Industrial

Inside an Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

There’s always a very special thrill in visiting silent and deteriorating industrial places where hundreds of men and women worked amidst loud machines decades ago. It was not a different feeling taking these photos in the abandoned power plant building of a long gone fabric factory. In 1922, the Elberfelder Textilwerke and the Leipzig Kammgarnspinnerei…

Tech News Attila Nagy Feb 4

Haunting Photos From an Abandoned Steel Mill in China

As China’s economic engine slows, the steel industry is lagging with it. Getty Images photographer Kevin Frayer visited the abandoned Qingquan Steel plant in Tangshan, which closed in 2014. The eerie photos depict just one of the many zombie factories that are left to rot in Hebei province, once home to China’s thriving Steel Belt.…

Tech News Attila Nagy Jan 28

This Hundred-Year-Old Industrial Gem is Like Jabba’s Real Life Palace

The Óbuda Gas Works produced city gas from 1914 to 1984 in the 3rd district of Budapest, on the right bank of River Danube. When it opened, it was not just the most advanced gas producing plant in the world; it was also the most beautiful, with a group of buildings in the middle middle…

Tech News Attila Nagy Dec 25

Abandoned Shipyard Halls Look Magical After Heavy Rain

The abandoned halls of the Ganz Danubius Shipyard and Crane Factory in Budapest are the haunting remains of a once-flourishing industry established more than an hundred years ago in the Austro-Hungarian empire. During its long and complicated history, hundreds of boats and ships were designed, built, repaired and modernised here, on a small peninsula in…

Tech News Attila Nagy Jun 19

Decay and Demolition Inside a Dying Cement Factory

The first cement factory in Hungary has reached its sorry end. The monstrous industrial complex of Lábatlan was established by Balázs Konkoly-Thege on the right bank of river Danube in 1868, and in the very beginning, Roman cement was made here in a wood-fueled 16 chamber furnace. Today, the factory is a lovely ruin—which I…

Tech News Attila Nagy Jan 16

A Rare Look Deep Inside an Old-Fashioned Hydroelectric Power Plant

As a longtime fan of industrial aesthetics, I always look for the chance to get inside any building where roaring machines, buzzing wires, crackling pipe, and chaotic control rooms sit waiting to be explored and photographed—like this 99-year-old Art Deco power plant or this 70-year-old Bauhaus sewage pumping building. I visited Hungary’s Tiszalök Barrage and…

Tech News Attila Nagy Jan 8

Watching this machine punching through metal = Total satisfaction

Behold the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020! I don’t know if the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020 is the best. I don’t know how much the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020 costs. Hell, I don’t know anything about the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020. Except watching it in action is a surprising source of inner satisfaction. Also, trumpf should be a verb. SPLOID…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 18

Watch the Surprisingly Creepy Process of Making Blood Red Paper

You’ve got your remote cabins in the woods; your freaky laboratories; your Saw-like cellars; but the best setting for a horror movie just might be a 130-year-old paper manufacturing plant in London. This short vid shows a shadowed, moody take on how G. F. Smith produces sheets in a single hue in its Colorplan line.…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Jul 29

Metal milling machine video will put anyone into a hypnotic trance

Watch the CTX gamma 2000 TC—a computer-controlled metal milling machine with 4,000 Newton meters of torque. It’s pure metal porn eye candy, so deeply hypnotic that will put you into a trance state. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid James Baker Jun 24

Watch GE Gleefully and Awesomely Destroy Dozens of Random Objects

Remember General Electric’s incredible cadre of machines that exist solely to destroy things? Well, they’ve been using them to destroy things like teapots and baseballs and watches just for fun—and the resulting videos are amazing. It may be all for publicity, but these #SpringBreakIt videos are, hashtag aside, pretty rad. Here are some of our…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 24

Inside Budapest’s Forgotten Temple of Sewage

Here at Gizmodo, we’re obsessed with beautiful old factories, captivating control rooms and fascinating scientific machinery. (Yes, that’s me.) A few weeks ago, I showed you the 99-year-old Kelenföld Power Plant, one of most beautiful industrial places on earth. This time, I’d like to show you another industrial pearl—in a rather hideous place. https://gizmodo.com/the-awesome-control-rooms-that-run-the-world-5955205 A…

Tech News Attila Nagy Sep 11

Reinforce Your Wardrobe With a Industrial-Strength Rebar Hanger

Is all your bad-ass clothing just too much for those flimsy, plastic, run-of-the-mill hangers. Do your pants or shirts, weighted as they are with pounds of pure awesomeness, need something more structurally sound to keep them in order? The “Man Hanger” suits your very strange needs. Made from real, industrial-grade rebar, hand-bent into shape (somehow),…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 28

