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The insane skills of a concert pianist in a cool POV video

A video of guy playing piano could sound like a boring thing to watch but, if that guy is the skillful and amazingly talented concert pianist Jason Pelsey, it can be as extreme as any insane wingsuit clip we shared here. Check it out. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Is How You Make the Wheels For a 1,000MPH Car

The wheels that will hopefully power the Bloodhound SSC car to speeds of over 1,000mph are now in production, with four of the finest aluminium alloy wheels being carved to extremely precise shape. Scotland’s Castle Engineering is heading up the wheel team and see the development of the car and its cutting edge bits as…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

Peer Into the Inside of Our Planet With This Trippy Computer Simulation

This trippy orb isn’t the result of a youth misspent. Instead, the it’s the fruits of complex computer simulations which use the speed of seismic waves from earthquakes to visualize the existence of subterranean structures far beneath the surface of our planet. Created by Ebru Bozdağ from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and David…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Use Smart Folders on OS X To Put All Your Photos in One Convenient Place

Smart folders have been available in Mac OS X since 10.4, but if you’re new to the platform—or haven’t really explored it—then you might not know how useful they can be. These “saved searches” give you instant access to files matching a particular set of criteria, so they’re perfect for picking out pictures taken with…

Gadgets David Nield

Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

Sequence—a great short film by Spanish director Carles Torrens—starts with a guy waking up one day. The girl he loves hates him because she had a terrible nightmare where he was doing something utterly horrible. They argue, he leaves to work, and finds out the whole world had that exact same dream and hates him…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

A Boston Dynamics Robot Montage Set to Scarface’s Push It To The Limit

Boston Dynamic’s robots increasingly resemble something from a Hollywood movie. So this montage of the automatons in action, set to the iconic piece of 80s movie soundtracking that is Scarface (Push it to the Limit), is so very right. And so very wonderful, too. Featuring the like of the Atlas robots running upstairs and PetMan…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Oculus Rift Might Not Even Launch This Year

It’s been a long few years since the Oculus Rift’s Kickstarter took $2.4 million in funding, becoming a “real thing” on the first step towards this latest wave of virtual reality enthusiasm. But we’ve yet to see a consumer release date announced and, according to inventor Palmer Luckey at a SXSW 2015 panel, that’s unlikely…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

New Li-On Battery Lasts Twice as Long—and, Backed By Dyson, Could Sell

Rarely a week passes without the report of a new battery technology, but most appear destined to remain within the lab for years. Now, though, a start-up called Sakti3 has a li-on battery that lasts twice as long as most—and $15 million of support from Dyson to make it a reality. Sakti3’s new batteries make…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why It Pays to Check You’re Talking to the Right Call Center Worker

However frustrated you are, however adamant you are that you’re in the right, it always pays to make sure you’re ranting at the correct call center worker. Because not doing might just frustrate you more. [Doghouse Diaries]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Erosion Exposes Curving Sedimentary Beds In The Land Of Terror

The harsh terrain of the Tanezrouft Basin earns it an ominous nickname: Land of Terror. A rough wilderness of stone and shifting dunes constantly blasted by relentless wind, this is a land of rugged beauty and geology laid bare. Long ago, water eroded the canyons, basins, and plateaus of this basin in the Algerian Sahara.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Withdrawing Cash With a Smartphone Could Beat The Card Skimmers

The U.S. loses more money to card fraud than the rest of the world combined — something that’s mostly down to the magnetic stripes that make our cards incredibly hackable. Although more secure technologies are coming, they’ll require time and money to adopt. But one kindly Canadian bank has a secure system that only needs…

Tech News Chris Mills

Designing a Shadowless Skyscraper Isn’t Magic, Just Good Science

The boom in skyscrapers is good for elevator manufacturers, but can be bad for residents who have to live in the shadow (literally or otherwise). Using computer-aided design and some seriously big mirrors, architects in London have come up with a plan to build a pair of skyscrapers with no shadow at all. As Wired…

