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Diary From a Lifetime of Tech Failure

On my 32nd birthday, my 22-year-old sister mailed me a first-generation Tamagotchi. Too young to have suffered the Tamagotchi herself, she may have sweetly assumed that I was once the kind of focused, enraptured child from the throwback commercial—one with an innate or even competent grasp of faddish handheld electronics. She would be wrong. The…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Oct 30

What Today’s Kangaroo Fighters Can Learn From the Great Emu War of 1932

In recent years, Australia has been embroiled in an effort to cull kangaroos—this year alone, it’s expected to kill over a million of them in an effort to protect endangered species in its grasslands. While the mass culling has sparked outrage among animals rights activists, waging war on its fauna is nothing new for Australia.…

Tech News Rae Paoletta May 31

Someone Is Trying to Scrub Trump’s Name From the Wikipedia Page of Lieberman’s Law Firm

There’s a Wikipedia edit war going on right now on the page of the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. That wouldn’t be notable except for the fact that someone is trying to scrub Donald Trump’s name from the page and Joe Lieberman is a special counsel at the firm. Lieberman is a…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 20

North Korea Shows It’s Not Ready for Primetime

On Saturday morning, the front pages of American news outlets were plastered with photos of North Korean “Frankenmissiles” being paraded through the streets of Pyongyang. Less than 24 hours later, the tin-pot dictatorship tested a ballistic missile that reportedly fizzled in a matter of seconds. Now, U.S. authorities are showing signs that a conflict can…

Tech News Rhett Jones Apr 16

The Secret iPhone 7 Weaknesses Apple Doesn’t Want You to Know

While consumers can learn a lot about a product by reviewing specs and features, it takes hands-on experience to know how something like the iPhone 7 holds up in the real world. We’ve previously covered how Apple’s new smartphone withstands some of the most common stress scenarios, but Gizmodo recently found that the device has…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Sep 18

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

Ugh! Me so stupid! All I had to do was come up with some good ideas for Gizmodo’s Senior Week, and I went and fucked the whole thing up. The task was pretty simple: We were supposed to pitch the stories “we’ve always wanted to write” and spend the whole week “doing whatever the hell…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 9

Why My New Year’s Yorkshire Pudding Fell Flat

For most British folks, it’s just not the holiday season without a classic Yorkshire pudding: an eggy, puffed-up-pancake dish, traditionally served before the main course with gravy and meat drippings. Think of it as a sort of meat donut. There are a lot of helpful guides out there to making the perfect Yorkshire pudding. J.…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette Jan 1

8 crazy vehicles that no longer exist because they were too crazy

Cars, motorcycles, trucks, airplanes, mopeds, tanks, fighter jets, ships, trains, big rigs and so on. We’ve figured out that those are the vehicles that work out best for our purposes and our world and our needs. But we had a lot of missteps and weird ass experimental vehicles along the way. Here are 8 crazy…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 9

How far are we from Terminator’s killing robots? DARPA has the answer

Movies like the Terminator series have convinced us that robots are eventually going to kill us all. That’s still eventually going to happen but we’ve got a long way to go before we build a T-1000 or even an Arnold version, because as DARPA’s 2015 Robotics Challenge shows, even the best and smartest robots right…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 8

Video: Super Mario Bros. edited into real life to ruin people’s lives

I’m a horrible person who always laughs when people fail in YouTube videos. This collection of fails made me laugh even harder because it’s been perfectly edited to splice in Mario and Luigi from Nintendo as the evil invisible force who cause all these screw ups in real life. The sound effects are just perfect.…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 13

Skydivers fail to open parachute on time and almost crash on the ground

These two guys were enjoying their skydiving so much that they lost track on their altitude meters failing to open the parachute on time for a safe landing. Luckily they fell on what it seems to be a corn field and that softened the landing. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Nov 7

