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Turn your text messages into video using words taken from famous movies

This is really fun: A web service that will turn your text messages into video messages using words taken from famous movies and TV series. It’s name is Crumble. Give it a try here. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

The World’s Greatest Christmas Card Has an Amazing Animated Finale

Sometimes a simple card with a heartfelt message can have more impact than an expensive gift. But London’s Birdbox Studio’s holiday card isn’t simple. It’s actually one of the most impressive and complex pop-up cards you’ve ever seen. It doesn’t just pop-up, though. This card plays music, it’s got a full-on animated flipbook cartoon running…

Terrifying documentary on the fire bombs roaming America’s railroads

Boom is a terrifying documentary on a problem that you may not be aware of: America has been invaded by hundred of thousands of moving fire bombs—freight trains with old, cheap tanker cars designed to transport corn oil filled with dangerous flammable oil. Logically, accidents are happening, people are dying, and oil is spilling. As…

Welcome to the Era of Virtual Reality Workout Programs

What’s better than doing your workout routine in your crappy, dank apartment? Oh, I dunno, how about doing your workout routine in a villa on the beach? Or on top of a beautiful hillside? Or what the hell why not, in the middle of a black hole? Well, that day is coming, and Runastic of…

This Is the Future of Autonomous Shipping According to Rolls-Royce

Welcome to the oX Bridge. This is what Rolls-Royce believes the future of shipping will look like, with autonomous ocean-going vessels becoming a reality by 2025. Developed in conjunction with the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Aalto University, the video explores a world of shipping that’s far more complex than what we’re used…

A color image of Comet 67P has finally been released, revealing that it is… grey. The picture is composed of three images taken by Rosetta’s scientific imaging system OSIRIS in red, green and blue filters. In reality, it’s even darker, but the image has been brightened enough for us to see the comet’s features.

This Is What Astronauts Actually See on Reentry

Ever wondered what astronauts see when they return from the International Space Station at the end of their mission, tucked tightly into a Soyuz space capsule? Well, it’s this. In this video, astronaut Mike Hopkins (Expedition 37/38 )—who returned to Earth back in March—shows you. The real fireworks start at 12:40. Oh and just as…

Computers Think These Are Real Animals and Objects

Even computers can be fooled by optical illusions. While computer vision is rapidly advancing, this set of bizzare images can fool even the best algorithms into thinking that they’re real objects. The images were generated by Jeff Clune fromthe University of Wyoming in Laramie when he applied an image-recognition algorithm called a deep neural network…

Holy crap, the new Mad Max trailer is amazing

The first trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road was pretty damn good, but this one has taken everything up to 11. The stunts are truly incredible, the tone feels perfect, and the marriage of retina-bursting imagery and soundtrack makes it all feel like an explosive version of A Clockwork Orange. I’m really looking forward to…

The Librarians Shoot a Minotaur in the Balls

Look, if you can find another explanation for the what happens when Rebecca Romijn’s character slides through the legs of a minotaur on her back while shooting up, I welcome it. Otherwise, she totally shot him in the balls. I’m still enjoying the hell out of The Librarians, which is cheesy and ridiculous but in…

Short film: The heart-melting journey of a house seeking freedom

A reader sent us this amazing animated short film he did. It tells the story of a suburban house put up for sale that one day decides to leave everything behind and hit the road to see the world. A quirky story with a heart-melting ending. The film was made by Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz,…

According Danny John-Jules, planning for another season of Red Dwarf continues apace. “All I can say is that Doug Naylor is slaving away writing scripts and we’ve got lunch next week. That’s as far as I can tell you!” [Digital Spy]

The Different Types of Snowflake, Visualized

Snowflakes are endlessly fascinating and incredibly beautiful. But while they’re all (sort of) unique, they can be neatly divided into well-defined types of flake. This chart shows them all. https://gizmodo.com/these-macro-pictures-of-snowflakes-are-stunningly-beaut-5967349 Column crystals, plane crystals, irregularities, aggregates, germs… you probably never knew that snow flakes could take so many forms. Based on a research paper by…

This Is Where NASA’s Super Guppy Gets Some Rest

NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft—the airplane that carries the space agency’s biggest loads—sits overnight at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia for a well-deserved break. In fact, it had carried the fuselage of… another aircraft, due to be tested at the center. The Guppy had shipped a “representative test article of a futuristic hybrid wing…

Hackers: Sony Employees Can Ask Us Not to Publish Their Emails

A group of hackers claiming to be responsible for the Sony hacks has offered Sony employees a small lifeline. If the company’s staff write to them, it claims, they won’t publish their emails online. The offer has been made by Guardians of Peace in slightly broken English on Pastebin and Friendpaste. It explains: “Message to…

Hey, Weirdos! Is A Reboot Of The Craft In the Works?

Today’s unconfirmed/tantalizing/”but whyyy?” Hollywood rumor for all the once and future teen witches out there: There may be a reboot of 1996’s The Craft in the works. Dread Central is cautiously sharing the news from a tipster who “takes surveys about various topics, the most recent of which was films that are currently in theaters.”…

A Necronomicon for the “Ugh, Whatever” Kind of Days

Unfortunately, this plush “Blech-cronomicon” is already sold out at Gallery 1988, where it’s part of the “Crazy 4 Cult 8” show. But rest assured that you can see more of Steff Bomb’s work here. Or like whatever. Here’s the cover: [via xombieDIRGE]

Russia Drops A New Communications Satellite Into Orbit

The same weekend America is launching a secretive spy satellite with mid-launch media blackouts, Russia launched a new private communications rig on a constant live stream. The new satellite will provide communications and tv signals for Russia and surrounding countries. https://gizmodo.com/a-successful-clandestine-launch-was-widely-seen-in-cal-1670962185 Top image: Spacecraft on pad 24 of site 81 at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos…

An Acorn Finds a Home Far From the Rest of His Family in This Short

This cute animated short from Madeline Sharafian follows an acorn’s trip to find a place to put down roots after he decides not to follow the everyone else’s “close to the tree” approach. You go, brave little acorn. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]

Toho Is Returning to Godzilla, So I Am Too

There is a special place reserved in my heart for kaiju. A love that I’ve cultivated through meticulous fandom and my brief four-month stay in kaiju’s ancestral home of Japan. That’s why when Toho, the Japanese production company responsible for the King of Monsters himself, announced that they were getting back into the monster movie…