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Oh, high heels. You look so hot but hurt so much. Think a little interior padding will save your feet from a world of pain? Psssh. The Kinetic Traces collection by London College of Fashion grad Silvia Fado Moreno, however, are like Easy Spirits with an advanced engineering degree. Check out the hydraulics on these…
Can you blame the U.S. Geological Survey for having a bit of fun when when it mapped Disneyland? This 1965 topo map from the United States’ official mapping agency seems to treat the theme park’s Matterhorn—a 1/100 scale model of the Alpine peak—as a real mountain. The map labels the summit and gives its “elevation”…
Buildings: They are giant and they are unmoving (for the most part). But what if you could play with them as freely as a Lego set? That seems like the kind of fun Axel de Stampa had when creating this series of super-fun GIFs. Some of the most iconic buildings from around the world were…
Early rumors may have hinted that Apple had a fully integrated smart home up its sleeve. But after today’s WWDC, we know that’s not the case. And it’s unclear what developers are going to do with Apple’s HomeKit, a piecemeal tease that implies you’ll soon be able to control your smart toaster with your iPhone.…
Finding Nemo is a touching tale of the lengths a father will go to rescue his kidnapped son. But part of the reason Nemo ends up captured in the first place stems from Marlin’s over-protective nature, which only started because Nemo’s mother and his siblings were devoured before he hatched. Not having a mother to…
Today at WWDC, Apple announced a huge batch of products aimed straight at the heart existing companies and apps. Here are just a few of the things that are feeling a spinning beachball target on their backs. Dropbox iCloud has never been a hugely appealing cloud storage option, that’s at least partially because Dropbox and…
If your tastefully decorated apartment doesn’t quite reflect the rock star lifestyle you’ve always fantasized about, here’s an easy way to add a little bit of rock and roll to your abode. What looks like a wall covered in stacks of loudspeakers and amplifiers is actually just a clever wallpaper design that brings no risk…
Today’s keynote marked day one of Apple’s giant developer love fest, and while we didn’t actually get any new hardware, Tim Cook and co. tossed a whole mess of long-awaited goodies to their legion of loyal followers. So in case you didn’t happen to spend the afternoon glued to your screen, these are the best…
You could (and probably should) wait for the wide release this fall before downloading iOS 8. But if you absolutely can’t wait, here’s how to get Apple’s brand new iOS 8 beta on your phone right now. Before you do anything, backup your device. It’s a good idea anyway before updating, and considering how temperamental…
If drawing on the walls at home is a no-no, drawing on the walls at a museum is a massive don’t-even-think-about-it. Or it was, until the playful design duo behind Matheny Studio teamed up with Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria to create a new on-site space where kids can strap on crayon studded helmets, shoes,…
In a freakish and honestly terrifying turn of events, a giant cloud of sand enveloped Tehran today. The temperature plunged from over 90 F to the 60s in minutes. Winds whipped at 70 mile per hour. Trees fell. The power went out. Tehran looked like an apocalyptic horror show. Although this sandstorm was especially severe,…
Today at WWDC, Apple gave OS X a design overhaul that’s just as huge as its namesake. Yosemite is bright, sharp, and flat as hell. But while OS X now looks more like iOS, iOS and OS X are also more alike than ever. Apple is finally—finally—establishing a consistent design language across its platforms. OS…
Nice one, nature. Could there have been a better spot for this whirling, swirling supercell to form into a wild in-air vortex than over Climax, Kansas? Photographer Stephen Locke captured the explosive event in a timelapse that shows just how impressive the great outdoors is, in all its grand, au naturel glory. Locke’s stellar storm…
At Monday’s WWDC keynote, Apple announced a flurry of fun new features. With OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, your Mac and iPhone are closer than ever, opening the door to the Future of Computing. Too bad iPhone 4 users won’t get to enjoy any of it—and neither will anyone with an even older phone.…
Love it or hate it, the concept of taking a picture of oneself and sharing it with the world is a phenomenon that refuses to die. But for the love of all things holy, can’t we find a better name than ‘selfie’? There is, arguably, nothing wrong with self-portraiture; after all, nobody slagged off Rembrandt…
As far as necessary tasks go, unclogging toilets is without question one of the most unpleasant. Which is why South Korea’s fully sealed, minimal-contact alternative is a stroke of genius. Warning: Before you hit play, know that that is an actual toilet clog. So feces-sensitive, you’ve been warned. The mechanics appear to be largely similar…
Don’t die on me might be one of the most repeated lines in movie history, that’s why the guys at Supercutonline decided to include it in their list of cliché phrases supercuts. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Ignacio Ferrando got into a roller coaster with six Go Pro cameras. The cameras filmed a 360-degree view as the roller coaster zoomed through twists and loops. Then he inverted the resulting panorama into an spherical projection that makes it look as if you are leaving Earth. Or ate some mushrooms. SPLOID is a new…
Workers sleeping 12 to a room without access to clean water. Young men dying from heart attacks due to the extreme heat. One man who has been trying to leave for five years, except his passport was taken by his boss, who has disappeared. It’s the latest and most heartbreaking news on the highly controversial…
Touch ID is now going to be a lot more usable—Apple announced that in iOS 8, it works alongside third-party apps. So for example, if you wanted to log into Mint or another finance app, you just use your fingerprint, rather than having to remember a password.