Catching lobsters with your bare hands looks hilariously impossible

Because my only experiences with live lobsters are when they’re on display in tanks at restaurants or used for poses in photographs, I never knew how insanely quick they can be. And because I didn’t know they had cat-like reflexes, I never knew how hilarious it is to watch people fail at catching them. Now…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 4

Motorcyclist misses his superman seat grab trick and flies into the air

Whoa. This is crazy. A motorcyclist jumped off a ramp and missed his grab of the motorcycle seat for the superman seat grab trick and ended up spinning out of control in the air. I can’t imagine the sinking feeling of grabbing nothing, though I guess in this case, it’d be more of a flying…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 2

Haha, watch Portugal launch a drone and immediately fail by crashing it

Well, hmph. That’s not how drones work guys. Supposedly, this video shows Portugal attempting to launch a naval drone by giving it a running start. As the drone is thrown in the air to fly, it immediately nosedives and crashes into the ocean. What a wonderful failure. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 18

This video compilation of hilarious military fails is comedic gold

I’m sorry. People who serve in the army make incredible sacrifices for their countries and I am incredibly thankful for them. They do amazing things. They make our lives a lot better. But I can’t help but laugh at this wonderful compilation of fails in the military. They look like failed skits on sketch comedy…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 7

The Chinese government is really really bad at Photoshop

What was supposed to be a nice, heartwarming picture of four Chinese government officials visiting an elderly woman in a sign of respect and caring for the people and giving back and all that ended up being another Photoshop nightmare for China where three giant men plus a floating disappearing half man creepily hover over…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 31

NYC pedestrians ignore art worth millions being sold for $60 a piece

These black on white canvasses are signed Banksy originals, each of them worth tens of thousands of dollars. Yesterday, the British artist tried to sell them for $60 each in Central Park and failed. Only three people actually bought something, for a grand total of $420. The actual cost: an estimated $224,000. Banksy has said…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 14

Can you think of worse movie car chases than these stupid car chases?

Hollywood, please never stop making painful movies like Escape from L.A. and Speed. The world would be a better place if you did, yes, but we wouldn’t be able to laugh at your infinite ludicrousness. https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-fakest-movie-car-chases-ever-filmed-1041183590

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 6

Today’s School Kids As Dumb As Ever

Despite all the iPads and Internet porn, America’s school kids are just as dumb as their parents—high school test scores have been flat for 40 years, even though today’s kids spent their entire grade-school years being pointlessly tested.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 28

The Definitive Compilation of Segway Fails

Helmet? Check. Segway? Got it. Total dweeb status? Done and done. Under normal circumstances, it’s hard to look at someone riding the personal transportation system without cracking up. But try watching a series of people falling off of Segways, and it’s utterly impossible to keep a straight face. From what it looks like, the Segway…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 22

Fail

Diary From a Lifetime of Tech Failure

What Today’s Kangaroo Fighters Can Learn From the Great Emu War of 1932

Someone Is Trying to Scrub Trump’s Name From the Wikipedia Page of Lieberman’s Law Firm

North Korea Shows It’s Not Ready for Primetime

The Secret iPhone 7 Weaknesses Apple Doesn’t Want You to Know

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

Why My New Year’s Yorkshire Pudding Fell Flat

8 crazy vehicles that no longer exist because they were too crazy

How far are we from Terminator’s killing robots? DARPA has the answer

Video: Super Mario Bros. edited into real life to ruin people’s lives

Skydivers fail to open parachute on time and almost crash on the ground

Catching lobsters with your bare hands looks hilariously impossible

Motorcyclist misses his superman seat grab trick and flies into the air

Haha, watch Portugal launch a drone and immediately fail by crashing it

This video compilation of hilarious military fails is comedic gold

The Chinese government is really really bad at Photoshop

NYC pedestrians ignore art worth millions being sold for $60 a piece

Can you think of worse movie car chases than these stupid car chases?

Today’s School Kids As Dumb As Ever

The Definitive Compilation of Segway Fails

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