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Otherworldly Photos of the World’s Largest Cave Make Humans Seem Puny

See that tiny speck in the bottom right corner? That’s a person—a very hard-to-see person, standing inside Vietnam’s enormous Son Doong cave, the largest in the world. Photographer Ryan Deboodt ventured inside to get these astounding shots. Amazingly, Son Doong cave was only discovered by locals in 1991. British scientists surveyed the 5.5-mile-long cave in…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Scientists create winged-jellyfish drone…and it’s beautiful

Researchers from New York University recently unveiled a drone that “mimics the movements of swimming jellyfish.” Designed by Leif Ristroph, an applied mathematician at NYU, the drone was presented at a fluid dynamics conference in Pittsburgh. It’s tiny and adorable and I want one. Ristroph wanted to design a drone based on insect wings. However,…

Sploid Tatiana Danger

Brilliant, Overdue App Forces Your Phone to Take Horizontal Videos

You can tell your friends and family they should be shooting videos horizontally all you want, but that won’t stop them from capturing unwieldily vertical clips that are impossible to fullscreen on a computer. But there’s finally a solution to this problem. Simply hide their default camera app—bury it deep in a folder somewhere—and replace…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Two beautiful aerial photos of New York shrouded in fog this morning

From the sky, New York was cloud wonderland this morning. This was taken by Jennifer Gormley: This instagram is from amtraver (thanks for the heads up, Teresita.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Scientists discover plants that can learn and remember

New research from a team of scientists at the University of Western Australia will change the way you think about the difference between plants and animals. Mimosa pundica plants, they found, can learn and remember, despite not having a brain. Those active little fern-like things always did seem sort of smart, though, didn’t they? With…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes

These Awesome Olympic Souvenir Concepts Are Better Than the Real Thing

Souvenirs have a tendency to skew way, way kitschy, especially when they’re tied to major events like the Olympics. But these souvenirs—designed by a group of industrial design students—put a totally new spin on the traditional tat, and the results are pretty awesome. The designs were done by students at the Swiss design school ECAL…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The Best Her Parody Yet Has a Punchline Worth Waiting For

In the new Spike Jonze film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a dude who falls in love with an operating system. But what if it the gender roles were flip flopped? This parody from HitFix shows a situation that might be all too familiar. https://gizmodo.com/her-review-loneliness-never-looked-so-beautiful-or-fu-1485058395 There aren’t any spoilers here (in fact, I haven’t seen the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A Flash Drive Watch That Always Knows the Time and Available Storage

Even with wireless networks and cloud storage services like Dropbox, there’s still a place in this day and age for manually sharing files on a flash drive. And to ensure you’ve always got one on hand for an emergency file transfer, the silicone Verb watch features four gigs of storage built into a simple but…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Drone captures unique view of surfers riding the world’s biggest waves

Photographer Eric Sterman recently got his hands on a DJI Phantom quadcopter and a GoPro camera and flew them both above the Banzai pipeline in Oahu, Hawaii. The footage is nothing short of stunning. In fact, it’s downright otherworldly. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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A Cheap Folding Drone That’s Strong Enough To Carry a GoPro

They say the best quadcopter is the one you have with you (or is that cameras?) because not every opportunity to capture some glorious aerial footage is planned. So while you can spend thousands of dollars on a giant rig designed to hoist a heavy DSLR, why not save yourself some cash and opt for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Stunning photos of colossal lightning in massive volcano eruption

You don’t need to travel into a brown dwarf star’s atmosphere or Saturn’s hexagon to see colossal lightning. Just look at these photographs taken by Francisco Negroni of the eruption of the complex volcano Cordón Caulle, in Chile. He told me that, while scary, there was no immediate danger: The first photos, the one with…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

3D-Printed Music Boxes Let You Compose Your Own Tune

When shopping for a music box there’s usually a decent selection of lawsuit-free public domain songs to choose from. But a new online service called Music Drop finally lets anyone compose their own 16-note tune, which is 3D printed alongside these adorable custom hand-cranked music boxes. Composing your masterpiece is as simple as adding dots…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

