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What Exactly Is In Those Stupid Expensive Printer Ink Cartridges?

What’s inside an ink cartridge? The short answer is a lot of (expensive!) water, 95 percent in fact. But mixed in is a fascinatingly complex soup of other chemicals that control the ink’s properties down to the micro-drop. Of course, knowing all that doesn’t make shelling out for a new one any less painful. [Wired]

Tech News Eric Limer

Experience drowning without the hassle of dying

Despite my fear of drowning, I really enjoyed this shocking interactive video (game?). It’s a perfect day until, all of a sudden, you’ll find yourself drowning in the middle of the ocean. You will have to scroll up like mad in order to keep your head out of the water. Exhausting, huh? Shot in an…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

America’s Tactical Nukes Are Worth Twice Their Weight in Gold

The GBU-57A-B is by far America’s biggest bunker buster, but it’s not actually our most powerful one. That acclaim goes to the deep diving, hard hitting, supersonic B-61 tactical nuclear bomb. And we’re about to spend more than $11 billion to ensure they stay on the front lines through the middle of the next decade.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Trailer truck dwarfed by its massive mining truck cargo

Cool image of a regular truck transporting one of those massive mining truck. It makes the trailer look so ridiculously small, like a toy. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Drones Could Help Reduce Poaching in Kenya by 96 Percent

Drones will soon fill the skies above Kenya’s 52 national parks and reserves, after a successful pilot program showed that they’re effective at stopping poachers. Very effective: In the pilot program, drones reduced poaching by a remarkable 96 percent. Of course, the drones have some help. “Use of drones has shown that we can prevent…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Massive floating flower installations

The floral artwork of Rebecca Louise Law is absolutely spectacular. When I get married for the fourth time—in pursue of Liz Taylor’s record—I want her to make a giant galaxy of flowers, floating above everyone’s heads. Or the Orion Nebula! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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Zumba Crater, Mars

The walls on the sides of Zumba Crater on Mars are so steep, it looks like an eyeball staring back at you from the digital terrain model. The ejecta forms a hill of red and brown around the perfectly circular blue crater floor. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS This digital terrain model (DTM) is constructed…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

All You Need to Track Driver Fatigue Is a Smarter Steering Wheel

To prevent drivers from falling asleep at the wheel and potentially causing deadly accidents, researchers have developed everything from smartphone apps, to intelligent bracelets, to even facial tracking dashcams. But scientists at Washington State University have come up with a much cheaper method that simply monitors the movements of a car’s steering wheel. The additional…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google Now Is Hilariously Vulgar When It Explains an “Upper Decker”

Need to know what an upper decker is? Google Now has you covered. In fantastic detail. Who knows exactly how Steve Boutilier discovered this particularly weird and casual definition—Google Now’s definition of “blumpkin” for instance (which it will also read to you) is a more formally-worded entry from Wiktionary. One thing is for sure though:…

Tech News Eric Limer

Giant Robot Sound Effect Slippers Make Your Cyborg Fantasies Come True

At one point or another, who hasn’t fantasized about having a limb replaced with a cyborg alternative, or some kind of robotic upgrade? Sadly, that technology still kind of sucks, so it’s up to your imagination to make that dream come true—that and ThinkGeek’s new sound effect robot slippers. Thirty bucks gets you a one-size-fits-all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee

If there are kids in your future, so is one of those mugs with a picture of your children on it. But wouldn’t it be great if that image could be updated as they grow up? That’s exactly what the Muki mug from Paulig promises, thanks to an e-Ink display powered by your piping hot…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Hidden Beauty of Unfinished Buildings

The field of architectural photography is often slick and staged, overproduced and unrealistic. But not the work of photographer Grant Mudford, who trains his lenses on the uncelebrated, forgotten details of architecture—like half-finished construction sites, still wearing scaffolding. Mudford is the recipient of the annual Excellence in Photography Award from the Julius Shulman Institute at…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Microsoft Now Officially Owns Nokia

