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GL II I I I I TCH. Sometimes a glitch is a catastrophe, yes, but sometimes these mistakes are beautiful. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you explored the photographic celebrations of the glitch. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-glitch-art-1605738665 The Sky Is Broken This Morning I’m not sure which is worse — waking up one morning and discovering that sky…
You’ve got your remote cabins in the woods; your freaky laboratories; your Saw-like cellars; but the best setting for a horror movie just might be a 130-year-old paper manufacturing plant in London. This short vid shows a shadowed, moody take on how G. F. Smith produces sheets in a single hue in its Colorplan line.…
In the robot world, vacuums don’t rank very high on the intelligence scale. They’re usually programmed to aimlessly wander around and clean until they run out of power, and hopefully by that point they’ve randomly hit every inch of your floors. With the Scout RX1, Miele takes a better approach by using a camera pointed…
The Ultimate Ears MINI BOOM offers shockingly robust sound in a tiny, tastefully-designed package. This model took home the Wirecutter’s pick for best portable speaker, and Amazon is currently selling it for the lowest price they’ve ever offered. [Ultimate Ears Mini Boom, $79] The LG G3 is the new king of the Android hill ,…
Cool selfie of an Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighter pilot looking all badass and futuristic, like snapshot from some future Halo game cutscene. I wish I had the high resolution to print this out on a large fine metal paper. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
In the 1980s, as giant technology companies competed to create electronics that arrived in the most compact, grey boxes possible, a young designer named Daniel Weil was doing the exact opposite: Eviscerating the electronic guts of gadgets, from radios to clocks, exposing them to the consumer the most elegant way imaginable. And 35 years later,…
You would think that chocolate is universal. Something that is everywhere, that everyone can enjoy. It’s not. There are people who have never tried it, even the farmers who break their backs to harvest cocoa beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast. Watch their faces light up when they eat it for the…
Every once in a while form meets function in such a wonderful way that an architectural pun is born. It’s hard to find a better example than the Blood Center in Raciborz, Poland. Let’s just say they don’t have to worry about a spill staining the carpet. This blood-colored building is home to a whole…
Until scientists deliver zero-gravity fruit bowls, this clever creation from Scaleno is going to have to be our next best thing for keeping fruit from getting bruised. The Wassily bowl uses a web of stretchy silicone elastics to suspend fruit so it doesn’t get all banged up every time you search for a snack. The…
Just because the Spruce Goose never took off doesn’t mean that aquatic planes in general are wholly useless; these aquatic turbo-props are still used for a variety of humanitarian efforts throughout the world. Now, China has announced that it’s currently developing the world’s biggest functional sea plane. But will it ever get off the ground?…
A cool photo of a crash crane lifting a damaged Harrier jet off the deck of the US Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. The crash and salvage team regularly practice this kind of operations in case of an airplane crash. That crane is surprisingly huge—just look at the guy in the cabin and the…
Starting this week, to check Facebook messages on your phone, you’ll need to download Messenger, the company’s standalone chat app. This is part of a bigger Facebook strategy to create many standalone mobile apps. That might make sense for Facebook, but it sucks for you. That specific change isn’t all bad. Messenger is easier to…
If humanity hopes to realize its dreams of exploring the stars, we’re going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship. Simply stockpiling enough vital supplies isn’t going to cut it, which is what led Julian Melchiorri, a student at the Royal College of Art, to create an artificial biological…
Stories of how technology is bad for our health are par for the course, but smartphones—and the apps on them—can be used to make significantly positive changes as well. One of the areas where you’ll find a cornucopia of brilliant apps is in the field of sleep. Here’s a small selection of apps that might…
Remember equalizers? You know, the little dials that used to keep your tiny boombox speakers from tweaking out at high volume but have sort of disappeared in the world of digital music. Well, they’re making a comeback in the latest update to Spotify’s iOS app, and I’m unduly excited about it. Update your Spotify app…
The team behind the slick service that lets you stream torrents like they’re Netflix movies keeps churning out updates. Popcorn Time recently got Chromecast support. Now it’s coming to an Apple TV near you, thanks to AirPlay support. As you might recall, the original (and questionably legal) Popcorn Time open source project killed itself earlier…
The Bike Design Project is a huge effort to push urban cycling into the future: Five teams across five cities designed what they believe to be the best urban bike for their respective home towns. So what does a bike designed specifically for San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and other major American cities look like?…
Martin Scorsese already wanted to become a movie director at the age of 11. He even planned to do an epic roman film called The Eternal City starring Marlon Brando, Virginia Mayo, Alec Guinness and Richard Burton. This is the storyboard he did for the movie. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Over on imgur a user with the alias ‘hababird‘—aka Nathan Pryor—has posted a gallery of images showing the step-by-step process he went through to create a gigantic eight-foot wide wooden Spirograph set that uses chunky pieces of chalk to create intricate artwork on streets and sidewalks. Normally you can’t wait to take a hose to…
Over the next few days, if you go to send a message through Facebook’s smartphone app, you’ll see the alert shown above. Starting this week, Facebook is fully unbundling its messaging service, as part of its move to become a network of related apps. Facebook started bouncing messages to the standalone app for some European…
