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A Smaller Ceiling Light-Fan Combo Can Squeeze Into the Tiniest of Rooms

Because you don’t necessarily want to put up with the droning sound of your air conditioner all summer long, a ceiling fan can be almost as effective at cooling your home by keeping air circulating. But for those rooms where the blades of a ceiling fan just won’t fit, or where you think they just…

Ad: Ron Jeremy wants to be a serious filmmaker

This commercial for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival shows legendary porn star Ron Jeremy trying to understand why his movies have never been accepted to the festival. I feel the same way as you, Ron, Woodfellas and The Rod Father are brilliant. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

IBM’s Hulking New Mainframe Will Help You… Shop?

IBM’s new Z13 mainframe is a hulking silicon beast. It packs the “world’s fastest microprocessor,” is twice as fast as most commercial servers, packs 300 percent more memory, and will be used for… shopping. That’s perhaps not too surprising given the size of the online shopping market. But this thing can sure handle the biggest…

Mystical Phenomena Haunt Two Women in the Trailer for H. 

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia’s H. will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Sunday, January 25th. They’ve already won a Film Independent Spirit Awards’ “Someone To Watch Award” based on the strenght of H. And it is a doozy of a tale, following two women named Helen and the eerie events that follow them wherever…

There’s a Potential Ammonia Leak Aboard the ISS (Update: Probably Not)

Commander Chris Hadfield has taken to Twitter to explains that there’s an emergency aboard the International Space Station. Apparently high-pressure ammonia may be leaking inside the station. The crew has currently sought refuge in theRussian segment, having closed the hatches behind them. Hadfield says they are “safe for now,” but the situation is being analyzed.…

Hyper-realistic paintings look like huge double-exposure photos

Armenian artist Tigran Tsitoghdzyan made these gigantic hyper-realistic paintings of women faces appearing magically through their hands. They emulate a photographic technique called double exposure, which combines two exposures of different things over the same film to make a single image. Here some more of his work: Tigran Tsitoghdzyan is an Armenian-born painter based currently…

It’s hard to believe this horror short was not filmed with real cameras

I was zombied-out after Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead, the seminal horror movies by filmmaker George A. Romero, but apparently you kids keep loving those dumb walking corpses. You will like this fantastically crafted 3D animation short, which feels like the beginning of a full feature. Some of the sequences…

This is What Orion Looks Like Naked

It’s amazing how effective the thermal shield of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is. With all of the back shell panels removed for a viewing by Kennedy Space Center workers, you can hardly see any heat-related damage under the skin of the spacecraft. It’s also worth noticing how intact the U.S. flag painted on the panel on…

Lumia 435: The Cheapest Lumia Yet Only Costs $80

Since Microsoft took control of Nokia’s Lumia line, it’s been pushing to make the phone range more affordable. Now, it’s released the cheapest Lumia yet. Say hello to the 435, which costs just $80. The phone features a 4-inch WVGA display, a 1.2GHz Snapdragon chip, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. In a…

George Lucas Once Planned to Release Star Wars Episode VII This May

In a recent interview, George Lucas revealed that, up until he sold the whole kit and caboodle to Disney, he was planning to release Episode VII himself. Oh, what could have been. Speaking to USA Today in advance of Strange Magic, Lucas says that he had started to develop a third trilogy. Which is pretty…

There’s a Security Bug on 60% of Android Phones—And Google Won’t Fix It

A security researcher has discovered a serious bug in the WebView component of Android 4.3 and below that could open up phones to malicious hackers. But Google is doing nothing about it. The bug, discovered by Tod Beardsley from Rapid, is found in an older piece of Android software that allows apps to view web…

Google Translate Now Rewrites Foreign Signs Before Your Eyes

Google’s Translate app is already pretty neat, allowing your to snap photographs and have them converted into one of 36 languages. Now, though, you can point your camera at a sign or menu and see the translation in real time. The update allows you to point your phone’s camera at any foreign text and see…

Animator turns Nintendo Power Glove into cool stop-motion film tool

Animator Dillon Markey—who works for Robot Chicken and famous animation studio PESfilm—took an old Nintendo Power Glove, replaced the circuit board, added bluetooth connectivity, and transformed it into a cool animation tool. This short documentary explains how he did it: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

This Is Samsung’s First Tizen Phone

After many promises and false starts, Samsung has finally created its first Tizen smartphone. Say hello to the Z1, which goes on sale today (in, err, India). So, what does it promise? Well, it’s actually a much lower spec device than you may be hoping for. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor,…

How Do You Tell Someone That They’re Dying?

How do you tell someone that they’re seriously ill, or even dying? Chrissie Giles explores how doctors learn and how they deal with the stress and trauma, for both their patients and themselves. I was 14 when I was told that Dad was dying. I was sitting on the floor of our lounge. Mum said…

The New Illustrated Harry Potter Books Have Glorious Character Portraits

The first fully-illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will hit the shelves on October 6th, and now we’re getting a glimpse at how some of our favorite characters will look when that day comes. A few of the images done by artist Jim Kay have been released by Bloomsbury UK and Scholastic…

Watch this time lapse of a ground up construction of Lego modulars

Alex Phillips has shared a super interesting time lapse video of him constructing (or reconstructing) his entire collection of Lego modular buildings in a most interesting fashion. Normally, people build these things one at a time, level by level, but he chose to video the ground up construction of all of the buildings at the…

Get Ready: Escape From New York Is Going to Be Remade by Fox

After a reportedly very long and competitive bidding process, Fox has emerged the victor and has secured the rights to remake Escape From New York. Deadline reports that any rumors you may have heard about the project aren’t true, since the deal has them starting from scratch. So the rumors about Snake Plissken being played…

How Lego dwarves churn out weapons

Henry F (Dubbadgrim) has shared a funny build showing how the master dwarf smiths actually create their weapons. Like any assembly line should be, they sit around and drink ale and let the machines do all the work. The Quik-Smith™ is a great little scene with a conveyor belt for the ingots of metal being…

According to a leaked Gamespot posterobtained byArs Technica, the New Nintendo 3DS — you know, the one that will finally turn Nintendo’s fortunes around — will go on sale February 13th in the US, with pre-orders starting tomorrow. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not? Read Kotaku’s impressions first. [Ars Technica]