Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
3D TVs may have gone the way of the Dodo, but as the Oculus Rift has proven, a third dimension can make video games far more immersive. That even goes for the 2D Nintendo classics you grew up playing, thanks to a new emulator with a intelligent algorithm that automatically converts those games to 3D.…
Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober cleverly built what is probably the easiest to understand scale model of our solar system. What’s even more interesting is that he included Planet Nine too in the scale model just to show how damn…
Ren And Stimpy was a one-of-a-kind cartoon whose grotesque insanity made it a hit with kids and a source of outrage for parents. But as the Nerdwriter points out, that insanity was both incredibly calculated and a milestone in a legacy of edgy animation. John Kricfalusi, the show’s creator, originally apprenticed under Ralph Bakshi who…
It’s 2016, and Tech Decks are still going strong. The folks at Kuma Films gathered eight talented fingerboarders from around Taiwan and sat them in front of a huge rotating dinner table, which they converted into a miniature skate park. Watch them grind tiny concrete barriers, varial over little handrails, and generally pull off all…
Using a Facebook News Feed of sorts, Ithaca Audio breaks down the history of rock and roll in 15 minutes using 384 rock stars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, and 44 drummers in one crazy and totally awesome mashed up song. The Facebook timeline bit is cute but what’s really cool is how the songs blend…
Obviously, you can’t actually fly underwater because people can’t fly (and it wouldn’t even be called flying since you’re underwater) but using this subwing attached to a boat, you can completely submerge yourself underwater and make it feel like you’re gliding through the air (but really cutting through the ocean). God, it must be so…
If only this never ending swirl of beautiful landscapes actually existed on one bike trail. It would be the best ride you could ever get on a bike. Cleverly enough though, this short film called DreamRide by Juicy Studios shows Mike Hopkins riding through Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington and it makes it look…
It’s hard to truly grasp the size of famous science fiction megastructures like the Death Star or the Halo ring and basically impossible to understand how big the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise is because they all exist in different universes, which sadly isn’t the same one we exist in. If only we could look…
It’s like the F/A-18E Super Hornet is splitting the horizon as it flies through the line between ocean and sky. It’s actually just zipping through a flyby during an aerial change of command ceremony above the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier. Either way, it’s such a perfect picture of a giant mothership and aircraft.
Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a fun…
Hydra are small, tentacled beasties that spends their time floating around freshwater, stinging and eating small shrimp. To eat, a hydra has to rip open its own skin. This behavior is well known, but it hadn’t been captured on video—until now. As described in a new paper in Biophysical Journal, scientists from the University of…
Need somewhere to escape to this year? Easy. Just pick a US National Park, any US National Park. From canyons to glaciers to valleys to lakes and everything in between, this here country has so many different textures that it’s a neat reminder in how different this here planet can be.
Using her enviable baking skills, Yolanda of How To Cake It turned batter, fondant, and icing into a mouth-watering sushi dinner, complete with pickled ginger and wasabi paste. At the heart of the futomaki are chunks of a jelly roll, while the nigiri are plain old vanilla cake filled with a ginger buttercream. Making cakes…
San Francisco’s Kit Tea is the city’s first cat cafe, where patrons can hang out with (and adopt) the 10 to 15 felines milling around inside. A regular hour-long visit usually runs about $20, but now you can spend twice that time inside for free, thanks to this 360-degree video made by Everything is Film.…
There are a few things that everyone should know how to do in a kitchen—cook rice, cook pasta, chop an onion, etc—and preferably, you’d like to know how to do them well so you don’t burn the rice, ruin the pasta, and cry while dicing an onion. Gordon Ramsay shows us how to master simple…
Hmm. Could stock footage basically do the same thing as famous film directors getting paid millions to make a movie? Sort of! (of course not, well, depending on the director and depending on the shot) Here’s a video from VideoBlocks that compares stock footage versus scenes from famous movies like Top Gun and Drive and…
Molten salt is, as its name suggests, salt in liquid form. It doesn’t get there until between 500 and 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the worst things you can drop into a glass vessel full of cold water. It’s not just great at making fish tanks explode though: molten salt can transfer heat,…
Tadashi Mori is a prolific origami artist who’s previously folded replica aircraft and terrifying dragons, but now he’s turned his talents to the Dark Side. His take on Darth Vader includes the Sith lord’s signature cape and helmet, but be warned, it’s not for origami Padawans. For starters, the expert takes at least 45 minutes…
Octopuses, undoubtedly the best creature lurking in the ocean, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors but this one might be gnarliest of them all: it’s a ghost. Or at least it looks like it. Recently spotted in the deep sea 2.6 miles down in the ocean, the octopus could very well…
The internet would be a far less awesome place to waste valuable hours at work were it not for the The Slow Mo Guys turning the mundane into the amazing with their high-speed camera. By itself a clump of burning steel wool is only mildly interesting, but at 1,000 frames per second, it’s better than…
