Ah, the irony: Chimfex Flame and Fire Suppressant combat chimney fires! Smother flames quickly, safely, NO water damage.Due to a fire at the Factory the Chimfex product is no longer availabl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/fire-suppressant-maker-suffered-factory-fire/A couple of days ago, first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams returned safely from the International Space Station.Ansari had become a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/space-tourist-returned-safely/The remote control farting teddy bear, perfect for mischievous pranksters everywhere, is now available for just $12.85: http://www.harrietcarter.com/Detail.cfm?pth=13&Cat=37&prod=6269&sr=24 - via Coolest Gadge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/remote-control-farting-teddy-bear/Neatorama reader Lewis Jaffe has a quirky blog about collecting bookplates or ex libris [wiki] (a printed piece of paper pasted on the inside front cover to show the ownership).Lewis' collection is fanta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/vintage-bookplates/From the website:Was there a greater character in history than Vincent Van Gogh? A man who chopped off his ear in the name of love. With the Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure, you can see him in both ways; be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/van-gogh-action-figure/Save time and exercise while you work with Geek-a-Cycle! http://www.slimgeek.com/ - via Cynical-C....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/getting-geeks-to-exercise-with-geek-a-cycle/From Grand Illusions toy shop:The Polyorama originally dates from the mid 18th century, and consists of a series of illustrated cards which combine to form an 'endless landscape' - you can place the cards...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/30/polyorama-endless-landscape/Poor little mosquitoes [wiki]. One minute they're just minding their own business, stopping to quench their thirst, and then whap! Suddenly their lives come to a screeching halt. Well, don't feel too sorry for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/five-very-good-reasons-to-swat-those-mosquitoes/Beckysweb has a neat sudoku game, where instead of numbers, you use photos from Flickr (you can even select your own tag!). This one is the hamster sudoku: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/hamster-sudoku/Karly Manley does some truly awesome beadworks, see more of her creations at: Born of Beads...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/karly-manleys-beadworks/David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey of the Dalhousie School of Architecture decided that the world will be a better place if you can walk on grass - even in the urban concrete jungle - so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/grass-wheel/Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, who made the design group He He, made this very cool light system called Light Brix. Each light are touch-sensitive and will brighten and dim in response to your touch!Link (don't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/light-brix-light-graffiti/Photo: ycvisual.netRacegreathouselabs is a cadre of inventors and robot enthusiasts Lance and Jim Greathouse, Scott Brown and Richard Friedberg. They've made numerous robots and machines for the Fire Arts Fest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/29/fire-breathing-robots/A fantastic ad for Travelers, inspired by Katamari Damacy. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via A Welsh ViewSee also: Katamari-like Giant Ball of Jeans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/travelers-ad-snowball/Brazilian artist Icaro Doria uses a country's flag to poke fun, ... er, raise some interesting viewpoint about certain characteristics of that country, for this advertisement for Grande Reporta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/icaro-dorias-flags/Illegal tiger skin trade in Tibet is so bad that when investigators from UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency and India's Wildlife Protection Society found a tent made up of 108 tiger skins! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/tiger-skin-tent/Jean-Jerome Casalonga has a neat list of some of the world's oddest watches: Link - Thanks Yayo!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/worlds-oddest-watches/In 1912, while working for Parke-Davis pharmaceutical, chemist Wilbur Scoville devised a test to measure the piquancy (that's "hotness") of various chili peppers.This one is the Naga Jolokia pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/the-hottest-chili-pepper-in-the-world/Designed by Scott Franklin, this underwater lamp is strange, mesmerizing, with a hint of danger: The WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/glowing-water-lamp/German artist Bettina Kaminski's "Mini the Pooh," at just 5 mm tall, is the world's smallest Teddy Bear!Link [in Russian] | Bettina's other miniature dolls [in German] - Thanks Spluch!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/worlds-smallest-teddy-bear/Why bother with sit-in protest when it's miserable and rainy outside when your avatar can do a virtual sit-in?From EastSouthWestNorth blog:In Taipei, there is the real-life A Million People Sit-In To Dump...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/28/virtual-sit-in-protest/So simple it's genius: Gambia's voting system uses marbles and bells to prevent people from voting more than once:Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/voting-with-marbles-in-gambia/From Pink Tentacle, an excellent blog about all things Japanese:According to the Yume-Neko Smile homepage, the cuddly robot makes a suitable alternative for anyone unable to keep a real cat. Five sensors at di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/yume-neko-smile-the-cat-robot/Artist Dominic Wilcox put a lightbulb in a bag of polystyrene balls and discovered that it looked like light passing through a cloud, so the Nimbus cloud ceiling light was born: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/dominic-wilcoxs-nimbus-cloud-lamp/This H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Flash game is based on a simple premise: shoot the zombies before they kill you. Link [Flash] - Thanks Tim Mosley!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/de-animator-by-bum-lee/The Joby Gorillapod goes where no tripod has gone before: on tree branches, rocks, uneven surfaces ... anything!Link - Thanks Audi Meyer!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/joby-gorillapod/US Biotech company Allerca has created the world's first hypoallergenic cat for allergy sufferers:US biotech firm Allerca says it has managed to selectively breed them by reducing a certain type of p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/hypoallergenic-cat/Confucius was a famous Chinese thinker and philosopher whose teachings deeply influenced the East Asian life and thought.But what does he look like? Now we know:The China Confucius Foundation (CCF) o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/finally-what-confucius-looks-like/What's so special about this dirt bike? More power of a Honda CRF150, weighs 100 pounds LESS, but silent. This bike is extremely powerful. This is not a toy!It begins with a 19+ horsepower (14,400...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/27/electric-dirt-bike/Urban Fiction is Xing Danwen's ongoing art project, where she takes photographs of architectural models of buildings in China: The architectural structures that I photographed are all maquettes made to pro...
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