The Future of Urbanization Looks Mesmerizingly Bleak

As more and more ozone depleting humans start crowding together, we’re going to eventually stain the entire world with concrete streets and flickering street lights. Mountains are going to glow like man-made volcanoes, rivers are going to become brown sludge and new urban cities will be carved into whatever is left of nature. This digitally…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

Going Inside the DayGlo Factory Is a Mind Bending Colorful Trip

Byte Size Science took a tour inside the DayGlo Pigment Plant to show how DayGlo makes all of its fluorescent colors. It’s pretty fascinating—the color becomes taffy textured and then solidified by cooling and then ground up to be like sand and then ground up again to be between 3-5 microns in diamater. And it’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 9

This Self-Teaching Battery Sifter Sorts Cells Solely by Sight

Nickel-cadmium and lithium-ion batteries can’t simply be thrown away—their dangerous heavy metal contents could leak and contaminate the environment. Problem is, batteries have to be sorted by size and type before being recycled, which is both labor-intensive and time-consuming. Luckily, this high-speed battery separating system is anything but manual. It’s called the Optisort. Developed by…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 21

The Timing Chain Clock Makes Me Want to Live in a Factory

For those obsessed with all things industrial, the Timing Chain clock is a piece made for you. Just look at it, the thing looks like it was plucked from an Upton Sinclair-era factory machine and adorned with time markers. Standing 44 inches tall, this wall mounted clock stands leaves its gears and motor exposed and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 3

Home Button Stickers Bring Teen-Inspired Bling To Your iPhone

Not even the home button is safe from gaudy stickers that cheapen the sleek industrial design of the iPhone. Unless you are teenaged girl, then these stick-ons are the best thing that ever happened to you in your whole entire life. Available online from Strapya, these stickers give your home button some flair with their…

Tech News Kelly Jul 6

A Crusher That Could Pulverize The World’s Largest Meteorite to Pebbles in 10 Minutes

The US produces about 26 million tons of industrial sand every year—and it’s not like it’s just getting scooped off the beaches. It’s pulverized from larger rocks in massive crushers, like this one. A Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher is essentially a gigantic, rock-bashing centrifuge. Material is fed in through a port at the top of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 8

Soviet Safety Posters Were Terrifying and Slightly Hilarious

Working in any hazardous factory isn’t a treat, but at least you aren’t met with these horrifying posters, which make it seem like you could be impaled or electrocuted at any moment. That hair-in-drill one looks like it REALLY HURTS. Of course, work safety is serious business, and I’d rather be freaked out by a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 2

A Dock As Magical As Your Latest Apple Product

Not many accessories beat Apple at its own game, but this one would. The Wireless Streaming Music Centre concept makes your iPod seemingly levitate while it streams music through beautifully designed speakers. Sadly, the dock is only in the pre-engineering stages over at Bluelarix Designworks. But the floating iPod, elegant look and streaming instead of…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck Aug 2

Industrial

Inside an Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

Haunting Photos From an Abandoned Steel Mill in China

This Hundred-Year-Old Industrial Gem is Like Jabba’s Real Life Palace

Abandoned Shipyard Halls Look Magical After Heavy Rain

Decay and Demolition Inside a Dying Cement Factory

A Rare Look Deep Inside an Old-Fashioned Hydroelectric Power Plant

Watching this machine punching through metal = Total satisfaction

Watch the Surprisingly Creepy Process of Making Blood Red Paper

Metal milling machine video will put anyone into a hypnotic trance

Watch GE Gleefully and Awesomely Destroy Dozens of Random Objects

Inside Budapest’s Forgotten Temple of Sewage

Reinforce Your Wardrobe With a Industrial-Strength Rebar Hanger

The Future of Urbanization Looks Mesmerizingly Bleak

Going Inside the DayGlo Factory Is a Mind Bending Colorful Trip

This Self-Teaching Battery Sifter Sorts Cells Solely by Sight

The Timing Chain Clock Makes Me Want to Live in a Factory

Home Button Stickers Bring Teen-Inspired Bling To Your iPhone

A Crusher That Could Pulverize The World’s Largest Meteorite to Pebbles in 10 Minutes

Soviet Safety Posters Were Terrifying and Slightly Hilarious

A Dock As Magical As Your Latest Apple Product

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

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