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What the Hell Is This Sponge-Like Crap Washing Up on France’s Shores?

Late last week, strange sponge-like clumps began washing ashore in northern France. By the weekend, thousands of the foamy yellow balls were seen along nearly 20 miles of the coastline. Local authorities aren’t sure where the unsightly stuff is coming from, and an investigation is currently underway. As reported in The Local, this mysterious substance…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jul 18

Explosion at Philadelphia Power Station Unleashes the Foam

An explosion at a power substation in Philadelphia left 2,700 people without power and set off the station’s fire suppression systems. Then, an impressive quantity of foam spewed out and eventually spilled over into an street below. If you watch to the end of the video, you can briefly see what seems to be another…

Tech News William Turton Dec 5

A 3D-Printing Soap Suds Pen Takes Bubble Baths to the Next Level

Replacing desktop 3D printers with hand-held 3D-printing pens never quite lived up to the promise of letting users turn sketches into real-life objects. And that’s partly because 3D-printing pens aren’t as forgiving as this 3D Foam Pen that swaps melted plastic for soap suds. The $42 foam pen is also much safer than 3D-printing pens…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 24

French Town Attacked by Foam, Is Foam Town Now

The town of Penmarch, on the northwestern tip of France, isn’t famous for anything—yet. But wait until FoamHeads get a load of this. Penmarch is POISED to become the world’s number one vacation destination for fish froth enthusiasts. Video uploaded yesterday shows a blizzard of quivering sea foam coating the town’s Port Saint-Guénolé. The cause…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Feb 9

Putting Exploding Expanding Foam Inside a House Is Totally Crazy

Here’s an easy way to both clean an entire house while totally destroying it in the process: release expanding foam that will cause a huge explosion and spray foam everywhere. It’s a fun little thing to see happen (especially if it’s not your home) because the foam monster grows and grows and shoots its guts…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 19

The Best Nerf Gun for Every Kid (At Heart)

As a kid, I strapped a Nerf gun to my bicycle so I could dive bomb the neighborhood kids, while traveling—I imagined—at five times the speed of sound. As an adult, I’ve carried a foam-firing blaster to no fewer than three jobs. But a funny thing happened last year: I realized my old guns weren’t…

Tech News Sean Hollister Sep 19

Your Next Yoga Mat Might Be Made From Algae

It’s the last thing you want to find floating on your backyard pool, but a Mississippi-based company called Bloom has developed a way to turn algae, that green slimy goo that makes it unpleasant to swim in a lake, into eco-friendly foam for use in yoga mats, sandals, or luggage. The company has developed a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 26

Red hot nickel ball burning through foam breaks the color spectrum

The colors! The colors! Holy cow, the colors. The world destroyer that is the red hot nickel ball got put to task on floral foam and the result is an awesome burn through that unleashes so many colors and then creates scales and pretty much topples the entire foam tower. Always a pleasure, red hot…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 3

Turn These Giant Bundles of Foam Into Comfy Custom Seating

At most you can customize a chair bought at a furniture store with a throw pillow or a blanket. But Keren Shiker’s wonderful Sink In seat actually starts off as a large bundle of foam pieces that have to be slid around before you can comfortably sit. It’s not unlike those pinart toys that use…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 29

This Beer Gadget Gave Me Perfect Head

Fizzics is a new gadget that’s precision engineered to perfectly pour your beer. It’s an impressively designed toy. I just tried it, and OK, maybe I’m a little drunk, but I think I’m in love. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s weekly booze etc.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 1

Researchers Turn Packing Peanuts Into Rechargeable Batteries

Many of us have shared the guilty twinge of pouring a box of packing peanuts into a trash bag, knowing that our convenient foam waste will end up sitting in a landfill for the next few thousand years. Soon, however, we may be able to juice these little nuts for energy. That’s because chemical engineers…

Tech News Maddie Stone Mar 22

This foam can raise and remove complete concrete slabs from sidewalks

Watch this high-density polyurethane foam raise concrete slabs thanks to the magic of physics. The foam, called PolyLEVEL, is applied through a hole drilled in the concrete, expanding under the concrete and pushing it up. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jan 22