Almost eight months after the original announcement, Microsoft has now completed its deal to purchase Nokia’s devices and services unit. Microsoft no longer dominates just software: from today, it’s a hardware specialist, too. In cold hard numbers, Microsoft is ponying up €3.79 billion for Nokia’s phone manufacturing wing, along with a further €1.65 billion to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Bitcoin Card Could Make Virtual Money Mainstream

Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo reckons it’s about to make Bitcoin use substantially easier, by teaming up with your more established form of banks to create a Mastercard-branded credit card that’ll let you blow your virtual money in actual shops. The problem seems to be that no one’s told Mastercard about this arrangement. Speaking to Gigaom,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

Report: Google Plans to Offer Wi-Fi in Its Fiber-Covered Cities

Google is planning to offer Wi-Fi networks in the cities where it supplies fiber internet, according to documents being circulated to the next 34 cities on Mountain View’s broadband hit list. Earlier this month, sources “who have discussed the matter with Google” told at The Information that the company had plans to become a wireless…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

YouTube’s Secret Algorithm That Chooses What You Should Watch

YouTube takes the business of tailoring your search results very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it has over 1 million lines of code in place to pair up the videos on its servers to you and your preferences. This video interview with Christos Goodrow from YouTube talks around—without describing in precise detail—YouTube’s search algorithms.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Comcast Claims Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Video Streams

If your Netflix streams have stuttered in the past, you’ve likely blamed your ISP—but now, Comcast claims that Netflix has slowed down its own video streams. In a blog post, a Comcast’s Jennifer Khoury writes that Netflix knowingly sabotaged its own streams prior to inking a deal with Comcast earlier this year. She says: As…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Is What Happens When You Trawl Through Your Old Files

Embarrassing old music libraries, unwatched movies, photographs from prom night, a copy of your Windows 98 desktop, maybe some obscure work documents you no longer understand. This is what happens when you trawl through your archived files. Today’s XKCD, in full below, surely resonates with all of us. But, and I can tell you this…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Dark Skies in Texas

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including their Dark Sky park. Big Bend National Park in the southwest of Texas stretches over 300,000 square kilometers for your stargazing pleasure. The dry air and exceptionally flat landscape will allow you to peek at stars barely above the horizon. Big Bend National Park in Texas. Photography credit: Tyler Nordgren…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Kitefoils are the closest thing to the Back to the Future hoverboard

Everyone knows kitesurfing—which is pretty hard to master and can get pretty rough. Kitefoiling is something completely different. It’s easy and it gives you the sensation that you’re flying, smoothly floating at high speed inches above the sea. It’s like Marty McFly’s hoverboard—one that can only work over water. Kitefoil uses a board with an…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

What Exactly Is In Those Stupid Expensive Printer Ink Cartridges?

Experience drowning without the hassle of dying

America’s Tactical Nukes Are Worth Twice Their Weight in Gold

Trailer truck dwarfed by its massive mining truck cargo

Drones Could Help Reduce Poaching in Kenya by 96 Percent

Massive floating flower installations

Zumba Crater, Mars

All You Need to Track Driver Fatigue Is a Smarter Steering Wheel

Google Now Is Hilariously Vulgar When It Explains an “Upper Decker”

Giant Robot Sound Effect Slippers Make Your Cyborg Fantasies Come True

This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee

The Hidden Beauty of Unfinished Buildings

Microsoft Now Officially Owns Nokia

This Bitcoin Card Could Make Virtual Money Mainstream

Report: Google Plans to Offer Wi-Fi in Its Fiber-Covered Cities

YouTube’s Secret Algorithm That Chooses What You Should Watch

Comcast Claims Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Video Streams

This Is What Happens When You Trawl Through Your Old Files

Dark Skies in Texas

Kitefoils are the closest thing to the Back to the Future hoverboard

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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