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Sprint has announced that it will close down its WiMAX network on November 6th 2015. So, if you haven’t made the switch to LTE, you have about a year to consider your upgrade options

Seeing an old anvil get restored is surprisingly enjoyable

Wow. This is actually really cool. Jimmy DiResta found an old anvil from an antique store and restored it to its previous glory. The finished restored anvil looks fantastic but it’s the entire process that’s got me slack jawed. All the sparkles and whirring and refining and polishing makes restoring look like a form of…

Daredevils climb a skyscraper in Hong Kong to hijack a billboard

Hong Kong is one of those crazy future cities in the world where buildings kiss the sky and people are stacked on top of people and streets hide alleys which hide labyrinths which hide awesome. It’s great. It’s also great for climbing to the top of a skyscraper to hijack a billboard. These guys proved…

Genius invents machine gun that makes and fires paper airplanes

This German genius has created one of the most awesome inventions in recent memory, one that will bring incredible voice to humanity: A fully automated paper airplane machine gun. Yes, people: A machine gun that folds plain paper sheets into airplanes and then fire them across the sky. He fully designed it and then 3D…

Pearl Jam: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

I was born in 1981. In internet parlance, I believe that means I qualify as both an “80s kid” and a “90s kid” and have fond memories for both decades. Music was not necessarily better back then, but songs you hear when you’re growing up sure do strum at the ol’ heartstrings in a way…

What are your actual chances of winning at McDonald’s Monopoly?

Man, was I ever excited when I saw that McDonald’s Monopoly was back this year! I had a blast looking at the Roll Up the Rim stats last year, and hoped I could do the same for Monopoly this year. Then I was pretty disappointed to realize that Business Insider had done their own analysis,…

Mad man rides motorcycle over a bridge’s arch beam

Bridges to normal humans are things that make life easier because they connect things that, well, don’t connect. We get on it and we get to the other side. Bridges to this professional stuntman are obstacles meant for epic stunts, like riding a motorcycle on top of one of the bridge’s arch beam! And somehow,…

Check Out Gotham City’s Turbulent Pre-Batman Days in FOX’s Pulpy Gotham

If you liked the Christopher Nolan Batman movies but wished they were less grim, more outlandish, serialized into a TV show, and starring Ben “Ryan Atwood” McKenzie, you might like Gotham, Fox’s stylish new drama set in an especially baroque, violent incarnation of Gotham City. Bruce Wayne is just a kid, but his parents have…

This deliciously juicy cheeseburger is actually completely vegetarian

If the patty looks like meat, if it bleeds like meat and if it sizzles like meat… the patty can somehow be a plant-based vegetarian burger, just like the cheeseburger above. It’s called the Impossible Cheeseburger and it’s completely made from plants. You don’t even have to eat a veggie burger to know that most…

This Lego Ferrari F40 is the coolest

Jorge Pesi is one of the best Technic model builders around and his Ferrari F40 does not disappoint. From working suspension at each corner, functional steering and opening doors, trunk and bonnet this build has all the features you’d expect from this pro. The F40 is up on Lego Ideas for voting. We’d love to…

80 percent of America’s canned pumpkin comes from one Illinois town

Starbucks can keep its Pumpkin(less) Spice Lattes. We, as a nation, get our real festive fix from pumpkin pies—and we’ve got one small town to thank for that. Morton, Illinois provides Americans with 80 percent of the deliciously globby, straight-from-a-can pumpkin filling that we gobble down a few months of the year. The Libby’s brand…

Leaked Droid Turbo Manual Shows a Super-Powered Motorola Smartphone

We’re anticipating a giant-sized, Moto X-inspired Nexus 6 any day from Google’s camp, but new leaks appear to confirm the new Droid Turbo with an impressive amount of smartphone engineering from Motorola. So what new superpowers does the Droid Turbo lord over its Moto X (2014) predecessor? This leaked user’s guide on MotoFirmware doesn’t leave…

Screw Cars, Meet the Google Street View Camel

Google Street View has taken us to the ends of the world and back (in time). But now, its taking us where no Street View camera has taken us before—into the Arabian desert on the back of a 10-year-old camel named Raffia. Thanks to the camera-strapped camel, we now havesome pretty awesome 360-degree tours of…

Brilliant mashup covers 20 Queen songs in one minute

Being a Queen fan since I was little kid, I had my doubts about anyone covering 20 Queen songs in one single 60-second song and making any sense. I stand corrected: This medley is brilliant, smoothly morphing one song into each other while keeping every single hit recognizable. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Ebola Airport Screenings Won’t Do a Damn Thing

Along with shoe X-rays and toiletries in ziploc bags, we can now welcome fever checks as the latest addition to airport security theater. Today, U.S. officials announced they will screen passengers coming to five major airports from the African countries hit worst by Ebola—despite no real evidence that it will make us safer. To be…

How to Go About Burying 16,000-Ton Tunnel Segments Under a River

Throughout the summer, six large barge-like vessels floated out of Baltimore’s harbor. These weren’t boats, they were giant concrete tubes, destined for a tunnel in Southern Virginia that will expand a busy subterranean highway that connects two parts of the state. This week, those tunnel segments will start to be installed under the Elizabeth River…

Watching people play with magical Kinetic Sand is so freaking trippy

I didn’t have a clue that Kinetic Sand existed. This Swedish invention is made of 98-percent sand and two-percent sorcery, so it sticks to itself and nothing else, allowing you to cut it clean. And then it feels like it moves on its own, which is creepy. Like some weird matter that is alive. My…

These previously unseen Star Wars posters look absolutely awesome

The fifth and final book in George Lucas’ Star Wars Art series, Posters, is hitting shelves next week – and nestled within it are some gorgeous, never before seen posters considered for use during advertisement campaigns for all six movies. The book itself collates the art of hundreds of posters used to advertise Star Wars…

This Neck Support Lets You Nap Practically Anywhere

If there’s one thing mankind doesn’t have enough of, and never will, it’s contraptions that make it easier and more comfortable to stop and have a nap—anywhere. Designed to replace those floppy neck pillows that never really work, the NapAnywhere works kind of like a neck brace, but instead of letting your spine heal, it…

How NASA will launch and test their new spaceship on December 4

NASA has published a cool video showing how the first test of Orion—the spaceship that will take us to the Moon and Mars—will be. The Orion spaceship will be launched on top of a Delta rocket on December 4. As the flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft nears, the agency released Wednesday a video —…