The name is just right - it describes your company perfectly, but before you order up the business cards, perhaps you should Google the acronym. Our pal mental_floss has 10 examples of innocuous names that turned out to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/when-acronyms-go-bad/Psst! Need a girlfriend? There's an app for that! Well, a virtual girlfriend anyhow. Nelson Abalos of Pixelated Geek blog interviews the Angelina Amerson, the producer of MyVirtualGirlfriend:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/need-a-girlfriend-theres-an-app-for-that/A sweet, innocent-looking mailbox? Wait till you see what's inside. It's actually a house and charging station for a perimeter quadrocopter drone:The Scandicraft is a Norwegian quadrocopter drone that has its own lit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/perimeter-quadrocopter-drone-has-cute-mailbox-as-house/(Video Link) Researchers at the Human-Robot Interaction Center of Saitama University in Japan have developed a wheelchair that tracks and follows ambulatory companions. Sensors gauge the distance and direction of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/robotic-wheelchair-follows-you-around/What do you get when you leave a yummy corn on the cob to a backyard full of fat squirrels? Mark Svoboda of Richmond, Virginia shot what is surely one of the funnest squirrel videos you'll see today! Squirrels + Corn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/squirrels-corn-funnest-squirrel-video-youll-see-today/This one is pretty nifty: LEGO has a new kit that lets you build the Tower Bridge of London (complete with the iconic red Double Decker bus and the Black Cab) out of LEGO bricks. LinkLego, Bridge, London, bus, tower brid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/tower-bridge-of-london-lego-kit/What means the most to an engineer? That's the question posed by this ad for (a now defunct company) RCA. Apparently, keeping their engineers happy did not prevent the demise of the company. Linkengineer, RCA...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/what-means-most-to-an-engineer/I've been meaning to read China Miéville ever since Perdido Street Station was recommended in this Bathroom Reader post 10 Sci-Fi Books That Even Non-Geeks Would Love on Neatorama a while back (I'm slowly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/china-miville-inspired-art/Researchers at MIT developed the Copenhagen Wheel -- an electric motor that they say can attach to almost any bicycle. The team says: There is no external wiring or bulky battery packs, making it retrofittable in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/new-gadget-adds-electric-motor-to-any-bicycle/Jason McDonald, a fan of Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead series has mapped out major events from the comic book series. Markers on this interactive map illustrate exactly where all the action goes down. It's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/annotated-walking-dead-google-map/Perception of color by the human eye is surprisingly dependent on colors surrounding the object in question. All of the hearts in the checkerboard above are exactly the same cyan color, even though they appear to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/visual-illusions/Archaeologists working in Ethiopia have discovered grooves in animal bones indicating that they had been subjected to work with stone tools. If this conclusion is accurate, the earliest tool use by hominids dates back t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/new-archaeological-find-pushes-back-first-tool-use-1-million-years/The internet's been loaded with video of Justin Beiber being hit in the head with a water bottle at one of his concerts, but like most internet fads, it wasn't truly funny until it was remixed with autotune. Now you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/justin-beiber-water-bottle-remix/On Wednesday, the largest clock in the world began operating. It is mounted 400 meters into the sky on a skyscraper dominating the skyline of the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. Measuring 43 meters across, it's hoped that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/a-plan-to-build-the-worlds-largest-clock/Harvard University graduate student Bill Rankin owns the site Radical Cartography. It's filled with unique and imaginative maps, such as the above world map plotting relative population by lines of longitud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/world-population-map-by-longitude/Hooray! It's time for our weekly What Is It? Game! Can you guess what this strange swirly object above is?Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please - though you can enter as many as you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/what-is-it-game-149/1. Naaktgeboren When Napoleon seized the Netherlands in 1810, he demanded that all Dutchmen take last names, just as the French had done decades prior. Problem was, the Dutch had lived full and happy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/12/6-common-baby-names-that-might-hurt-you/When Ithyle proposed to Angela he did it in a photo booth and made sure that the memorable moment was immortalized by the machine and the series of photographs that it takes. Link - via Jordan Ferneyengaged...
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