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The camcorder business has seen better years, but Canon is trying something new with its bizarre-looking XC10, a 4K video shooter meant for the discerning video makers who want something small and powerful, that in no way resembles the dad-cams of yore. Typically, if you want to shoot high quality, cinematic video, you’d have to…
These guys took a bunch of images from different peaks of Los Andes—the longest continental mountain range in the world located in the western coast of South America—drew a staff over them, and marked the peaks as notes. An orchestra played this random composition and the result is surprisingly beautiful. The project is called The…
Creating truly flexible electronics requires applying super-thin layers of conducting materials to already bendable materials—but doing so accurately is difficult. Now, a new form of inkjet printing can allow scientists to deposit thin layers of liquid metal into neat, stretchable circuits. The researchers, from Purdue University, had the bright idea that liquid metal could be…
Two days before Marvel’s Daredevil debut on Netflix the guys at Screen Junkiesuploaded another hilarious honest trailer dissecting—or rather ripping apart—Daredevil, the movie. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
For aliens crash-landing on Earth, people who never leave home, and those addicted toGeoguesser, this maps shows which films will help your roughly identify your position in the U.S.. Roughly. [XKCD]
We’ve all been using email for years, but that doesn’t mean that everyone’s mastered it as an art. This video takes a humorous look at how absurd everyday email screw-ups would seem if they happened in real life. Whether it’s not switching off your out-of-office, forgetting attachments or dumb reply-alls, slips in email would seem…
If you haven’t experimented long and hard with the full spectrum of mind-altering substances the guy behind Walmart can sell you, it’s difficult to work out what different highs will do to your grey matter. Sure, you could read Wikipedia; or, you can look at this wonderfully minimalist poster series instead. Meaghan Li is a…
Hearing someone explaining the benefits of sous-vide is really just hearing about the benefits of accurate temperature control. And that’s great — if you only cook things in Ziploc bags. Meld is a Kickstarter project that wants to temperature-control anything that goes on a stovetop — soup, deep-fat fryers, or even beer. It has two…
The list of cool stuff you can do with a Raspberry Pi is pretty much endless (no seriously — Wi-Fi controlled pottery kiln!), but most of the existing designs for portable Pi-ing require a little electronics know-how (and a dash of soldering). The pi-top is an all-in-one kit designed to let you build a laptop…
With the news that the “Netflix for torrents,” PopcornTime, is sneaking past the Apple Iron Shield, I’ve got to ask: given our newfound abundance of free, ad-supported and paid streaming services, who is torrenting these days? And what are you torrenting for? I used to be dedicated to torrents — in high school and college,…
After World War II, people in the U.S. started buying vinyl and record players more than ever before. But over in West Germany, another music player took off: the Tefifon. Invented in the 1930s by a German engineer named Karl Daniel, the Tefifon is like a mash-up of several obsolete music technologies. Like an 8-track,…
How do thieves share their stolen data online? Security firm BitGlass tried to answer the question by leaking a fake trove of profiles that included credit card info and social security numbers. BitGlass placed tracking watermark on the falsified data, so researchers could see each time someone clicked on it. After dropping the bait (a…
I know which one is reality and which one is video game graphics and yet my brain keeps flip flopping and pretending like the video game is real life and real life is actually the game. The graphics are so impressive that in some angles, I honestly can’t tell which is which. This side-by-side video…
Copyright law is a bitch. Just ask Rand Paul’s newly launched presidential campaign whose video “Stand With Rand: Kentucky”just got pulled from YouTubeon copyright grounds. YouTube’s Content ID systemflagged a song in the video by country singer John Rich. “Sorry about that,” says the YouTube page now. It’s hard to figure out who to blame…
Bug guts on your windshield are an inevitable part of life and a reminder of your own fleeting mortality. But they’re also a major drag on the aerodynamics of a car or plane—reducing the fuel efficiency of airplanes as much as a whopping six percent, according to NASA. That’s a major difference in cost, and…
Seismologists have long known that Earth can oscillate like a planet-sized bellafter the shock of an earthquake. More mysterious is why our planet is also oscillating all the time—at low frequencies and barely detectable by instruments. A new study suggests a surprising answer: waves at the bottom of the ocean. Long ocean waves can actually…
Ooh wee! Now this is a fun ride. A GoPro fell from 10,000 feet and basically went into like some sort of drug-induced hyperlapse speed mode as it plummeted to the ground. Basically, it spun all over the place and looks completely crazy. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Don’t watch this excellent compilation video of Pixar movies if you have work you want to get done or plans for fun in the next few days. Because after you watch it, you’ll want to re-watch every single Pixar movie that has ever been made immediately. Just kidding, you’ll want to watch every Pixar movie…
PopcornTime aka basically “Netflix for Torrents” is a wonderful piece of software, but until now it’s been impossible to use it on an iPhone or iPad without jailbreaking the gadgets. Now, the crafty devs have figured out a way to load unauthorized software on a regular iOS device. The original, open source PopcornTime project has…
I mean yeah, he has a shotgun, but the first revealed Terminator Genisys figure from NECA could just as easily double as an “Old Man Arnie” figure, regardless of the fact he’s meant to be a Killer Robot. In fact, now I just kind of want an Arnold Schwarzenegger toy line. Think of all the…
