Retro gaming enthusiasts will remember the big bald baddie known as Abobo from his appearance in the Double Dragon games from the 80s and 90s. He's large, moustachioed, packs a mean punch, and now stars in h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/play-the-retro-inspired-game-abobos-big-adventure-for-free/The future of portable gaming looks pretty sweet, thanks to Razer's newest innovation Project Fiona, which looks like a tablet but has a gaming PC worth of power under the hood. With Intel's Core i7 processors, bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/razer-unleashes-a-tablet-hybrid-gaming-pc/(YouTube Link) It seems like every movie trailer with any trace of geek interest gets sweded by fans then put on YouTube, so why should the trailer for the upcoming Peter Jackson film The Hobbit be left out?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/the-hobbit-trailer-gets-the-sweded-treatment/Oscar the Grouch Backpack | $16.95 Look, it's Oscar -with sunglasses! How cool is this? It's a Sesame Street Junior Backpack featuring Oscar the Grouch at the NeatoShop. The toddler size backpack has padded adjustable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/oscar-the-grouch-junior-backpack/This adorable old picture would have made a great postcard. It is part of a collection of photographs of Dutch life published in the 1906 book De Aarde en haar volken (The Earth and Its People). See more at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/dutch-boys/On April 7, 1994, pilots Captain David Sanders and Captain Jim Tucker took off in a FedEx cargo jet from Memphis. Andy Peterson was their flight engineer. Also aboard was Auburn Calloway, a FedEx flight engineer who was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/aches-on-a-plane/About two miles (three kilometers) per hour. That's the conclusion of a group of researchers at the University of Sidney, who found that the walking speed of adults correlated inversely with their risk of death. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/how-fast-does-the-grim-reaper-walk/NASA posted a map detailing the "Aboveground Woody Biomass" in the continental United States (in other words, trees). Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) recently worked with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/where-the-trees-are/(YouTube link) The line from Apocalyse Now has been used and reused and adapted in so many other movies that YouTube member dondrapersayswhat made them into a supercut. Contains NSFW language. -via The Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/i-love-the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning/There are all kinds of reality-based television shows built around what people do: their workday, their obsessions, their love lives -so why don't television producers reach out to the world of gamers? Unreality has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/reality-shows-for-the-gaming-industry/In the play Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, we see a stage direction that has caused mouths to drop open since the 17th century: “Exit, pursued by bear.” Those who wrote about it mostly assumed he me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/shakespeares-bear/Many of the pools in this list are spectacular because of their location or view, but the pool at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas has a shark aquarium in the middle of it! The salt-water aquarium is separated fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/9-awesome-hotel-pools/The song by Journey came out thirty years ago, but after its initial hit status, "Don't Stop Believin'" got more mileage thanks to the TV shows The Sopranos and Glee. After all this time, I just learned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/the-great-mistake-lurking-in-dont-stop-believin/It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what these things are? Or maybe you can amuse us with an entertaining wild guess! Place your guess in the comment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/what-is-it-game-209/January is filled with weird holidays, from Run Up The Flag Pole and See if Anyone Salutes Day (January 2) to Play God Day (January 9) to Measure Your Feet Day (January 23), but of all the strange holidays this month, pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/17-great-geeky-hats-for-national-hat-day/This unlikely romance actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it-they're both prone to violent fits of rage, he is more swine-like than Kermit will ever be, and they both enjoy spending time touring the st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/miss-piggy-meets-her-new-beau-in-outer-space/In today's fast paced world, sometimes we aren't walking fast enough to keep up with everyone else, or we simply don't have to energy to walk but still have places to go. That's where the spnKiX come in-they're mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/too-lazy-to-walk-then-get-some-motorized-shoes/These awesome sculptures are obviously inspired by toys, yet their style and subject matter would be lost on children. From a Kim Jong-Il potato head to a Virgin Mary shaped jet, Stephen Ives celebrates childhood in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/amazing-toy-mod-sculptures-by-stephen-ives/We've seen book landscapes before, but there's so much potential for the concept behind Kyle Kirkpatrick's carved book dioramas. Imagine a gripping scene from your favorite novel carved into a copy of it. Which scene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/diorama-book-carvings/Randall Munroe of xkcd reminds us that we humans are gradually losing our competitive advantage with computers. Our only hope is look at Calvinball as not only a game, but a way of life. Link -via Nerd Ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/cling-to-our-calvinball-advantage/Elisabetta Rogai isn't the first painter to use wine, but she may be the first to make it work. The challenge is that the color of wine changes over time, sometimes in unplanned and unpleasant ways. But Rogai found t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/paintings-in-wine/A newly-discovered frog, Paedophryne amauensis, is not only the smallest frog species, but the smallest vertebrate ever found. The frogs were found in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, living among fallen lea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/worlds-smallest-frog/Adi Zaffran's design is simple but elegant. It's probably dangerous, too. But if you want to create a functional toaster using as few parts as possible, this would be the way to do it. http://adi.designgroup.co.il...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/cinder-block-rebar-wood-plank-toaster/Are you just looking for love and it seems to be hiding from you? This Viper probe droid knows how you feel. Chris Gerringer created eight prints illustrating the frustrations of mechanical love for the droids from *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/lonely-droids/The Freetail Brewing Co. of San Antonio, Texas discovered that the name of one of its beers was claimed by another company. It learned this fact when it received a threatening letter from the attorney of that company...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/hilarious-response-to-cease-and-desist-letter/(YouTube link) Joseph Herscher turns the page of his newspaper with flair. If you are a bit confused by some of the steps, they are all explained in an interactive graphic at the New York Times. Link -via Cynical-CRub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/the-page-turner/Garden Plate | $14.95 Do you have a fussy eater on your hands? Make meals fun again with the Garden Plate from the NeatoShop! This fabulous plate comes complete with ramps and breaks to separate food into groupings....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/the-garden-plate/Bryan Lenning made a poster of pictograms for the titles of each James Bond film. It was selected as one of the winners of a James Bond art contest at Superpunch. Go see the rest of the winners! Link -via Laughing Sq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/james-bond-film-titles-in-pictograms/In an issue of Ladies Home Journal published in 1900, an author made predictions of what the world would be like in the year 2000. Surprisingly, many of them were spot-on. Open fires and chimneys will be replaced by hom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/11/1900s-future-gazing/Everyone loves to see the ice cream truck coming down the street! And in their heyday they were designed to be pleasant -even if they are only pleasant memories. Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of spiffy ice crea...
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