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Sonic Screwdriver Wedding Bouquet
A sonic screwdriver won’t work on wood, but it can do everything else at a wedding, from cutting the cake to officiating. Snarkbat’s turned into a bouquet made from the pages of a Sherlock Holmes...
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Honest and Creepy, Satire and Homage: Grant Wood’s American Gothic
Getty Images No American artwork has been parodied more than American Gothic. Zombies, dogs, Beavis and Butt-Head, the Muppets, Lego figures, and even Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton have taken a turn...
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The Pooping Duck Automaton
More than two centuries ago, French engineer Jacques Vaucanson built the Digesting Duck automaton, a mechanical duck that could eat and digest grains, and then … poop them out! The 18th century was...
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Beautifully Sculpted Portal Gun
Duncan Shirah makes amazing sculptures, usually out of wood and metal. This 1:1 scale Portal gun is perfect for steampunk adventures. Be sure to check out Shirah’s website, where there’s also a heroic...
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Curtain Door
Hello Neatoramanauts, look at your front door, now back to this one. Now back at your front door. Now back to this. Sadly, your front door isn’t the Curtain Door, designed by architectural firm...
View ArticleA Wooden Adding Machine
When I want to add two numbers, I use a calculator. Made of metal. But if you’re the awesome woodworker Matthias Wandel, you build a binary adding machine out of wood, then drop marbles into it in...
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The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States
We already looked at libraries in all the major continents, but there were so many great ones in the United States that the article featuring libraries in North America had to leave many beautiful...
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Marilyn Sunderlin’s Amazing Gourds
Marilyn Sunderlin, an artist in Utah, takes dried gourds and turns them into colorful sculptures: I carve the gourds with a high-speed carving/engraving tool that is powered by compressed air, which I...
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The Twelfth Doctor
The good news is that he’s finally a ginger. He’s also bouncy. Bouncing is cool. Nerdache Cakes made this cake showing Tigger and Piglet battling for the future of the Hundred Acre Wood. Link -via...
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The Best Table Ever
A farmer in Cambridgeshire, England, discovered a massive 44-foot-long oak log in a peat bog last February. The wood had been perfectly preserved for 5,000 years! Cabinet makers Adamson and Low...
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