They look like Wii accessories!

PHOTO IN THE NEWS: "Uncontacted" Tribe Seen in Amazon

May 30, 2008In a palm-hut encampment, members of an "uncontacted" Amazon tribe fire arrows at an airplane above the rain forest borderlands of Peru and Brazil earlier this month. The black and red dyes covering their bodies are made from crushed seeds and are believed to signal aggression, native-rights experts say.

Released yesterday, the photoone of severalwas taken by officials from Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI).

Peruvian officials and energy interests have publicly expressed doubt that uncontacted tribes exist in the Amazon. (See "Oil Exploration in Amazon Threatens 'Unseen' Tribes" [March 21, 2008].)

But the new photos are more proof that uncontacted, seminomadic tribes do exist in the increasingly threatened Amazon rain forest, according to Survival International, an international indigenous-rights group that works closely with FUNAI.

"We are very confident the photos are genuine," said Miriam Ross, a spokesperson for Survival International, which estimates that half of the hundred or so uncontacted tribes in the world live in the rain forests of Brazil and Peru.

Some experts say few, if any, tribes have had no outside contact. It's more likely is that previous generations had negative encounters, prompting social taboos that continue to drive clans deeper into isolation.

Due to their vulnerable immune systems, these groups are highly susceptible to diseases borne by outsiders such as missionaries, loggers, or oil workers.

The new photos come just months after a similar one (see photo) captured apparently uncontacted natives collecting turtle eggs by a riverbank in the Peruvian Amazon, where energy development and illegal logging are on the rise.

Kelly Hearn

i read abotu this... how cool!

Magnetic fields

Now that is awesome.

Ok I'm a nerd I think that a steam punk R2D2 is cool

Waterslide in Germany. The vid is in German but you get the gist of it.

Long-exposure shots of beautiful old machines

John sez, "My next-door neighbor Harold Ross takes long exposure photos, 'painting' the objects with a fiber-optic wand or a flashlight. He just took some pictures of the Hagley Museum in Delaware. Hagley curates the history of American technology, and these antique, pulley-driven, but still VERY capable machines are just awesome." (Thanks, John!)

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Wayne: your video should go in Daily Scary Things. Did you see the amount of old geezers wearing speedos in that clip?

But it makes up for it with the last girl :P