such a rare event that Rumsey-Barling will have DNA tests taken on all four calves to prove that they’re quadruplets.
The mother cow can’t nurse all four calves, so Moo is staying with her while the three other calves are spending time with other caretakers.
The band OK Go is noted for its extraordinarilyelaboratemusicvideos that demonstrate fantastic creativity and precision. The people who makes these videos are true masters of the medium.
So when they turned to producing a commercial for a Chinese furniture store, they brought those skills into a furniture ad. Like a good horror movie, you can’t tell what is up and what is down; what is real and what is fake.
If I consistently needed a mad scientist in my employment, I’d go for Princess Bubblegum. She’s smart, resourceful, multidisciplinary, and reasonably ethical. But as Sanjay Kulkarni pointed out, most “mad scientists” are actually just mad engineers.
Chloe Cole and Tristan Cooper of Dorkly made this chart. Are there other mad scientists that belong on it?
This is Jaspreet Singh Kalra, 15, from Ludhiana, Punjab, India. They call him Rubber Man. He can rotate his head 180⁰, his arms 360⁰, and can dislocate both of his shoulders—then put them back into place! His body really does appear to be made of rubber because he can contort it into seemingly inhuman positions.
Jaspreet has been studying yoga since a young age. When he as 11, his family noticed that he seemed unusually talented. Jaspreet is so good that he thinks that he has a shot at the Guinness World Record title of the most flexible person in the world, which is currently held by Daniel Browning Smith.
Charoset is a mixture of fruit, wine, and spices. It’s a traditional part of the Seder meal eaten during Passover. The American ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s makes ice cream that is flavored like it. It's kosher, too! The company is rolling it out for this year’s Passover, which begins on April 3.
Poor Fritz! This Golden Retriever just wants to learn how to catch food when it's thrown to him. But his eye-mouth coordination is terrible. He's a klutz.
Maybe he'll get better. His human is certainly giving him motivation. Fritz gets only the best: a whole steak, a slice of pizza, a donut, a chimichanga, and more. Keep trying, Fritz!
De Bever Architects designed this bathroom for a home in Eindoven, The Netherlands. When viewed from a distance, the tilework on the bathroom walls turns into the hide of a giraffe. Anything that suggests an African safari is, of course, ideal for a visit to the toilet.
It looks like a snake unhinging its jaw to eat something that is just too big. But, yes, that’s a military cargo plane inside another military cargo plane. It’s the fuselage of a C-130 from the Rhode Island National Guard being fitted inside the belly of a C-5 Galaxy from the New York Air National Guard. The Rhode Islanders, no longer needing the C-130, offered it to the New Yorkers—provided that they could transport it. With careful planning and special equipment that they built, the loadmasters were able to slide the C-130 inside. The 109th Air Wing Public Affairs unit describes the effort:
The most challenging part of the process Sergeant Preece faced was obtaining a certification letter from Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He needed to prove that transporting the C-130 would be possible.
"I explained to them about the hydraulic unit we installed to lower the nose gear to prove that we could raise the mains and deflate the struts to get it to sit low enough," he said. "And then we had to build a shoring kit which was monstrous.
Building the shoring kit took about three weeks, and Tech. Sgt. Brian Irvin, another 139th AS loadmaster, helped figure out how they would build the kit.
"I would estimate that the entire shoring kit weighs about 22,000 pounds," Sergeant Irvin said. "The shoring kit angles and how we stepped it up was a lot of math and mental work. We had to get the fuselage approaching the C-5 at approximately the same angle as the C-5 floor. With such small clearance, if you're going in off-angle it's not going to work. It had to be very precise. We got copies of the flight manuals of the C-5 and we built the shoring kit to match that."
Sergeant Preece received the OK from Wright-Pat and all the hard work and preparation was finally tested Sept. 8 when the crew went down to Rhode Island to load the training fuselage.
"It went very smoothly loading the plane," Sergeant Preece said. "They gave us an eight-hour timeframe, and I think we did the whole thing in four hours."
"There was a lot of planning, I think we did a very good job anticipating as much as we could possibly ahead of time," Sergeant Irvin said. "Any time you are loading something that big with a couple inches to spare in clearance, there are going to be things you didn't think of.
The Dallas-based ad agency Moroch developed these gloves for McDonald’s. To make them look like French fries, press them into your face—which is what you should do with fries, too.
