The night vision goggles that the military uses are useful but bulky, and they require a lot of power. Now, scientists from the University of Florida have developed a thin, flexible film that uses LEDs for night-vision t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/night-vision-for-your-eyeglasses/Back in stock at the NeatoShop: Polluted Glass, a set of 2 glass tumblers shaped like 55-gallon barrel. Perfect for drinks so strong they're practically toxic! Linkglassware, polluted glass, toxic waste, 55gallon barrel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/polluted-glass-2/While there are tips available on how to perform mouth-to-snout resuscitation on a dog, Moriah Deno never learned them. However, she had recently been learning CPR as a lifeguard, and found herself in an emergency situat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/mouth-to-snout-resuscitation-saves-dogs-life/Engaged geeks Dale Larson and Laura La Gassa commissioned artist Yiying Lu to make their wedding invitations. Lu is best known as the creator of Fail Whale, once used extensively at Twitter. Since the wedding invitatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/win-penguins/The computer generation has become nostalgic. The blog How I Met Your Motherboard collects photographs and stories from the days before computer nerds ran the world. Consider the memories Laura has of 1984. Along wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/tales-of-early-computing/From top left, going clockwise: Art by Alexandra Petersen, Debbie L. Foster, Nicole Linde, and Shanon PlayfordArt in Hand - The Portland Project invited 54 local artists from Portland, Oregon, to transform an ordinary de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/art-in-hand-portland-project-playing-cards-art/If you happen to be in Pittsburgh in May, check out this art show by Neatorama's artist extraordinaire Nathan Mazur (he drew the NeatoTurtle at the bottom of our webpages) and Jessica LaVecchia: Zombo Gallery, Pittsb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/cute-creepy-art-show-by-nathan-mazur-and-jessica-lavecchia/At some universities, students can design their own majors. Jordan Goldklang of Indiana University is an illusionist, and is majoring in magic: Known as The Great Jordini to some, Jordan Goldklang is a senior fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/college-student-majoring-in-magic/The big box store Bed Bath & Beyond has got everything you could possibly want for your home, so naturally it makes a pretty good home itself for someone: Investigators said the boy ran away from home Sunday and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/runaway-lived-in-bed-bath-and-beyond/(YouTube Link) This is a video for Football Made in Africa, a film about the roles of soccer/football in African societies. It shows a boy inflating a condom and wrapping it in yarn to create a functional...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/how-to-make-a-soccer-ball-from-a-condom/Graphic designer David McCandless made an infographic that describes connotations associated with different colors in different cultures. It serves as the cover illustration for Information is Beautiful, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/infographic-on-what-colors-mean-in-different-cultures/If you love science cartoons, you'll love Mark Heath's No Brow Cartoons! Mark, who also drew the nationally syndicated Spot the Frog comic strip till 2008, is kind enough to allow us to adapt his awesome cartoons into T-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/dark-side-of-the-moon-by-mark-heath/[YouTube Clip]Fresh strawberries are delicious, but did you know that unless you wash them properly, you'd be eating a bit more than just fruit (technically an "accessory fruit")?Here's how you should wash your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/why-you-should-wash-strawberries-before-eating-them/When a restaurant couldn't pay for its purchases, a German meat supplier decided to repo the merchandise ... including steaks that are already cooked:A furious argument erupted in the kitchen after the man made his d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/meat-supplier-repod-steaks-from-restaurant-customers-plates/Do you wear your emotions on your sleeve? Well, with Vanessa Sorenson's Tweet Sleeve, you can do that a bit more literally. This gadget searches for keywords in your most recent tweets to gauge your mood and then d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/tweet-sleeve-wear-your-emotions-on-your-sleeve/Remember the guy police caught in a shop's ventilation system who claimed to have been playing a game of hide and seek? Well, a vent shaft may be a very good hiding place but that's nothing compared to this:The long,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/man-hid-from-police-in-a-vat-of-poo/If your parents ever said that watching cartoons is a waste of time, here's the perfect response: it may just save someone's life one day.Miriam Starobin saved her "BFF" Allyson Golden from choking by using the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/spongebob-helped-save-a-girls-life/The headline reads: Dog injures nose The story is short. The comments are priceless. Sounds harrowing. Keep us posted. It's outrageous that something like this is allowed to happen in this cou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/big-news-day-in-salisbury/New Scientist has a list of attempts to discern the limits of human endurance and survival. It answers (or tries to) these questions: 1. What's the human speed limit? 2. How long can we concentrate for?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/testing-the-limits-of-human-endurance/Among the many actors who have appeared on The West Wing TV show are quite a few who became big names afterward. You'll recognize them in reruns, even if you didn't know who they were the first time around. There are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/west-wing-guest-stars-quiz/At three days old, a pinto stallion at Tiz Miniature Horse Farm in Barnstead, New Hampshire weighted only six pounds and was only 14 inches tall. His was named Einstein. His tiny proportions may be more suitable for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/tiny-foal/Ostrich eggshells with patterns engraved on them were found in Africa dating back 60,000 years. The eggshells were used to carry water. The four different patterns and markings are repeated and believed to convey ow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/old-ostrich-egg-engraving/If you’re like me, you were counting the hours until the new season of Doctor Who premiered. For those of you who did watch it, did you like it? How did you feel about the new doctor, played by Matt Smith?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/doctor-who-what/The 1975 song Bohemian Rhapsody is a long strange song that became such a lasting hit that you know there's a fascinating backstory. The BBC produced an hour long show about it in 2004, in which Brian May and Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/the-story-of-bohemian-rhapsody/Watch as Boeing builds a 737-700 for Southwest airlines in only 2.5 minutes in this time-lapse video. This particular plane is named the Florida One, for its artwork featuring the state flag. The catchy music is a bonu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/26/building-an-airplane/
