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Find Your Wifi Password in Windows 8.1

A friend wants a slice of your home Wi-Fi but you’ve completely forgotten what the password is, as you connected your laptop about two-and-a-half years ago. If you’re running Windows 8.1, then looking up your password from your laptop or desktop only takes a few clicks of the mouse. Here’s how to do it. You…

Gadgets David Nield

Watch this guy prepare a tiny Japanese feast in a miniature kitchen

Miniature Channel is a Japanese Youtube channel devoted to cooking edible food using cute miniature kitchen supplies. There are many videos: They make curry, tajine, eggs and bacon, and of course, Japanese food. Here are some of their best Japanese miniature dishes. Shrimp tempura Yakitori Sushi Sashimi SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Bandai Want To Turn Your iPhone Into A Delorean

Well, not so much in a way that would allow it to travel in time or fly whatever, but it does turn your otherwise relatively sleek phone into a giant slab of Delorean-shaped plastic. So there’s that! The latest in Bandai’s line of ‘Crazy Cases’ for the iPhone 6 – no other phone is so…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Sony’s SmartEyeglasses Are Here, and Even Dorkier Than Google Glass

Sony releases its AR eyewear, aggressive spyware is found on tons of hard drives, and the world’s best smartwatch gets even better. All this and more on BitStream. Sony’s Google Glass alternative has a better price—and that’s about it The death of Google Glass was well-documented. That little AR wearable went from an exciting technological…

Tech News Darren Orf

I could spend hours watching this guy make his kitchen knives

Ben Edmonds is former graphic designer turned into an artisan. His kitchen knives are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. He crafts them by hand in his small workshop in Derbyshire, England. Watch him make one of them in this beautiful, relaxing video. Here are some of the knives he makes: SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (for This Anti-Piracy Helicopter)

In this spectacular and dramatic long-exposure night shot you can see a Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopter—Dolphin, to its friends—being towed into its hangar aboard Ventôse, a light monitoring frigate of the French Marine Nationale. The frigate was deployed in the Caribbean Sea on a mission to fight against drug trafficking between January 14th and February…

Tech News Attila Nagy

The Loudest and Quietest Places in the U.S., Mapped

If you need some downtime, you could do worse than heading toward the darkest blue regions on this map. The image shows how the loudness of sound varies across the country, based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring. Freshly presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting, the map uses…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The past, the present, and the (possible) future of movie trailers

This interesting video by filmmaker Steven Benedict explains the origins and evolution of movie trailers in American cinema. From the first in 1912, for What happens to Mary, to Kubrick’s great Dr. Strangelove, or the latest Hollywood blockbuster trailers. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

A peek into the life of South Korea’s food porn superstars

Thousands of South Koreans tune in daily to Muk-bang (eating broadcasts): Online live-stream channels where people eats large amounts of food on camera. Those people, called Broadcast Jockeys (BJ’s), became real celebrities that could earn up to $9000 a month just by sharing meals with their lonely audience. This interesting video by Munchies shows how…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

OpenStreetMap Finally Does Directions

OpenStreetMap is an amazing, free, open-source alternative to the other mapping tools on the Internet. And now, it just got a whole lot better: it now offers A-to-B directions, directly from its homepage. While third parties have used OpenStreetMap data to offer directions in the past, the main site now pulls together a number of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Hunting a Silent Killer: How to Cure Hepatitis C in the Undiagnosed

Hepatitis C has a cure, but how do we find those who need it? Patrick Strudwick reports on one attempt to identify some of the estimated 100,000 undiagnosed people in the UK. A young woman – jeans and boots and wild hair – is sitting in a cubicle in the Accident and Emergency department of…

Tech News Patrick Strudwick - Mosaic

How Did This Skull Get Cut Clean in Half?

Don’t worry: that vertical cut was made after the subject died. In fact, it’s an incredibly rare example of vertical skull dissection, most likely performed at the end of the 1800s as a teaching aid. The skull was discovered by Jenna Dittmar from the University of Cambridge in the UK. Found in a dusty part…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Exposed: The Backdoors Spying on Majority of the World’s Hard Drives

New research from Russian researchers at the Kaspersky Lab reveals that the someone—most likely the NSA—has developed spying software that can be hidden deep with hard drives. Known to work with hardware made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and more, it’s said to provide the agency with the means to eavesdrop “on the majority of…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Video: What having super vision to see the wind blowing must look like

We can feel the wind when it hits us and we can track wind patterns when we check the weather and when it’s really strong, we can totally see the effect wind has on the world around us but this video let’s us imagine what seeing actual wind would look like. It looks like ghosts.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Pouring paint on top of paint creates mind melting art

Here’s a nice way to have fun without doing drugs: pour different colors of paint on top of other colors of paint on top of a wooden block. The layers of paint will stack on top of each other and the colors will expand and you’ll get a super psychedelic art piece that looks like…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Century-Old Audio Technique Could Be Key to Virtual Reality

Binaural audio sounds like a no-brainer. Humans have two ears, so we should record sounds with two microphones, right? But the late 1800s technique of sticking microphones inside a pair of life-like ears mounted on a fake head has never been more than a novelty. Which is a shame, because as you’re about to hear,…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Robotic hand made of wires is flexible enough to rotate meditation balls

Baoding balls are two metal balls that are rotated over and over again in one hand for meditation, exercise or rehab purposes. A lot of dexterity and focus and strength is necessary to pull of the rotation. Not everyone can do it! This robotic arm controlled by wires can though. Look at those fake flexible…

Sploid Casey Chan

Your Starship Dock Is Ready Now

One day, parking lots will be a lot more badass. Tyler Thull is a concept artist in Detroit. You can see more of his work in his Art Station gallery.

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Get Trippy on Poker Night With These Glitch Playing Cards

Boy do I love fancy playing cards. Not only do they make playing cards more fun. They also make you want to play cards more often—which is generally healthy, so long as you don’t struggle with a gambling edition. My favorite card game is spades, and boy would that be fun with a trippy deck…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Watch white blood cells swarm and attack a parasite

The human body is such a magnificent thing. Just check out this video that shows how our immune system works. When a parasite finds its way inside a place where it clearly shouldn’t be, white blood cells immediately start rushing to the rescue. It only takes a few seconds for the parasite to get swallowed.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Find Your Wifi Password in Windows 8.1

Watch this guy prepare a tiny Japanese feast in a miniature kitchen

Bandai Want To Turn Your iPhone Into A Delorean

Sony’s SmartEyeglasses Are Here, and Even Dorkier Than Google Glass

I could spend hours watching this guy make his kitchen knives

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (for This Anti-Piracy Helicopter)

The Loudest and Quietest Places in the U.S., Mapped

The past, the present, and the (possible) future of movie trailers

A peek into the life of South Korea’s food porn superstars

OpenStreetMap Finally Does Directions

Hunting a Silent Killer: How to Cure Hepatitis C in the Undiagnosed

How Did This Skull Get Cut Clean in Half?

Exposed: The Backdoors Spying on Majority of the World’s Hard Drives

Video: What having super vision to see the wind blowing must look like

Pouring paint on top of paint creates mind melting art

This Century-Old Audio Technique Could Be Key to Virtual Reality

Robotic hand made of wires is flexible enough to rotate meditation balls

Your Starship Dock Is Ready Now

Get Trippy on Poker Night With These Glitch Playing Cards

Watch white blood cells swarm and attack a parasite

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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