Tech News Chris Mills

Well, That’s One Way To Beat the Sunday Lab Blues

If you ever worked in a bio or chemistry lab, there’s a good chance you’ve spent hours shaking a solution on one of these orbital shakers. Or, if you went to grad school, hundreds of hours shaking thousands of solutions. Apparently, somebody got lonely and decided their shaker needed a little more personality. Who better…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Humans Killed Nearly 3 Million Whales in the 20th Century

International whaling bans have been in effect since the early 1980s, but many populations have been slow to recover. Using the current International Whaling Commission database and other sources, a new study helps explain why. Basically, we killed a lot more whales than we realized. According to the study’s abstract: In sum, we estimate that…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Modern Technology Began in Garages, and So May The Future of Batteries

Welcome to another Sunday and another round up of wonderful science and tech reads from around the web. We’ve got tons of great stuff, all worthy of carving a few minutes out of your busy (or lax) Sunday. This week we’re talking about Google’s dichotomy as an information index and glorified advertiser, the very real…

Tech News Darren Orf

These Kinetic Sculptures are Like Beautiful Nightmares

These mesmerizing gifs are, quite literally, the stuff of nightmares. Strange, lovely nightmares. They’re snippets of scenes from re-belief, a zoetropic short film created by Raymond McCarthy Bergeron, a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Each gif depicts a sculpture that McCarthy Bergeron designed using the animation software Autodesk Maya, 3D-printed in one…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Super Mario Runs Left to Right Because Our Brains Say So

Does this gif hurt your brain? You’re not alone. Ever wonder why side-scrolling video games from the 80’s and 90’s almost always scroll in a single direction—left to right? This might seem like a silly question (duh…it just makes sense that way), but if you really think about it, it is a little odd. Why…

Tech News Maddie Stone

It’s Snowing On Hawaii

This past Thursday, a blizzard warning was in effect on the Big Island of Hawaii. Yes, even on Hawaii, it snows. Snow on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that stands some 4,200 meters above sea level, is not unprecedented, but it is unusual. NASA’s Operational Land Image Manager captured a rare image of the snow-capped…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Hungry Slime Molds Reconstruct Ancient Road Networks

You probably don’t give too much thought to slime molds—the bizarre, colonial organisms that look like blobs of goo. But these underrated creatures have some surprising talents, including designing sophisticated transportation networks. That’s the surprising truth recently demonstrated by a study in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, in which researchers use the bright yellow…

Tech News Maddie Stone

This Lego-Modded Glue Gun is A Handheld 3D Printer

Tired of the same old, boring laminated pattern that’s in all of your 3D printed stuff? Industrial design student Vimal Patel was, and so he decided to fashion himself a 3D doodler, out of a hot glue gun which he modded with a custom Lego extruder. You know, obviously. According to Patel’s website, the idea…

Gadgets Maddie Stone

The insane skills of a concert pianist in a cool POV video

This Is How You Make the Wheels For a 1,000MPH Car

Peer Into the Inside of Our Planet With This Trippy Computer Simulation

Use Smart Folders on OS X To Put All Your Photos in One Convenient Place

Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

A Boston Dynamics Robot Montage Set to Scarface’s Push It To The Limit

Oculus Rift Might Not Even Launch This Year

New Li-On Battery Lasts Twice as Long—and, Backed By Dyson, Could Sell

Why It Pays to Check You’re Talking to the Right Call Center Worker

Erosion Exposes Curving Sedimentary Beds In The Land Of Terror

Withdrawing Cash With a Smartphone Could Beat The Card Skimmers

Designing a Shadowless Skyscraper Isn’t Magic, Just Good Science

Well, That’s One Way To Beat the Sunday Lab Blues

Humans Killed Nearly 3 Million Whales in the 20th Century

Modern Technology Began in Garages, and So May The Future of Batteries

These Kinetic Sculptures are Like Beautiful Nightmares

Super Mario Runs Left to Right Because Our Brains Say So

It’s Snowing On Hawaii

Hungry Slime Molds Reconstruct Ancient Road Networks

This Lego-Modded Glue Gun is A Handheld 3D Printer

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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