Why Grease Kills The Head On A Beer

A bit of grease from pizza residue or lipstick doesn’t do too much to eliminate soda bubbles, but if flattens the head on beer. Why? The bubbles at the top of a newly-poured glass of soda and the bubbles at the top of a newly-poured glass of beer look pretty much the same – at…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 19

Why It’s A Lot Harder To Spill Beer Than Coffee

I think it’s well known that beer is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. But aside from the perfect taste, and ability to make in-laws seem magically more tolerable, it turns out that beer also has its very own built-in anti-spill mechanism. Scientists from Princeton University noticed that liquids with a foamy top — like latte,…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 27

Gorgeous short seems like 3D animation but it’s made with styrofoam

Mikey Please and his team spent one year making this astonishing six minute long stop motion film using just styrofoam. It’s so perfect I thought it was 3D. I can’t even imagine the amount of work they needed to make a piece of foam wave with the wind. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jul 29

Nerf-Like Foam Headphones Your Kids Won’t Instantly Destroy

There’s a reason brands like Nerf and Tonka are popular with parents: it’s because they’re almost impossible for kids to destroy. So Marblue decided to take a similar approach with its headphones designed for kids, by making the frame out of nearly indestructible foam. And of course, they called them Headfoams. Available in bright orange,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 23

Stripped car transforms into exotic sports car with magic foam

Reddit user Geeky_ shows how a scrap car can be magically transformed into an exotic sports car with expanding foam. The car, which is pretty much just a stripped metal body, gets fattened up with luxurious curves and looks like it costs a million bucks. Slick. Painted blob never looked so good. Granted the car…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 10

Scientists discover why beer bottles overflow after a sudden impact

Using high speed cameras and lots of complex physics, scientists have uncovered one of the greatest mysteries of modern civilization: why the hell beer turns to foam and overflows from a bottle when you hit it hard at the top? Unsolved mystery: why people who do this “prank” are such jerks? https://gizmodo.com/the-fascinating-science-behind-why-a-tapped-beer-foams-1451022759

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 24

Soft Foam Cabinets Are the Ultimate Kid-Friendly Furniture

If you’ve got little kids crawling, walking, or running around, your home is probably a maze of security gates, closed doors, and padded corners. As a parent there’s no such thing as too much safety, and Netherlands-based Studio Dewi van de Klomp’s unique line of soft foam cabinets could be the perfect furniture solution until…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 9

This physics simulation is one of the most accurate you’ll ever see

Physicists from Berkeley say they’ve figured out the insanely complex math behind the way bubbles pop when they’re in a foam — and they’ve got an extraordinarily accurate video to prove it. The math behind a single bubble popping is relatively straightforward. Scale that up to a cluster of foamy soap bubbles, on the other…

io9 George Dvorsky May 13

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What the Hell Is This Sponge-Like Crap Washing Up on France’s Shores?

Explosion at Philadelphia Power Station Unleashes the Foam

A 3D-Printing Soap Suds Pen Takes Bubble Baths to the Next Level

French Town Attacked by Foam, Is Foam Town Now

Putting Exploding Expanding Foam Inside a House Is Totally Crazy

The Best Nerf Gun for Every Kid (At Heart)

Your Next Yoga Mat Might Be Made From Algae

Red hot nickel ball burning through foam breaks the color spectrum

Turn These Giant Bundles of Foam Into Comfy Custom Seating

This Beer Gadget Gave Me Perfect Head

Researchers Turn Packing Peanuts Into Rechargeable Batteries

This foam can raise and remove complete concrete slabs from sidewalks

Why Grease Kills The Head On A Beer

Why It’s A Lot Harder To Spill Beer Than Coffee

Gorgeous short seems like 3D animation but it’s made with styrofoam

Nerf-Like Foam Headphones Your Kids Won’t Instantly Destroy

Stripped car transforms into exotic sports car with magic foam

Scientists discover why beer bottles overflow after a sudden impact

Soft Foam Cabinets Are the Ultimate Kid-Friendly Furniture

This physics simulation is one of the most accurate you’ll ever see

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