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Big Hero 6 Sizzle Reel Shows Off Its Underground Robot Fighting League

Baymax is clearly the star of Disney’s upcoming superhero movie Big Hero 6, but the sizzle reel that just showed at New York Comic-Con shows off far more than a boy and his robot, including an illicit robot fighting league and the rest of our superhero team in action. Those microbots look like great fun,…

Inside the Workshop of a Master Neon Signmaker

Neon is an essentially modern phenomenon—it was discovered in 1898, at the cusp of the modern age. But paradoxically, working with neon still requires an extraordinary handicraft. A new video shows us the process of blowing and molding a (badass) neon sign courtesy of Mike Heist, a Neon artist based in Portland. This little mini-doc…

At Last! Here’s The Very First Trailer For Tomorrowland!

The very first teaser footage from Disney’s super-secret new project Tomorrowland has hit, and we’re even more confused than we were before we saw anything. So there’s a pin that transports people to the mysterious Tomorrowland and George Clooney is in-the-know or something? Color us intrigued.

Example #5,259 of astronauts having way too much fun in space

Our Captain America in space, el comanderino Reid Wiseman, keeps making great little Vines. Here’s him demonstrating the refraction properties of a sphere of water in zero gravity: Instant fisheye lens. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

New 2015 Lego Architecture sets: Lincoln Memorial and Flatiron building

There are two new sets joining the Architecture line for 2015: A cute reproduction of the massive Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and the famous Flatiron building in New York. We got photos of both. Lincoln Memorial (21022) This set is just wonderful. Whenever the element that I know is a space antenna or laser gun…

Smartphones Turn These Masks Into Incredible Animated Halloween Costumes

Proving that sometimes all it takes is a popular YouTube video to kickstart a successful business, Mark Rober, the guy who made the gaping hole in your gut costume using two iPads a few years ago, is back with even more easy but impressive costume ideas. And that includes a line of Halloween masks that…

Holy crap, this beautiful Dragon is made out of Paper

Cindy Williams may have put a crazy amount of hours into crafting this Dragon out of Paper Mache, but man, looking at that thing? Totally worth it. Cindy took over 400 hours to craft the Dragon over the course of 8 months as a way to ease herself back into making Paper Mache creations after…

How To Record Your Screen on an Android Phone or Tablet

In amongst the new features ushered in with Android KitKat was a screencasting capability—a native tool for capturing on-screen activity in a video file. Whether you want to show off your app, share your Angry Birds prowess or start a series of Android troubleshooting videos, it’s not difficult to get the functionality up and running,…

My God, Archie Meets Predator Is Actually A Thing That Is Happening

He’s met the Punisher and KISS, but Archie Andrews has never met anyone quite like this. The alien hunter known as the Predator will come to Riverdale in a miniseries collaboration between Archie Comics and Dark Horse next spring. The mind boggles. The actual plot sounds completely ridiculous, as writer Alex de Campi told USA…

The Designs Norway Rejected For Its New Banknotes Are Amazing

Yesterday we learned that Norway had chosen a new design for its banknotes—a pixelated little number by the architects at Snøhetta. While their design is tasteful and restrained, it can’t possibly live up to the charm of sea life drawn by kids. Which was exactly what one designer proposed. The competition held by the Norse…

Beautiful view of the lunar eclipse over the Pacific coast

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is this view of the October 8 lunar eclipse taken by Yuri Beletsky at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The shadow of the Earth cutting through, the glow, the misty sea that fades into the sky itself—so otherworldly and ethereal. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

Video: Inside the cockpit of DARPA’s awesome missile-dodging buggy

Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’sGXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants the cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality. It’s really impressive. A closed cockpit that would use visualization technologies to provide high-definition,…

Discounted Retro Board Games and Toys, Smallville, and More Deals

Today’s Amazon Gold Box features big savings on a variety of nostalgia-inducing toys and games. A lot of them are still around today, but these come in old-style packaging, which is awesome. [ Up to 45% Off Retro Toys and Games] Well here’s something a little different. This vertical mouse places its buttons on the…

Lego ends Shell partnership after Greenpeace campaign

The Guardian is reporting that Lego will not renew the US$100m marketing contract with Shell, which has existed since 1966, after sustained pressure from Greenpeace. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the Cheif Executive of Lego commented: We continuously consider many different ways of how to deliver on our promise of bringing creative play to more children. We…

Transparent, the first truly good Amazon original series, just got renewed for a second season. The series chronicles Jeffrey Tambor’s late-in-life gender transition, and it is excellent. [h/t @KateAurthur]

Watch a Japanese Pop Star Hologram Performance on Letterman

Last night, David Letterman’s musical guest was an enormously popular Japanese pop star who has opened for Lady Gaga and racked up an estimated 88 million views on YouTube. She performed her song “Sharing the World.” She is also not human. She’s also a vocal synthesizer software with no corporeal form, the VR personification of…

iRobot Now Has One App to Control All Its Badass Bots

Shoot, it used to be you’d have a whole team of iRobot robots, to man your factory or diffuse your explosives, but each one required its own joystick controller. That’s a lot to carry for a robot operator. But not anymore! Now iRobot has one Android app to man all its defense and security bots.…

An Utterly Bonkers Short Pulp Film About A Boxer Brief-Wearing Renegade

Who runs around in boxer briefs fighting the evil schemes of Dr. Monocle? He’s Renegade, and you can watch his utterly ludicrous, 1940s pulp-inspired adventures in less time than it takes to escape a trio of flesh-eating sirens. Kevin Van Witt directed Renegade, and it’s a great, goofy send-up of those henchmen-punching action heroes, one…

First Look At The TV Version Of The Flash’s Archnemesis

Call him the Reverse-Flash or call him Professor Zoom, but either way the Flash’s most dangerous supervillain has been spotted on the set of the new (and pretty damned good) TV show. Get the first look at his outfit here, and see him kicking Barry’s ass, too! The yellow top and black pants combination is…

The Dragonball Z: Battle Of Gods Movie Needs A Divine Intervention

The first new Dragonball Z animation in 17 years, the Battle of Gods movie seems to have so much going for it: it’s the first in-canon DBZ movie, creator Akira Toriyama worked deeply on it for the first time, and the nostalgia factor. But fans looking for the classic DBZ experience in BoG will likely…