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Everything in slow motion looks cooler. But there are always exceptions. In this case, the exception is called Leonard (Martin Starr): A white collar worker with a serious slow motion condition. The film was directed by Peter Livolsi. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
When you’re sat at the steering wheel stuck in traffic of a morning, you probably think you know when everyone leaves for work: exactly the same time as you do. But digging into data about the great American commute, it turns out that we’re not all that predictable. The animated map, put together by Nathan…
We recently reviewed the burly Samsung NX1, a rather advanced mirrorless camera that looks like a DSLR. Well, now you can have the same guts in a camera that fits in a jacket pocket! The NX500 is practically the same camera, and that means an awful lot of power for a camera this small. It’s…
Twitter’s long had a problemwith trolls hurling abuse and harassing other users. Now, its CEO Dick Costolo has admitted how big the problem is, accepting that the blame lies squarely at his feet and declaring that the company will make dramatic changes to help stamp it out. In a series of leaked internal memos obtained…
Here is a great post from over on Sploid of an extremely clever stop motion video of what looks like painting with Lego bricks. It’s really amazing how when dipping into the palette the bricks change as if to show the thinning of the paint as it is applied to the brush. I really enjoy…
Apple has a long and tortured history when it comes to the development of its own TV offering. But now, it seems Apple may be trying once more to build its own small-screen provision. According to Re/code, Apple is currently in a new set of talks with TV programmers to develop its own “over the…
Small, retro, stylish: the Olympus OM-D EM-5 was one of the first mirrorless cameras to charm discerning photographers. The new E-M5 Mark II brings all that back, plus a wild new mode that magically gives you 40 megapixel images from a 16 megapixel sensor. And that’s just one of the improvements. The E-M5 Mark II…
Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S., admitted today that it got majorly hacked, exposing the Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and more of what may be millions of customers. Little information has been released about the hack so far, though Anthem President and CEO Joseph R. Swedish called it a “very sophisticated…
Nature is never not amazing. Even the simplest things—things you’ve seen in 7th grade science class—are impressive to watch again and again. Like this time lapse of an acorn transforming itself into an oak seedling over a period of 8 months. One day, that little guy is going to be one helluva tree. SPLOID is…
I love this stop motion animation video so much. Created by animator Jon Rolph, it shows a painter painting but instead of using regular ol’ paint, the paint is made of Lego. It’s so clever and so well done, you can see how the lighter brushstrokes use different bricks from the finished painting. SPLOID is…
Your keyboard is boring—it doesn’t do anything special or unique. You could change that: some crazy bastards in China have built a keyboard that’s secretly a quad-core Android PC. This thing is like a supercharged version of the Commodore 64: a keyboard with a power cable, USB plugs and an HDMI port. Plop it down…
In the 1960 movie based on the H.G. Wells book The Time Machine, Rod Taylor climbs into this contraption and travels far into the future. This build of The Time Machine, by Carl Merriam, is a glorious rendition of that machine with a bunch of little details and some extremely creative element usage. The first…
Being an ant is hard. Being an ant around humans is even harder. Being an ant around humans who are skating on a skateboard in a skateboard is pretty much impossible. This video uses CGI to imagine the struggle of an ant at the park and pretty much everything is either an obstacle or a…
In all of its beauty, the Alfa Romeo 4C quickly climbed the charts as one of my favorite attainable super-cars. When they released the images of the Spider version, my lust grew even stronger. Jeroen Ottens has now made a Lego Technic version, melding together two great loves of mine in one beautiful package. He…
It’s a wonderful sensation when you encounter something you’ve seen countless times before, only from a different vantage point. The electric glow of neon signs is familiar in all big cities around the world, but seeing them from the vantage point of photographer Rainer Torrado lends them an entirely new shape. Torrado’s series, Eye Carry…
D’Espresso was a neat coffee shop on 317 Madison Avenue, New York, that had its walls, ceiling, and floor turned 90 degrees. It makes me sightly dizzy when I look at the photo. Maybe that’s why it does not exist anymore. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The light angle helps, no doubt, but the depth of the ink inthis microscope photo of a one dollar bill is impressive. Keep in mind that the dollar bill is only 0.0043 inches thick (o.1 millimeters): SIZE: US currency bills are are 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long; they are .0043 inches thick and…
When it rains in California, it really damn pours. The weather phenomenon is known as an atmospheric river, a narrow but concentrated band of moisture that can transport as much water vapor as 15 Mississippi Rivers. Atmospheric rivers can make or break a drought, but there’s still so much we don’t know about how or…
I didn’t know that the Svalbard Seed Vault—the doomsday ark that will keep safe the seeds for 820,619 plants in case of nuclear war, massive natural catastrophes, or asteroid impacts—looked this amazing at night. It clearly looks the part. High five, architects. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Inspired by the neon works of artists like Dan Flavin, London’s Minimalux has created a simple box-shaped lamp that creates the look of neon lighting—long thin slits of light—without that buzzing sound that’s become the hallmark of city centers the world over. The Neon Light lamps are made from a single piece of thin steel…
