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It doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you are not tough enough, you can’t afford this car. If that were true we would be living in a completely different planet with a completely different set of principles. But this is Earth and this video is just an ad. A pretty good one. SPLOID…
This floral fabrication may look luxurious, but in fact it has a rather down-to-earth aim: to take renewable energy and warm water to remote, off-grid communities. The 10-metre structure is designed to fit, when folded up, into a single shipping container. Once it unfurls, though, it becomes a sun-tracking device that can clean water, generate…
Apple’s just released a new version of its Apple Watch design video. While that’s not newsworthy in itself, it’s interesting to note that it’s also reduced the screen size of the watch that’s on display, too. A very keen-eyed 9to5mac reader noticed that the watch in the newly released video features a larger bezel and…
Honestly, don’t you cringe a little every time you have to write a full sentence using a pen these days? [Truth Facts]
The Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. spoke out yesterday about backdoors in consumer technology, claiming that they should be left open by technology firms so that law enforcement officials are never locked out during important investigations. Speaking about new forms of encryption that could theoretically prevent police officers and other government officials from accessing…
Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is set to announce a refresh of its iPad range later this month, including the addition of a gold color way—but the rumored 12.9-inch version apparently won’t appear until next year. https://gizmodo.com/report-gigantic-12-9-inch-ipads-are-coming-next-year-1627109295 Sources “familiar with the plans” claim that Apple will announce new versions of its 9.7-inch tablets this month.…
A trio of 9 year olds and a 6 year old helped Prince Ea come up with this lovely stop motion animation video that uses their illustrations to answer the meaning of life. Obviously, the third graders had some help in answering that unanswerable question but their illustrations are so cute and their speech is…
It’s an obvious stunt. Nestle Fitness outfitted a woman with a bra camera to show just how many people sneak a glance throughout the day. Spoiler! It’s a lot of random eyeballs. Why did they do this? Nestle Fitness says: to remind women around the world to check their breasts regularly to help prevent breast…
Did you miss our real-time coverage of Microsoft’s Windows 10 reveal? You can now watch all 40 minutes of the presentation yourself in this video. [YouTube via The Verge]
Here’s the official music video for Pharrell Williams’ latest single “It Girl”. It’s a visual trip that combines lovely anime and nostalgia inducing 8-bit video games with the always colorful imagination of artist Takashi Murakami. It’s not so much a music video as it is moving art. This is part of a series in which…
Before the creative project there is: the brief. It’s a concise communication nugget developed between a client and an artist, or an architect, or a designer, that clearly lays out the mission for the task at hand. Briefly is a short doc that explores the complexity of this short form through the perspective of six…
I think we should re-visit the playgrounds of our childhood to see how much fun we can have now. Because if it’s anything like these guys from the Streaks Show, it looks like it’ll be an insane amount of fun. I mean, they used a seesaw to basically jump flip out of the world of…
Scotland might be the spiritual home of whisky, but Japan is perfecting its own unique take on the liquor. At Nikka’s Yoichi distillery in Hokkaido, watching a barrel get charred—for flavor!—looks a hell of lot like the living flames of satan’s demons are being unleashed from within those wooden staves. The fire is (obviously) put…
It’s hard to find good, quality You Time when you’re collaborating with Kanye West, Rick Ross, and Pusha-T (not to mention Azealia Banks, Action Bronson, and many, many others). But after a couple of busy years, 28-year-old Scottish DJ Hudson Mohawke has finally put out a new EP. The album art for the record—which is…
Kudos to General Electric for hiring actor Jeff Goldblum and directors Tim and Eric to make this hilarious commercial to promote their new LED lightbulbs. I’m a fan of Philips’ LEDs but, after this, I will be checking GE again. Because I’m that easy to convince and it’s Jeff fucking Goldblum, ok? SPLOID is a…
Arduino is at the heart of do-it-yourself electronics, and now the company wants to make inroads into additive manufacturing with its 3D printer: The Arduino Materia 101. As Arduino explains in a blog post, the PLA printer is being built for the purpose of “simplifying access to the world of 3D printing and rapid prototyping.”…
Phil Hansen is a multimedia artist “who specializes in representative portraiture using media that connect to the subject matter.” This portrait of Nikola Tesla using electricity is the perfect example of that. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Science illustrator and animator Eleanor Lutz has created these cool animated technical drawings of flying animals in motion. I would love to paths the wings draw in 3D. Eleanor Lutz is a designer in Seattle who has a bachelor on molecular biology from the University of Washington. You can follow her on her site, Twitter,…
Today, the CDC confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S.: a man who was traveling in Liberia and is now at a hospital in Dallas. Should you panic about Ebola now? Nope, and here’s why. The bottom line is that Ebola spreads only through the direct contact with bodily fluids—making it a…
Microsoft debuted Windows 10 today and it has a solid Start Menu. Good job, Windows! But before getting Windows 10 on point, the Start Menu went through more than one reinvention. Some went better than others. Windows 95 This is where it all started. Looking at this I can pretty much hear the “OOOOEEHHHAAAU UUHHHGGGHHEEUURHHH”…
