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Movies are already not real (and often ask you to suspend your disbelief) so when you see a character start dreaming in movies, well, you know things are about to get weird. Here’s a supercut of those weird scenes from Dreamscience that features iconic dream sequences from movies like American Beauty, Inception, Eternal Sunshine and…
If you’re a fan of olde-timey futuristic cars you may have seen the photo above pulsating through your streams this weekend. Is it really what people of 1952 thought cars of the future would look like? Not exactly. But it’s still really cool! This plexiglass Plymouth from the 1952 Chicago Auto Show was actually just…
Facebook wants to be so much more than just a social network app. It wants to be your go-to SMS with Messenger. It wants to be a Reddit replacement with Rooms. You can even overlay Android with Facebook Home. Now your dialer is in Zuck’s crosshairs. The screenshot above is courtesy of David Ruddock at…
The Islamic State’s “Hacking Division” has posted personal information about more than 100 US military personnel online, and is encouraging supporters in America to use the info to kill the military members. Doxing is the latest digital weapon in ISIS’s tech-savvy arsenal. ISIS claims that it hacked military servers and emails for the information, but…
It did win them the Grammy for Album of the Year, but die-hard Daft Punk fans know that Random Access Memories was not the duo’s best work. But even mediocre Daft Punk is better than no Daft Punk at all, and the recent album means we now get a new pair of detailed figures of…
Cool. Nice. Damn. lollollollollollollollollol. ⊙_⊙ oh, hmm. ⊙﹏⊙. K, thks ツ ❤ [lel, nice] An earlier version of this story erroneously referred to a lel as a lol. Gizmodo regrets the errror.
With iOS 8, Apple introduced a row of contact shortcuts at the top of the multitasking screen (tap twice on Home to get to it). If you want to take more control over which faces you see here, or you want to shut off the feature altogether, these are the settings you need to tweak.…
Kids are already a pretty fantastic workout since they require constant attention, but if you find your fitness routine hindered by having to deal with a cumbersome stroller, you’ll probably be intrigued by the KidRunner. It’s a new take on the stroller that’s pulled instead of pushed, letting you easily bring your kids along for…
The frenetic editing of this video highlights the out of the box thinking that enabled Mac Premo and Sanford Shapes to create skateboards out of trash. It’s a fun story that resulted in them repurposing leftover plastic buckets into perfectly awesome skateboard decks. The materials all come from the dumpster. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Goulash is a very popular Hungarian stew made with beef, vegetables, and spices. There are many ways of making Goulash but this recipe, by the guys at Malackaraj, is simple, genuine, and the only one you need to learn. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Located 13,500 feet above sea level on the slopes of Mexico’s Volcán Sierra Negra, a new scientific tool comprised of 300 huge tanks holding 55 million liters of water, will soon detect the highest energy photons ever observed. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory was inaugurated a few days ago, March 20, and…
Take a big bowl. Add one cup of The Matrix, two table spoons of Inception, and a few drops of District 9 essence. Whisk it up until even and you’ll get Sundays: A proof-of-concept short film directed by Mischa Rozema that, hopefully, will soon be turned into a feature. SPLOID SELECTS is a series where…
Android gets more secure (kind of), Google builds an Ebola tablet, and OnePlus goes gaming, maybe. This is all the news and rumors you missed over the weekend, and it’s all on BitStream. Passcodes and lock screens are a necessary pain in the ass, especially if you don’t want to suffer the terrible fate of…
The maze that Pac-Man has to navigate in his quest to gobble up all those pellets is nothing compared to the laundry-covered floor that most of us have to tip-toe through on our way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. And while the ghosts in Pac-Man serve as a hindrance, this color-changing…
Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous—as is their gradual degradation over the lifetime of a gadget. Now, using a new imaging technique, a team of researchers shows what happens deep within li-on cells as they charge and discharge. The team, from the Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, has created what they call an…
It might look like something out of a nightclub, but this so-called Wide-angle Optical Multi-channel Probe is straight from the research halls of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. You’d be entitled to ask why they were in possession of such a piece of kit. So here’s a brief explanation of what it can do: This…
French illustrator Guillaume Cornet loves making large but insanely detailed drawings of cities full of surreal little characters. This mesmerizing time lapse shows the process of making his last work: A humorous depiction of a Parisian neighborhood. Guillaume Cornet aka “Mr Guil” is an artist working with illustration and painting. His works tends to be…
While much attention has been paid to America’s National Security Agency over the last two years, reports now suggest that Canada’s Communications Security Establishment has been playing hardball too. A report by The Intercept claims that the agency’s “developed an arsenal of cyber weapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries’ infrastructure.” In documents leaked…
You have to do something with all that time technology saves you. Right? [XKCD]
Construction teams around the world rely on bitumen—an incredibly sticky by-product of crude oil production—as the main binding agent for asphalt. But a team of scientists reckon that a compound found within plants could help replace it, making road-building a greener, more sustainable practice. Ted Slaghek and his colleagues form TNO, a non-profit from the…
