Way back before the modern age (like the 1980s), cheap handheld games were all the rage. Many of these were poor knock-offs of popular arcade games such as Ms. Pacman and Galaga. Others were completely original, su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/the-strangest-vintage-handheld-games/A collection of beautiful photos of Earth taken from space. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/earth-from-space/This is a clip from the British TV series The Real Hustle demonstrating a clever bar bet that one can always win. YouTube has scores of clips from The Real Hustle revealing tricks, cons, swindles and scams - fun stuff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/fun-bar-trick/By now, we all know what happens if you put mentos in diet coke, but what happens if you put one in a glass of Carlsberg beer?Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via advertising for peanuts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/carlsberg-beer-and-mentos/This nifty little keyring gadget called the Mandylion Password Manager lets you store up to 50 logins, safe combos, and passwords.There's a lot of password managers out there, but this one was vetted by the US military a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/keyring-password-manager-with-self-destruct-feature/Dad Can Do has a neat tutorial on how to make your very own magic wand, just like in the Harry Potter books! Link - via Craft...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/diy-harry-potters-magic-wand/Fogonazos blog has a short feature on David A. Johnston, the volcanologist who was first to report the Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in 1980 before being swept away by the blast:Johnston was manning an observatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/vancounver-vancouver-this-is-it/This courtesy "Thank You" light for your car debuted in 1934. Some 70 years later, here's the modern version!: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/the-thank-you-light-c-1934/Now here's a set of matryoshka dolls for us geeks: The wooden sets include the bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, and terabyte figures.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/geeky-matryoshka-dolls-from-bit-to-terabyte/The Smoking Gun has another collection of mug shots featuring t-shirts with slogans (previous post). If you can’t see the example on the left, it says, “Trust me. I do this all the time.†I believe th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/more-mugshot-fashions/A "water-soluble form of chitin" -- the stuff you have to peel off your shrimp, which is the same stuff that goes crunch when you step on a cockroach -- is already being used by the army and is set to be tested...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/the-healing-power-of-shrimp-shells/Speculation is that this video is viral marketing for the Cloverfield movie (also called 1-18-08), for the Halo film, or for the videogame Crysis (links go to Wikipedia). What do you think? Push play or go to YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/ufo-over-haiti/Professor Robert Krampf demonstrates how to make a flame shoot out of an orange peel, move water with static electricty, or blow smoke rings out of a bottle. These are simple experiments most people could do at home, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/experiment-of-the-week/This cabin cruiser has been precariously balanced on top of mooring poles for two weeks, since flooding on the Avon River raised the water level ten feet. The £20,000 vessel is completely undamaged. It will be remov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/high-and-dry/North Denver News reported that Thomas Martel, 28, had his thumbs surgically altered so he could better use his iPhone. A new surgical technique called "whittling" involves making a small incision into both thumbs an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/11/man-undergoes-surgery-to-use-iphone/
