Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Thankfully, it’s okay to laugh a little at this scary footage of a man bouncing around inside his car while a SUV rear ends him into an oncoming semi truck. That’s because Daryl Peterson, the driver in the car, managed to walk away from the crash without a scratch or any injury at all. Thank…
Wow, just wow. It’s breathtaking (literally, if you try to hold your breath like the free diver in this video) to watch free diver Guillaume Néry just fall into a dark abyss in the ocean. It’s like he’s getting sucked in and will never resurface because he’s exploring unknown worlds hidden underneath our planet. It’s…
Fading to black means stopping. It’s a period mark. An end point. The story is over. Fading to white? It can be used to mean so much more. It could be the end, but it also doesn’t have to be. It could be hopeful and enlightening and happy. But it could also be sad. Here’s…
I’ll never watch Titanic again because I don’t have a time machine that could send me back to the 90’s as a teenage girl. But! I would love to play this silly 8-bit video game of Titanic. It sums up all the happenings in the movie pretty well and is perfectly silly: you play cards,…
Hong Kong and Singapore are both bustling international cities of the future that, depending where you are in the city, can almost make you feel like you could be anywhere in the world. Here’s a tour of both cities (or city-state, or special administrative region) in one. I love the split view looks at them.…
This video of a magician’s card trick flips the perspective around so that we can see everything from the point of the view of the magician. Somehow with the reverse angle, it adds more ‘magic’ to the trick and makes what the magician does seem even more impressive. I got lost just watching him shuffle.…
If you thought penguins were just cute and adorable, this amazing photo—featured in National Geographic’s Your Shot—of an Adélie penguin angrily confronting the camera may make you think otherwise. It was captured by Gordon Tait near Casey Station, Antarctica, while shooting a series of time-lapses. He told National Geographic: “We often get groups of Adélie…
I don’t know if covering your car in plastic—ORACAL 970RA—is better than painting it and, to be honest, I don’t really care. But I do care about a car ‘magically’ wrapping itself in plastic in a cool stop-motion video. That, for me, would be really something. Check it out: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
Whether they make us laugh, cry, be inspired, or turn us angry, great monologues stick to our brains long after we leave the theater, sometimes for years, and often become part of our popular culture. The guys at Cinefix put together this neat video ranking their favorites in movie history. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Rene Redzepi, co-owner and executive chef of Danish restaurant Noma—considered by some the best restaurant in the world—interviews legendary sushi master Jiro Ono over a cup of tea in this utterly interesting video. The conversation is a great lesson about food, life, and how to become a true master. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
When you live in the carefully edited Vine world of magic and wizardry and spells and sorcery, you can make anything happen. Zach King is the master of flipping the construct of reality on its head and transforming things into something entirely different. Take this Rube Goldberg machine that starts out normally and then gets…
I enjoyed watching the first season of Better Call Saul because even though it’s a much different show than Breaking Bad and totally good in its own right, it was nice to have some Breaking Bad on television. Characters we loved were back, the feel was similar enough and the visual style matched up. Here’s…
This past weekend, thousands and thousands of attractively dressed Instagram hashtag abusers rushed to the desert of Indio to willfully dehydrate themselves in a united effort to save California from its drought. Either that or Coachella happened. Here’s a photo diary of one of the biggest music buffets in America. Image Credit: Rich Fury/Invision/AP Image…
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein made this beautiful chart that shows what the top 100 tasting beers in the world are (according to BeerAdvocate.com). You won’t find (my favorite) big brand, watered-down, beer-flavored swill in the visualization but you will see the best beers broken down by name, ABV and style of beer. You can…
If I’ve learned anything from watching Game of Thrones, it’s that the Iron Throne is a terrible seat to sit on. It’s uncomfortable and dangerous and when you finally start to enjoy it, you’ll probably be dead. But an Iron Throne toilet? Now that’s awesome. You get to feel like the most powerful person in…
Here’s footage from Vickers Tactical showing what firing a RPG-7 looks like in slow motion. It’s like a rocket launch, only turned horizontal. The back blast off is so huge that it might be just as bad to stand directly behind the RPG as it would be to stand it front of it. Okay, maybe…
Need to scrape gum off a sidewalk or get bird crap off your car or even clean your toilet? Just pour soda on it or around it or in it and let the delicious bubbly sugar liquid diabetes do its thing. Soda can be a magic cleaning material. Which is awesome to know in a…
Prepare to get hypnotized by the skills and precision of Overgaard & Dyrman, a design brand located in Copenhagen, Denmark, that makes beautiful furniture mixing traditional hand crafted techniques with modern technology. This video shows the process of making one of its gorgeous Wire Dining Chairs. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
Patrick Kramer is a human camera. But instead of lens, film, or CCD he uses brushes and oil paints. This series called Gravity shows stunning hyperrealistic paintings of women floating in zero gravity. That’s right, these are paintings and not photographs. Check out these other neat hyperrealistic paintings I found in Patrick Kramer’s website and…
Forensic photography is such an important part of solving crimes and getting a behind-the-scenes peek at what goes on throughout the process is so fascinating. Like most photography, forensic photographers utilize light to capture what they need to see. They match different crimes to different light wavelengths to pull out the relevant details. I learned…
