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Mattress Sensor Only Silences Your Alarm Clock When You Get Out of Bed

How many times do you need to snooze your alarm clock before you actually climb out of bed in the morning? Enough to be late for work every day, right? So while there are lots of crazy alarm clock designs out there that make it harder to snooze, the Chipper—which uses a sensor strip to…

Build a Bulletproof Fortress For Figures With Tiny Cement Cinder Blocks

When your action figures are at war, the last thing they need is a fortress made from stacked wooden building blocks that even a crawling infant could destroy. So the next time you’re drawing up plans for a new action figure HQ, why not consider building it using these tiny 1/12-scale cinder blocks that are…

Apple Watch Meta Review: Not Perfect, But Full of Potential

The Apple Watch won’t be on your wrist until this Friday at the earliest, but the first reviews of Apple’s new wrist computer are just coming in. The verdict? It’s not a perfect product. It has some first generation flaws, and other quirks. There’s a bit of a learning curve. And you probably shouldn’t buy…

Forget Where Tyrion Is? Get Caught Up On Game of Thrones In Two Minutes

Having trouble remembering where all your favorite (surviving) Starks and least favorite (surviving) Lannisters ended up last season on Game of Thrones? We’ve got you covered with our exclusive video, revealing where each main character is, where they’re going and most importantly, what they’re doing. Man, I know Bran might end up being the most…

The LG G4 Is Coming, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Bezos’ rockets are ready for space, Skype Translator get a more talented tongue, and Google wants to help find your next handyman. This is all the news and rumors you might’ve missed on BitStream. Samsung and HTC have already revealed what they think “flagship smartphone” means for 2015, and now LG will try its hand…

The weirdest (and coolest) ceremonial first pitch I’ve ever seen 

When Genki Sudo and his dance crew World Order were invited to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a Japanese baseball game in Japan the crowd expected to see one of his famous robotic choreographies, and he didn’t disappoint them—well, maybe the actual throw could have been much better. Check it out: SPLOID is delicious…

LA’s Street Lights Can Now Be Wirelessly Controlled

Los Angeles recently converted 140,000 of its street lights to energy-efficient LEDs—the largest such upgrade in the world. Now a new partnership with lighting giant Philips will allow the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting to wirelessly manage all those street lamps, similar to the way its Hue systemallows you to control the mood lighting in…

Canon Just Reinvented the Camcorder With the 4K Shooting XC10

The camcorder business has seen better years, but Canon is trying something new with its bizarre-looking XC10, a 4K video shooter meant for the discerning video makers who want something small and powerful, that in no way resembles the dad-cams of yore. Typically, if you want to shoot high quality, cinematic video, you’d have to…

An Extraordinary Photo Of A Bobcat Fishing For Sharks

Earlier this week, a Florida resident was taking a stroll along Vero Beach in Florida’s Sebastian Inlet State Park when he saw a bobcat staring at a shark that was feeding on smaller fish. But suddenly, the hunter became the hunted. As reported by ABC’s Florida affiliate Local 10, the photograph was captured by John…

Two Fake-Outs That Totally Tricked Us In Last Night’s Agents of SHIELD

Last night’s Agents of SHIELD was mostly about getting the pieces in place for the final episodes of the season — but “Afterlife” did contain a couple of clever misdirects, that totally pulled the rug out from under us. Spoilers ahead… The main part of last night’s “Afterlife” was about the Real SHIELD hunting down…

Isaac Newton’s Rainbow Gaze, As Imagined By Mana Morimoto

Fiber artist Mana Morimoto adds colorful embroidery to a diverse range of media, including sculptures and concert tickets. This augmented etching of Isaac Newton (hit the jump for the full image) is one of our favorites. See more of Morimoto’s work on Tumblr and Cargo Collective, or purchase prints on Society 6. H/t Colossal Contact…

This beautiful song was made using the shape of the mountains as notes

These guys took a bunch of images from different peaks of Los Andes—the longest continental mountain range in the world located in the western coast of South America—drew a staff over them, and marked the peaks as notes. An orchestra played this random composition and the result is surprisingly beautiful. The project is called The…

A Slice-Of-Life Webcomic Set In A Town Cursed With Mediocrity

Middleville, the setting for Megan Rose Gedris’ webcomic Meaty Yogurt, is an ordinary town, except for one thing: it’s under a curse. Anyone who is born there is destined to die there, after a life of long mediocrity. At least that’s what Jackie Monroe thinks, but she’s determined to beat the curse and do something…

No, Fish Won’t Swim Up Your Hoohah If You Pee In the Amazon River

The candiru became the most famous catfish in the world in 1997, when an icthyologist read a medical report about a man who had to have this toothpick-shaped fish removed from his urethra. The truth of the claim has always been in dispute, but people have feared peeing in the Amazon river ever since. They…

Which Unanswered Historical Question Do You Most Want An Answer To?

For everything we know about our history, there are still plenty of gaps in our knowledge. So which ones would you most like to be filled in? Tell us in the comments about a historical mystery — whether you want to know more about what happened to a person or a group, or learn more…

New Liquid Metal Inkjet Printing Can Produce Flexible Circuitry

Creating truly flexible electronics requires applying super-thin layers of conducting materials to already bendable materials—but doing so accurately is difficult. Now, a new form of inkjet printing can allow scientists to deposit thin layers of liquid metal into neat, stretchable circuits. The researchers, from Purdue University, had the bright idea that liquid metal could be…

An Apple A Day Keeps The Prescription Meds Away

A new study suggests that people should regularly eat apples not necessarily to keep the doctor away, but as a means to reduce national health care spending. Last week, a research article titled “Association between apple consumption and physician visits: appealing the conventional wisdom than an apple a day keeps the doctor away” was published…

How and did we start using “no” to mean “yes” — as “No, totally” or “No, exactly”? Kathryn Schultz at The New Yorker takes a deep dive into the linguistics of “Yes” and “No” and how English kept them and ditched their more precise brethren. [The New Yorker]

Hilarious honest trailer explains why Daredevil sucks so badly

Two days before Marvel’s Daredevil debut on Netflix the guys at Screen Junkiesuploaded another hilarious honest trailer dissecting—or rather ripping apart—Daredevil, the movie. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

How to Identify Your Location Based on Movie Backgrounds

For aliens crash-landing on Earth, people who never leave home, and those addicted toGeoguesser, this maps shows which films will help your roughly identify your position in the U.S.. Roughly. [XKCD]