13 Nail-Biting Images Of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Under Construction

In the battle royale between landmark San Francisco bridges, the Golden Gate will probably always get the glory. But after seventy years, its sister span to the east is coming into its own. The Bay Bridge: A Work in Progress is an upcoming exhibition at the city’s De Young Museum that chronicles the earliest days…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

14 Design Trends for 2014

Just as we did a year ago, I’m kicking off 2014 with a list of design trends I expect to gain ground over the next twelve months. The world of interactive design is an extreme fluid in terms of what’s determined as a staple of good design from year to year. It should go without…

Tech News Gannon Burgett - The Industry

Blackphone Promises To Be a Cellphone to Beat the NSA

Privacy is at the forefront of everybody’s mind, now more than ever. So Blackphone, which will run a “security-oriented” version of Android and claims to be able to foil the NSA, couldn’t be better timed. The brainchild of renowned cryptographer Phil Zimmermann—and in fact a commercial venture between his company Silent Circle and Geeksphone, a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Amazing 1956 Video Explains How Music Went From Concert Hall to Vinyl

Vinyl may have had its day—hell, some readers of this site may never have seen it in action—but for a small group of dedicated fans, it still lives on. This amazing 1956 video explains the process, which has actually changed very little over the last 50 years, of transforming performance into long-player. https://gizmodo.com/digital-music-sales-just-dropped-for-the-first-time-sin-1494135621 Created by…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Samsung May Start Making High-End Windows Phone Handsets Again

Samsung’s biggest mobile successes have been planted firmly in rich Android soil, but it looks as though the company hasn’t given up on Windows Phone yet. A high-end Windows Phone 8 handset from Sammy looks to be on the way, after a number of details hit the web. Shipping documents have pointed towards a high-end,…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Rumor: Facebook Could Launch a Flipboard-Like Reader This Month

Rumors have swirled for some time about the fact that Facebook might be developing a Flipboard-style news reader. Now, a report from re/code suggests that the social network might launch such a service, called Paper, this month. According to “sources familiar with the matter” that spoke to re/code, the service will be “similar to Flipboard”…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

The NSA Uses Radio Waves to Monitor 100,000 Computers Without Internet

We already know that the NSA intercepts computer deliveries to introduce backdoors into hardware, but now a story in the New York Times suggests that the Agency uses radio technology to spy on 100,000 computers that aren’t connected to the internet. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592 According to the article, the NSA has been using the technology, called Quantum,…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This pile of cash is actually just carved wood

We’re rich! You would scream if you stumbled upon these cash wads in a cardboard box but your calculations would be a little off. Not because you counted wrong but because there actually isn’t money in the box. What you think is a box of 100s is actually just an excellent wood carving. The money…

Sploid Casey Chan

Otherworldly Photos of the World’s Largest Cave Make Humans Seem Puny

Scientists create winged-jellyfish drone…and it’s beautiful

Brilliant, Overdue App Forces Your Phone to Take Horizontal Videos

Two beautiful aerial photos of New York shrouded in fog this morning

Scientists discover plants that can learn and remember

These Awesome Olympic Souvenir Concepts Are Better Than the Real Thing

The Best Her Parody Yet Has a Punchline Worth Waiting For

A Flash Drive Watch That Always Knows the Time and Available Storage

Drone captures unique view of surfers riding the world’s biggest waves

A Cheap Folding Drone That’s Strong Enough To Carry a GoPro

Stunning photos of colossal lightning in massive volcano eruption

3D-Printed Music Boxes Let You Compose Your Own Tune

13 Nail-Biting Images Of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Under Construction

14 Design Trends for 2014

Blackphone Promises To Be a Cellphone to Beat the NSA

Amazing 1956 Video Explains How Music Went From Concert Hall to Vinyl

Samsung May Start Making High-End Windows Phone Handsets Again

Rumor: Facebook Could Launch a Flipboard-Like Reader This Month

The NSA Uses Radio Waves to Monitor 100,000 Computers Without Internet

This pile of cash is actually just carved wood

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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