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Magic bookcase makes itself in neat stop-motion video

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I daydream that I have the power to move stuff or make wonderful things with my mind alone—because I can’t be bothered to move from my sofa, really. Superlazyass-Man. That would be my superhero name. Or Mary Poppins. And my superpower will look just like this video. SPLOID…

You Can Now Get 1TB of Dropbox Pro Storage For Just $10 a Month

Dropbox Pro users just got way more storage for the same price. The file-sharing service now gives you 1TB of storage for $10 a month instead of 100GB. This isn’t a casual price cut; that’s a 90 percent price reduction per gigabyte. Dropbox likely did it to stay competitive with Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive,…

This May Be The Most Ludicrous Star Wars Action Figure Ever

At first glance, this appears to be the classic Boba Fett figure from Kenner. That’s because your first glance will not inform you that this ridiculous thing is life-size, and now you can own one as well. Yes, Gentle Giant is releasing a six-foot-tall version of the original Boba Fett action figure, from 1980 which…

Massive Buckyball cube video is so satisfying it gives me goosebumps

The deadly magnetic metal spheres known as Buckyballs may be officially banned, but they keep living in the homes and offices of rebels who keep making cool stuff with them. Like this massive cube assembled with 10,000 magnetic spheres—without a doubt the most satisfying video so far this month. SPLOID is a new blog about…

Which DC Comics Characters Are Hinted at In the New Flash Poster?

A new Gotham location is spotted on the Batman v. Superman set. A producer speculates on how old Harvey Dent would be on Gotham. Check out an Interstellar trailer. More about American Horror Story: Freak Show. Plus, what’s the relationship between Marvel’s Netflix series and the movies? Spoilers now! Top image: The Flash Batman v.…

10 Incredibly Dangerous Banned Toys

They say that it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. Technically, the same applies to skull fractures, poisoning, and third-degree burns. Throughout history, toy makers have designed some truly brutal products (lawn darts, anyone?). But with modern-day lawsuits, you’d think we would’ve curbed that problem. Yet, in their fervor to create the…

Amazing photo of the Milky Way over Yellowstone’s alien hot springs

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day has an amazing picture by Dave Lane today, a 16-photo panorama of the Milky Way arching over Silex Spring, Yellowstone National Park. The amazing pool colors—caused by bacteria thriving in the magma-heated waters—make this look like a picture from an alien world. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Ikea Is Betting Big on These Six Small Tech Companies

Ikea is one of the largest corporations in the world, and even the smallest change in its supply chain could have a gigantic impact on its business. After all, this is a company that uses 1 percent of the world’s wood supply. In fact, Ikea operates a whole venture fund devoted to emerging tech, from…

Time Warner Cable’s Internet Has Broken Nationwide

If you’re a Time Warner Cable customer who’s been lacking internet overnight: don’t worry, you’re not alone. Apparently during “routine network maintenance” there was an issue with the company’s Internet backbone, which took down access nationwide. It explains: “At 430am ET this morning during our routine network maintenance, an issue with our Internet backbone created…

These Sun-Tracking Devices Pipe Real Sunlight Into Shadowy Buildings

It’s a necessary evil of designing in cities: Only the tallest or most perfectly situated buildings get much sunlight. A company called Sun Central thinks it has a solution—in the form of an autonomous sun-tracking mechanism that sucks up sunlight and pipes it into dark buildings. Today in Berlin, the California- and British Columbia-based startup…

New brain-twisting mathematical GIFs so pretty I want to lick them

Colossal got its eye on the newest hypnotizing mathematical GIFs by Dave Whyte. Here are my favorites. Pop an Ambien and zoom in. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Ghostbusters honest trailer shows how ridiculously awesome this movie is

Ghostbusters is celebrating its 30 anniversary, so the guys at Screen Junkies have decided to dissect it in a new hilarious honest trailer that brought me back many happy childhood memories. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

A New Kind of Chip Could Make Wearables Last Way Longer on a Charge

Smartwatches, Google Glass, even humble fitness trackers: all great, apart from the fact that the batteries last for what seems like minutes. But now, a new kind of low-power processor could change that. Developed by a startup company Ineda Systems, the new chip is actually intended to work alongside another, more powerful processor—and that’s the…

The Latest Version Of Chrome Finally Fixes How Fonts Look on Windows

Judge me all you want, but when I used Windows, my browser of choice was Internet Explorer. You know why? Because text in Internet Explorer looked bloody beautiful. Unlike, you know, Chrome, where text was a blurry mess. Seriously, it was painful. Until today. Chrome’s latest update, version 37, finally adds support for DirectWrite on…

Microsoft: Your Surface Is Not Overheating. But We’ll Fix It Anyway

Microsoft says that your overheating Surface Pro 3 is actually not overheating at all, never mind that thermometer icon on the boot screen. For the last few weeks, Surface Pro 3 owners have taken to complaining on Microsoft’s support website about the device becoming too hot to handle even during light tasks. They’ve even put…

Drink Any Beer Like It’s ​Octoberfest With This Stein-Style Can Holder

Octoberfest is just round the corner and now you have the perfect way to practice. Made from plastic resin designed to look like traditional pewter, the Das Can-in-Stein lets you drink any can like it’s a stein. Initially a Think Geek April Fool’s product, the amazing/silly idea is now a reality. It holds any 12…

The Next Da Vinci Code Movie Is On Its Way

The next Da Vinci Code sequel will start filming in April, 2015, Deadline reports. We have Tom Hanks returning to star as Robert Langdon and Ron Howard back to direct. Weirdly, the studio’s decided to skip one of Dan Brown’s novels and adapt Inferno instead of The Lost Symbol. Is this a Freemason conspiracy?! (Spoiler…

Twitch, the video game streaming service that Amazon recently bought, is allegedly being attacked by Lizard Squad, the same group that claimed responsibility for bringing down Sony’s PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s XBOX Live, Riot Games’ League of Legends and Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net over the last few days. Lizard Squad also claims to be affiliated with Middle…

Social Media Users Unlikely to Disagree With Consensus, Online and Off

In the utopian vision of the internet, social media provides a platform where we can share opinions, debate and argue; a space for free discussion and constructive discourse. Turns out, the opposite is true. A new report from Pew Research aimed to investigate whether our digital realm alleviates the social phenomenon that is the “spiral…

This Is the World’s First 8 TB Hard Drive

Bigger is better. Seagate just shipped the world’s first 8 TB hard drives to “select customers”, a new milestone for fitting gobs of data on a single 3.5-inch platter. It’s meant for enterprise customers — you know, corporate data centers and such — to create denser storage arrays for cloud content and backups, which is…