Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

All the people that Batman has killed in movies

Batman’s not supposed to be killing people but when you’re a dark and reckless vigilante who is careless about explosions and has the emotional capacity of a Richie Rich gone wrong and is basically an insane person running the streets at night in black, it’s inevitable that you’ll punch out someone’s ticket. Here’s a collection…

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All the US Navy combat jets in history

To celebrate the ingenuity of flying beast machines, we created this awesome video that catalogs all of the US Navy’s combat jets. You’ll see modern jets like the Harrier and F-18 and F-35 along with old school, bad ass planes with names like Banshee and Phantom and Panther and Skynight. It’s a really cool visual…

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Hydrophobic sand turns to goo in water and magically turns back to sand when dry

Hydrophobic sand aka magic fairy dust isn’t something new. But seeing the effects of in action is always impressive. Just watch it go from sand into this metallic goo once it sinks into a cup of water. And even cooler, watch it transform back from goo into grains of sand once it exits the water.…

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A bomb of matchstick heads exploding in slow motion is like fire rain

What happens when you light 6,000 matchstick heads (that is only the tip of the match)? Basically a huge fire bomb explosion that looks like it’s raining fire. The match heads all ignite and burst a super tall flame in the air and then the match heads start flying everywhere and when it falls to…

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Submit your short film to the Sploid Short Film Festival 2015

The Sploid Short Film Festival is all about featuring filmmakers and celebrating storytellers and helping creators show off their work. If you think you have something special and want to share your short film, please feel free to submit your film for consideration in the Sploid Short Film Festival 2015. We’re constantly accepting submissions and…

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Seeing a cello get carved from wood and made by hand is so soothing

The cello is a gigantic instrument so it’s really no surprise that it basically takes an entire tree to make. What is impressive about the process of making a cello by hand though is just how long it takes to carve the wood down, to precisely cut out the shape, and to put all the…

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Watch the ocean’s five islands of garbage form over the last 35 years

The ocean is filled with alien-looking creatures, a lot of natural beauty and a crap ton of garbage. There is so much garbage in the ocean that fully formed patches of our filth have spawned. In this fascinating visualization, NASA reveals how the ocean’s 5 islands of garbage came to be. You can see the…

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Incredible overhead view of an oil tanker perfectly docking at a narrow port

The captain of this ship must be a master Tetris player or a savant when it comes to that time wasting iPhone parking game or at least, be the inventor of the three-point turn because his maneuvering of this tanker, the Galway Fisher, into the narrow Port of Galway is simply incredible to see from…

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Hilarious video shows all the weird and random weapons used in movies

Here’s something fun and super silly: Burger Fiction created this supercut of a bunch of weird weapons used in movies. We’re talking guitar case flamethrowers, guitar case rocket launchers, ladders, fork fingers, carrots, vinyl records, paintbrushes and so much more. It’s great because there are both serious movies and totally campy flicks in the mix.…

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Map shows the gender breakdown of Ashley Madison users across the world

The hacked data on Ashley Madison revealed that 90% to 95% of Ashley Madison users were male. That’s a lot of husbands! To visualize Ashley Madison’s gender disparity across the world, Malfideleco drew a line in the sand of 85% male users and plotted out which cities and countries have more male users than that…

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Watch a guy jump nearly 200 feet off a cliff and plunge straight into the water

Is jumping nearly 200 feet off a cliff considered flying? Or is it just straight insanity? Because Laso Schaller just basically cliff dived a jump (fell a distance?) that would be taller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You can watch multiple angles of the jump in which he reached a speed of 76mph as…

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Trippy hyperlapse of Los Angeles captures its unique beauty

Los Angeles is too big and unwieldy to be considered a real city, especially since the only aspect of city life is the collective 5 mph spurts on the freeway during rush hour. Not to mention that its machine is responsible for so much that is awful in mainstream culture (celebrities! plastic surgery! excess!) that…

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Space makes things that are spinning act completely crazy

Being in zero gravity has to be a never ending amount of fun. Everything that you boringly do in your normal life, all the things you don’t bother to look twice at—they all become instantly more interesting because you have no idea what’s going to happen. Just check this spinning T-handle in zero gravity, it…

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The process of making shoes from rope is pretty complicated

The sole of an espadrille—a really basic form of shoe—is made from rope. Specifically, jute rope. It’s a rather impressive (though also totally quaint) process as the rope needs to be braided together with different twines and then hand molded and pressed into the shape of a foot. Here’s how they do it. SPLOID is…

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Science and Post-It notes power this Rube Goldberg machine

3M used 25,000 post its, 75 rolls of that blue painter tape, and a whole bunch of other stuff to make this wildly complicated Rube Goldberg machine that’s actually really fun to watch. Unlike other Rube Goldberg machines, it’s not totally obvious how it’ll progress from one level to the next, like a slow burn…

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Seeing a ladybug take flight in slow motion is actually quite surprising

This is just so cool. I love how the dotted red shells split and then the wings slowly swing out and then begin to flap and the ladybug takes flight like some sophisticated alien space ship that’s ready to swarm together. It’s also really cool to see this angle of a ladybug taking flight because…

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This video of the coast makes the edge of the world look even more beautiful

There is peace when your feet sink into the sand and your ears hear the waves and your nose smells the salt. It’s a beautiful feeling, standing on a beach and looking out into the ocean and imagining the edge of the world. But it might be even more beautiful to see the water creeping…

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Making a homemade carbon fiber hydrofoil and kiteboard is really impressive

I know next to nothing about kiteboarding and have a negative amount of knowledge when it comes to making your own carbon fiber hydrofoil and board but after watching Mat put together his gear, I felt like I’ve learned everything. There is so much cutting and sanding and drilling and layering the carbon fiber and…

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These super fun illusions really messes with your perspective

You really can’t trust your eyeballs. Watch as freerunners Jason Paul and Pasha Petkuns use illusions and perfect camera angles to screw with our perspectives as they slide down bananas, live in an upside down world, become giants and tiny humans, and do a lot more mind trippy stuff. It’s really fun. SPLOID is delicious…

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Mad Max: Fury Road perfectly recreated with go karts is so much bad ass fun

Knowing the humble production roots of the original Mad Max, I could totally imagine this version of Mad Max: Fury Road with just go karts being made. The car chase and the action effects in the go kart version are not as blockbuster big as the one that hit the theaters and made our eyeballs…

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All the people that Batman has killed in movies

All the US Navy combat jets in history

Hydrophobic sand turns to goo in water and magically turns back to sand when dry

A bomb of matchstick heads exploding in slow motion is like fire rain

Submit your short film to the Sploid Short Film Festival 2015

Seeing a cello get carved from wood and made by hand is so soothing

Watch the ocean’s five islands of garbage form over the last 35 years

Incredible overhead view of an oil tanker perfectly docking at a narrow port

Hilarious video shows all the weird and random weapons used in movies

Map shows the gender breakdown of Ashley Madison users across the world

Watch a guy jump nearly 200 feet off a cliff and plunge straight into the water

Trippy hyperlapse of Los Angeles captures its unique beauty

Space makes things that are spinning act completely crazy

The process of making shoes from rope is pretty complicated

Science and Post-It notes power this Rube Goldberg machine

Seeing a ladybug take flight in slow motion is actually quite surprising

This video of the coast makes the edge of the world look even more beautiful

Making a homemade carbon fiber hydrofoil and kiteboard is really impressive

These super fun illusions really messes with your perspective

Mad Max: Fury Road perfectly recreated with go karts is so much bad ass fun

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