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This flying bathtub is not only a real NASA prototype, but is also a television star. A test flight went awry in 1967, crashing into the desert floor. The pilot survived, and the footage from the crash made it into the opening credits for The Six Million Dollar Man. M2-F1 being towed by a C-47.…
Problem: Too many chickens don’t have room to roam around and be happy. Solution: Strap virtual reality headsets onto said chickens so they think they’re free-range. No seriously, an assistant professor at Iowa State University seems to think this is a good idea, but he has to be kidding. Right? RIGHT?! Austin Stewart recently launched…
It’s far from being the first Star Wars-branded nutcracker to come from Lucasfilm and Disney’s marketing machine. But there’s a good chance that even casual Star Wars fans won’t mind having this screw-type nut destroyer sitting somewhere in this kitchen. Supposedly made from Quadanium steel—which is a fictitious alloy that only exists in the Star…
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This year, our beloved world wide web turned a hearty 25 years old—and yet, it feels like just yesterday we were browsing Prodigy and burning AOL trial discs for fuel. Considering how far we’ve come, we can’t even begin to imagine what the next 25 years might hold. Thankfully, our friends over at Funny or…
This is the latest dance video from Nobuyuki Hanabusa’s Enra collective and you can’t help but appreciate how much talent is on show here—digital and physical. Hanabusa’s choreography and video experimentation combines live projection with talented performers who practice synchronisation until they get it spot on. Hanabusa is the founder of the Enra experimental dance…
Residents of Juneau, Alaska were caught between checking the weather and voyeurism on Tuesday morning. The weather forecast took an intimate turn, lingering over each available weather model before taking a foray into bittersweet regrets over the weather model picked after a too-brief encounter. The forecast sets the intimate tone for the evening right away,…
Bike locks, while incredibly necessary, are way behind the times. Even the best of them will break under brute force, and then where are you? Bikeless and alone. The new Skylock, from ex-Boeing and Jawbone engineers, is about to leapfrog the competition and bring bike protection into the 21st century. It looks amazing. Skylock looks…
On the modern high seas, raising your submarine’s periscope at the wrong time is just as bad as raising a flag with a target on it. But thanks to a new optical suite developed by Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology, tomorrow’s subs will only ever have to break waves when in port. The prototype technology,…
No matter how many times I see big cats hunting and catching prey in Africa, I’m always impressed by their perfection. Check out this video of a lioness jumping off a small cliff to catch an antelope in mid-air. Note: GIF footage has been stabilized. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
The FCC voted in favor of widely criticized (read: loathed) net neutrality rules that will allow fast lanes. Now, the floor is open for public comment before the commission formally adopts the rules later this year. But you might as well start the conversation here. It should be made very clear that the proposed net…
With protestors crowing from the sidewalks outside, the FCC met to discuss the proposed net neutrality rules on Thursday. Mignon Clyburn was the first commissioner to speak and kicked things off with a story about how she knew something wasn’t right about the proposed rules. She knew, because her elderly mother called her and told…
Foursquare’s new check-in app, Swarm, is rolling out for iPhone and Android. When it’s live those links will work. Let us know what you think.
Romanian concept designer Alex Ichim is one of the long list of artists that make me jealous of the people who will be born five thousand years from now. I just want to get into a hangar and see one of the massive beasts he designs in real life. Of course, maybe nobody will be…
My sister and I have created TheNightLight.com, a guide to the best stuff for your baby and you. We’ve just deployed our main site, and I’d appreciate it if you’d come bang on it and tell me what you think. Our method is simple: use every resource at our disposal to find the very best…
Pinterest is a great place to plan for a fun birthday, a zesty cocktail party, a beautiful wedding, or… the apocalypse. No seriously, there’s a whole subculture of so-called “Preppers” who maintain pinboards devoted to getting ready for the end of the world. It’s more cheerful than it sounds. The Atlantic’s Colette Shade just published…
Warner, Universal and Sony have all bought stakes in Shazam, according to the WSJ. Reckon it’ll identify songs on those labels preferentially?
Decades ago McDonald’s realized that food wasn’t the only way to draw kids into its restaurants. Toys, playgrounds, and cartoon characters all help the cause, and now a Brazilian food chain called Giraffas has come up with a clever way to lure soccer fans into its restaurants, just in time for the 2014 FIFA World…
You’re looking at the results of red tide bioluminescence, a phenomenon produced by single celled microorganisms known as phytoplankton. When washed up by the surf, beaches can look like they are from another world. This neat video shows how they react to touch. Red tide can sometimes get so dense that they eat up too…
The simple act of donating blood could actually help save someone’s life one day. And to help drive that point home, ad agencies Publicis Sao Paulo and Fundação Pró-Sangue in Brazil created a poster with a built-in charging cable that also helps save a dying smartphone. The blood-red charging cable cleverly looks like it’s actually…
