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The Red Bull Harescramble Erzbergrodeo might be the toughest enduro competition on the planet. Five hundred bikers compete in this crazy race that takes place in an old Austrian iron mine. This year’s winner, Johnny Walker, attached a camera on his helmet to share his adrenaline-charged ride. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3—set to double the resolution of Google Maps as the first public high-res imaging satellite in space—launched earlier this month. Now, here are the first images to be beamed back to Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-super-imaging-satellite-that-will-double-google-map-1621023970 The satellite has been snapping images of Madrid, and now DigitalGlobe has released them for us to take a look at.…
Whether they’re sneaking between cells or turning cockroaches into living 8-bit computers, nanobots are insanely fascinating. Now, they’re about to become an army of impossibly small weaponized robots, swarm into the human body, hunt down malignant tumors and destroy them once and for all. New research from the University of California’s Davis Cancer Center published…
Cooling modern-day computers is hard work: fans, heat sinks and even pumped liquid struggle to keep the temperatures of our hardware down. But how might we cool tomorrow’s computers—those powered using the strange and exotic power of quantum physics? Fortunately, as well as trying to make quantum computing itself actually happen, there are researchers forward-thinking…
There are few cities in the world as beautiful and full of beautiful people as Stockholm. This time-lapse video by Enrique Pacheco shows it in all its splendor. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities and remarkable locations all over the world. If you are a photographer…
Matt Roach thought it would be a great idea to mount a camera inside a girandola—a spinning fireworks wheel—launched at the 2014 Pyrotechnics Guild International Convention in Mason City, Iowa, and sent us the video. And a great idea it is, indeed. The action starts at 2:31: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
If you feel like your table tennis set-up needs a little more… oomph, then look no further than Stiga’s new Studio table: a regulation playing surface that happens to pack a 2,800 watt sound system. Beer pong will never be the same again. Lurking beneath the table’s stealth-black surface are eight 6 x 9 speakers,…
Pandora has released an app for Google Glass that will let you control your music with voice commands and touch gestures. You can also access your radio stations and create new stations using voice. [Pandora Blog]
If you’ve ever wondered what the average Instagram picture looks like, then wonder no longer. The web app Metagramme lets you create an average image based on the last 32 pictures you uploaded to Instagram. When you head over to Metagramme it grabs the 32 most recent images from your account and creates an average…
Hackers broke into the computer networks of at least five U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase and siphoned off gigabytes of data, which included checking and savings account information of millions of customers, the New York Times reports. Security experts are describing the attack as “extremely sophisticated”. The intrusions were first reported by Bloomberg, which said…
The original BioShock aka the best game ever has finally landed in the iOS App Store for $14.99. Get it, get it, get it!
The cesspool that is the Windows Store available in Windows 8 is finally getting a clean up. Microsoft is getting rid of 1,500 fake apps from the Store and will refund your money if you fell for a scam. In a blog post titled “How we’re addressing misleading apps in Windows Store”, Microsoft’s Todd Brix…
Olympus interchangeable-lens cameras are some of the best out there, and that doesn’t change with the new Pen E-PL7. As with the E-PL5, you get amazing imaging tech crammed inside a very small body. What’s surprising is that the redesigned selfie-friendly LCD screen—usually an eye-roller feature—is so well-conceived that it’s the distinguishing new feature of…
We know that hundreds of millions of years ago that fish left the water and eventually evolved into land animals. But what if we could see it happen right now? We sort of can. Scientists are raising fish to survive outside of water and to walk on land and they’re changing right before our eyes.…
Gavin Heffernan sent us a compilation of his time-lapse city traffic videos, all of which except one are shot in the City of Angels. A nice way to shut down for the day. Go have a cocktail, Angelenos. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities and remarkable…
Yes, the rumors are true: Samsung just announced a smartwatch with a data connection. The Samsung Gear S can make phone calls. Because why the hell not? https://gizmodo.com/report-samsung-is-still-working-on-a-smartwatch-that-i-1580640910 The Tizen powered device offers a Dual core 1.0 GHz processor, a 2.0-inch 360 x 480 Super AMOLED display, 512MB RAM, 4GB onboard storage, a (measly) 300mAh…
Aw look, it’s a rainbow. Maybe that means the rain is going to stop. Maybe that means the dark clouds are going away. Maybe it means we should go outdoors soon… NOPE. Maybe not. As these people were filming a rainbow, Mother Nature decided to blast out a lightning bolt right in their face. Sometimes…
Motorola’s 360 was the first beautiful round Android Wear, but it’s certainly not the last. LG is bringing one to the table as well, the LG G Watch R. Not to be outdone, LG’s second Android Wear outing has a few fancy special features of its own: No “flat tire” on its screen and a…
Apparently there’s a crazy dude going around in Japan in full Batman uniform driving a batcycle. And that’s perfectly fine by me, quite honestly. Go Batman go! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
In the relatively brief but inexplicably deep-pocketed history of internet-enabled crowdfunding, people have proven their insatiable thirst for investing in stuff that may—or may not—ever make it to reality. Some of these proposals are very cool; some are very stupid. And some get a whole hell of a lot of money. “The Coolest” belongs to…
