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When it comes to fancy designer desks, apparently storage space and drawers are completely passé. After all, do you really need a place to stash a stapler when your work surface appears to magically float over a pair of cities full of towering skyscraper? No, you don’t. That being said, it might be hard to…
Who looks at a fork and says “Oooh, this could be a little more sonic!”? Someone at the BBC, unfortunately. Header Image Credit: The Doctor Who Site This new range of Doctor Who kitchenware is coming from Underground Toys this November. $30 of your hard-earned dollars could go towards this set containing a fork, knife…
We all know we should recycle our electronics, but we don’t really know what happens after we drop them off at the e-waste center. So filmmaker Alex Gorosh followed his old iPhones, all the way to Agbogbloshie, Ghana, the largest electronics dump in the world. It’s a place so dirty and dangerous it’s nicknamed “Sodom…
Applehas acknowledged that a security breach of user accountsresulted in a number of celebrity nude photos being leaked. But! The company denies that it had anything to do with iCloud. That’s good news for you, and troubling to hear if you’re a celeb with undiscovered nudes floating around. Apple’s statement, reproduced in full below, says…
The long range rifle has been around since the 19th century, a short 100 years after Daniel Bernoulli published his book, Hydrodynamica, on the relationship between pressure and potential energy (or speed) of a fluid. The jist of his principle relates an increase in speed of a fluid to a decrease in pressure. Using this…
If you’ve been conscious at any point during the past 48 hours, you’ve probably heard about the slew of raunchy celeb selfies making their way around the internet. It didn’t have to be that way; despite all appearances, you can keep your naked body off the internet. Here’s how. 1. Don’t take photos of your…
It turns out the term ‘pudding’ has different meanings all over the world. In North America it’s usually a creamy dessert treat, in the UK it’s a soggy bread mess, and in Japan it’s a pre-scrambled boiled egg that’s drizzled with caramel sauce. And now the Japanese version is a lot easier to make with…
For Labor Day, we asked you to photograph trains in honor of the railroad strikers who earned us the holiday. Lucky for us, you all went to work. Winner: Lone Soldier Taken with a Canon SX50 in Georgetown, Colorado. – Abby Matousek Sunset Here is my photo for the Labor day photo contest taken Sunday…
If you just bought a new screwdriver, check your Visa card for strange charges. Several banks are reporting that Home Depot has experienced a credit card breach that may rival or exceed last fall’s Target fiasco. “I can confirm we are looking into some unusual activity and we are working with our banking partners and…
Talk about an ethereal subject. Pure smoke is about as intangible and unpredictable as anything you could think of putting in front of your camera. These beautifully frozen images were the result of literally thousands of attempts by photographer Thomas Herbrich. Herbrich set up a high speed flash and fired his shots at a shutter…
Tens of thousands of photons go into making up each pixel in your standard cat photo. That’s because existing cameras—even infrared night-vision ones—rely on many, many photons of light to create an image. But now physicists have photographed in almost pitch blackness, where there on average is less than one photon of light per pixel.…
I don’t know if Jeff Bridges shares the same love for the White Russian as The Dude does. But the guys at the Mexican liquor brand Kahlúa—one of the main ingredients of the cocktail—seem to think so because they just produced this twisted-ending short film starring Jeff Bridges—or maybe The Dude, who knows. SPLOID is…
United Airlines might soon want to rethink its Fly the Friendly Skies slogan as the battle for legroom and personal space aboard planes has recently turned very ugly. But who needs knee-defending contraptions or even reclining seats when all you really need to endure a long stressful flight is a relaxing foot massage courtesy of…
You need to buy laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, and paper towels anyway, so you might as well get a $10 Target Gift Card with your purchase. Just choose three eligible household items to get the deal. Dozens of items are available, so you should be able to find your favorites. [Buy Three Household Essentials, Get…
August is over, and we’re slowly entering the non-stop release season of big games – at long last! We’re not quite there yet though, so if why don’t we enumerate our backlogs or fear for our future wallets in the months to come in this simlish-free edition of Tuesday Game Room! Editors Note: Hey Toybox…
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this wonderful picture of what he describes as “My favorite views from space—just past sunrise over the ocean.” Gorgeous. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The commercial drone industry has a new best friend, and that friend is powerful and loaded. It’s Google, which recently unveiled to The Atlantic its secret drone delivery program, Project Wing, meaning another tech titan now has skin in the commercial UAV game. One that might just have enough clout to make delivery drones happen.…
The Corona program was the opening salvo in the effort to peer into Soviet-controlled territory from orbit. In order to recover the top-secret physical photographs it took, Air Force pilots took to the sky for what amounted to a claw arcade game, played miles above the Earth. Here’s a rare look at it in action.…
A few months ago we told you about Movpak, a backpack that’s totally unremarkable except for the fold-out electric skateboard hidden inside. Last week, we got to test-ride a prototype ahead of the company’s Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for production. Finally, a backpack that carries you. MovPak looks to solve the “last mile” problem;…
Warning shots are a waste of ammunition and not a particularly effective deterrent. Instead, modern warfighters inform potentially lost civilians/potential suicide bombers that they’re in the soldier’s rifle sights by blasting them with laser light from barrel-mounted laser dazzlers like these. The U.S. military had a rough go manning vehicle checkpoints during the Iraq and…
