US Navy submarines can receive messages while submerged, but can't respond without raising antennas and exposing themselves. That's why Lockheed Martin is developing a system of buoys that will be able to relay surf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/new-bouys-allow-submarines-to-communicate-while-submerged/What time is it? Why, let me consult MB&F's Horological Machines (don't you dare call it a watch) HM4 Thunderbolt:The sleek aerodynamic form of the Thunderbolt’s titanium and sapphire envelope has its roots...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/hm4-thunderbolt-watch/In Leonardo DiCaprio's latest movie Inception, characters can enter other people's dreams - in reality, science isn't that far behind:In one experiment, for example, researchers wired up a sleeper and connected him t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/science-can-tell-what-youre-dreaming/Image: Russell Taylor, Briana Whitaker and Briana Carstens / University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBeautiful flowers? Not quite - they're polymer pillars serendipitously photographed by researchers at the University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/polymer-flower/ABC's Nightline has a fascinating story about Edward Kagin, an atheist and provocateur, who conducted a mass "de-baptism" of fellow non-believers to symbolically dry off the baptism waters:Standing at a podium...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/atheist-de-baptizes-non-believers-with-hair-dryer/For several years, shrinking icefields in arctic and mountain regions have been revealing rare artifacts that had been covered by snow and ice for millennia. Most of these reports have come from Canada and Alaska,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/10000-year-old-atlatl-dart-found-near-yellowstone/Cat Butts Magnet Set - $10.95This is probably one of the strangest products we carry on the NeatoShop (and believe me, we carry a lot of strange stuff). Behold, the Cat Butts Magnet Set, a pack of 5 refrigerator magnets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/cat-butts-magnet/There's a sneaky bill that has just passed the California State Senate and is awaiting a vote in the Assembly, and it's really rocking geologists' boat:Empirically speaking, geologists are not a particularly irascibl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/california-wants-to-get-rid-of-its-state-rock/Handmade by Xavi GarcíaThere's more to the painting above than meets the eye. The unassuming painting by art student Xavi García is drawn entirely by hand and employs security measures commonly found in ban...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/handmade-money/File this under "Not My Job":The badger had been run over and killed more than a week earlier but council staff had failed to collect it.As a result a team of line painters came across the roadkill in the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/not-my-job/Tired of dealing with the rising number of accidents on the road, Indian police came upon a novel (and they say, surprisingly effective) approach: harnessing the positive-power of pyramids!The stretch of the Mumbai-K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/indian-police-tapped-the-power-of-the-pyramids-to-reduce-traffic-accidents/Having large sucker-like structures that allow them to stick to vertical surfaces isn't the weirdest thing about the sucker-footed bat of Madagascar. The real mystery that surrounds them is that no one has ever found a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/where-are-all-the-female-bats/Well, I've never been imprisoned and I hope I never will, but according to The Week magazine, life in New York's notorious Rikers Island prison isn't all that bad. At least not if you're a rap star like Lil Wayne:Hip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/prison-life-of-lil-wayne-sure-is-cushy/What's better than in surveillance than the omnipresent CCTV? Why, the ever-seeing eyes of the Senioritas, the eagle-eyed grandmas who keep watch from their aerial perch. From Scott Burnham:As I was working on my Urb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/the-ever-seeing-eyes-of-the-senioritas/Not believing that Dan Brown has unlocked the ultimate secret of the Mona Lisa, French researchers used X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to study the famous painting and discovered something amazing:Da Vinci used a re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/yet-another-secret-of-mona-lisa-revealed/(L) Watermelon (M) Orange (R) ArtichokeThe blog Inside insides is rather sparse on the details, but I suppose you don't really need anything more than the terse tagline of "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods"....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/mris-of-food/Paul Cassidy and his bride Vilma sure had a wedding to remember. I mean, how can anyone forget a day like this:First, a 16-month-old page boy turned blue and collapsed in front of the bride.He was recovering...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/a-wedding-to-remember-2/Here's another fun entry in the GTFO contest. This is the final weekend to get your entries in! On Sunday, at midnight PT, we'll lock it up. Voting will stay open for a week after that. For the full...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/last-weekend-to-enter-our-gtfo-contest-with-reddit/Whew, that was rough! Neatorama was down for quite a while, but we believe everything is back to normal now (cross your fingers). Blame a power outage at the server location. This is one of those things that remind us of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/this-week-at-neatorama-12/Scientists at the University of Arizona have created mosquitoes that are completely safe from the parasite that causes malaria. It does so by reducing the lifespan of the engineered mosquitoes. Most mosquitoes live onl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-are-100-resistant-to-malaria/Above, left to right:Mark IV, B.F. Goodrich; Mark II – Model "O", B.F. Goodrich, 1956; Mark V – Modified, B.F. Goodrich, 1968; Mark II – Model "R", B.F. Goodrich, 1956 These spacesuits look very retro today bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/spacesuits-at-the-smithsonian/The 1987 film The Last Emperor was a critical and box office smash. It won 9 Oscars and profits far exceeding its $24 million budget. It’s based on a true story – the life of Pu Yi, the final emper...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-last-emperors/Emergency Underpants - $4.45What's that thing moms always say? Semper ubi sub ubi? Well, in any case - you can never be too careful, so keep this Emergency Underpants from the NeatoShop at hand at all time.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/emergency-underpants/You know what they say -when you find a look that works, stick with it. However, if you look back far enough, you'll see that he's tried other styles as well. Link -via J-Walk BlogApple, clothing, steve jobs, appeara...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-evolution-of-steve-jobs/New Zealand design studio 326 created a lamp out of a drum on a stand. To turn it on and off, all you have to do is tap on it: http://www.endemicworld.com/drum-light.html (with video clip) - via NotcotLight, lamp, drum,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-drum-light/Many words are born from the name of the person associated with what that word means. An eponym is a word derived from a person’s name, whether real or fictional. In this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you'll be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-eponym-quiz/The city of Detroit has shrunk to a population of only 900,000 people -half as many as in the 1950s. Empty houses and businesses are apparent in every part of the city. City officials are weighing different plans for wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/detroit-gets-growing/OK, here's a Friday fun quiz from The History Channel. How fast can you answer questions on American history? Challenge yourself, or your friends with the Ultimate History Quiz. I scored 1,332 in the first game....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-ultimate-history-quiz/How about a strange interactive website for some Friday fun? Nails has ten 27 different scenarios to explore with your mouse. No, they don't make any sense, but you keep clicking anyway! Link -via Gorilla Maskinteractive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/nails/James Bond is one of the best and coolest guys in the film world. He is capable of almost anything, and has a ton of tricks up his sleeves. From the author who brought you 55 Tricks of Jason Bourne, here are 69 Tricks an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/69-tricks-and-tools-from-james-bond/
