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With Polaroid out of the picture, Fujifilm has been making moves in recent years to own instant photography—what’s left of it anyway—with its Instax line of cameras, printers, and film. Today, it makes a play at a niche of the instant market with a larger format camera that pops out wide photos. The Instax Wide…
How do you upgrade a camera that everyone already loves when you don’t really have much new technology to stuff inside? With Fujifilm’s x100t, the latest iteration of the classic-styled fixed-lens shooter, the answer is to buff out some minor flaws, add maybe a feature or two, and of course, a whole new letter: “t.”…
Apple just made its new iCloud pricing plans official. Here’s what extra storage in Apple’s walled garden is going to cost you. 5 GB: Free 20 GB: $1 each month 200 GB: $4 each month 500 GB: $10 each month 1 TB: $20 each month. These prices are way cheaper than Apple’s previous pricing structure.…
Yikes. Here’s an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman’s body until it’s unrecognizable. It’s terrifying, to be honest. And it’s something you see a lot in celebrity culture where beautiful bodies are turned into monsters in the quest for perfection. NSFW. The video, called Supervenus by Frederic Doazan,…
Everyone has their own reasons for loving Robin Williams, he taught some people how to laugh, his movies defined many a childhood, he was a great guy and so on and so on. Plus, he was a fantastic actor. Tony from Every Frame a Painting explains just how great by focusing on one tiny thing:…
A suspiciously well-timed announcement from Sprint could help put those big, beautiful new iPhone 6s in more pockets: Their “iPhone for Life” plan will upgrade your phone every two years, plus give you unlimited data, starting at $70 per month. And I assume this deal is valid until you no longer have a need for…
The mysteries of Stonehenge are revealed sometimes by unusual methods—forgetting to water its grass or whacking its stones with quartz. In this case, it just took four years of staring at the ground. A new underground survey reveals a vast complex of unknown Neolithic monuments near Stonehenge, including a huge stone “super henge.” The Stonehenge…
A long exposure photo by masterful Swedish astrophotographer Göran Strand is featured once again on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: Double aurora ovals—green and violet—over the town of Östersund, Sweden, with the Milky Way covering the entire sky. What an awesome world we live in. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
When you find yourself in times of trouble, always remember: Don’t cross the streams. Egon’s ghostbusting words of wisdom still hold true today. Joey Shanks at PBS Digital Studios knows that. But he’s risked total protonic reversal to show us how to recreate the glowing effects of everyone’s favorite Slimer-busting backpacks using simple light painting…
I really thought Godzilla was going to be cool. I mean the the teaser had that sick HALO jump scene and the cast had a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston with an always watchable Ken Watanabe and oh yeah, GODZILLA! There was no way they were going to screw it up like they did in 1998.…
Its animators describe Mortal Breakup Inferno as “an angry girlfriend’s infernal hunt of the man who broke her heart.” I find it hilarious because it reminds me of some real cases that may or may have not involved men or women turning into fire-breathing monsters—although none had a final twist like this. The short film…
The fun in live looping is all about hearing how a song is made—how a series of bloops and beats and basses get layered into actual music. It’s just one person and some foot pedals. And in her video for “Anthem,” Kawehi invites us to watch how a song is put together. Kawehi, who first…
A portable charger can bring your dead smartphone back to life if you forget to plug it in overnight, but what if you forget to charge the charger too? That’s not an issue with the tiny Oivo since it splits in half to accommodate four readily-available AA batteries that have enough charge to completely bring…
Beds can be dismantled, legs can come off dining tables, and shelves can be emptied, but that large sofa in your living room? That’s not getting any smaller or lighter for moving day. And all it takes is one time moving a nightmarishly heavy sofa bed yourself to long for Lucie Koldova’s alternative made from…
According toa report from the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in talks to buy Mojang—the studio behind the absolutely banana’s huge mega super duper blockbuster hit Minecraft—for $2 billion. Microsoft already locked Minecraft down for a (timed) Xbox exclusive, but the deal has run out and the Minecraft gold has been leaking onto other platforms.…
They seem like a smart idea, but how many people do you really know with a safe room in their house? Probably none, because they’re expensive, and that includes those living in areas where storms can generate deadly tornados. So a Missouri-based inventor has come up with a cheaper way to stay safe during a…
You know you want one, but you don’t know what adopting a dog will entail. How much time does it take? How much will it cost? Do you really have to touch all that poop? Here’s everything you need to know. This article is inspired by my buddies Frank Muniz and Matt Lottman. They took…
America’s isn’t the only military to rely on heavy-lift transport vessels, the unusual class of utility ship that helped ferry the crippled USS Cole home for repairs. Russia has just released a series of photos documenting the slow return trip to the Zvezdochka shipyard for a pair of its Akula II-class submarines, the Bratsk and…
The Mac had the mouse. The iPod had the clickwheel. And the iPhone had the touchscreen. So what does the Apple Watch have? Something called the “digital crown,” a tiny knob replacing the conventional crown on traditional watches, and a “Taptic engine” that helps it communicate. They didn’t get the most play in today’s big,…
Sure, it has had lots of problems. Yes, it is expensive as hell. But you can’t deny that the F-35 is one handsome bastard. It still feels from the future in these pictures that Lockheed Martin just sent me. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
