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Induction forging is probably the closest thing we have on this wee Earth that can be considered magic. Just watch this knife glide through the coils of this induction heater and instantly (instantly!) glow bright red because it got so damn hot. I would stick all kinds of metal through that hole. SPLOID is delicious…
The Moken people in Southeast Asia are known as “Sea Gypsies” because they’re a nomadic group of people whose life revolves completely around the ocean. This documentary gives you a glimpse of their life, like how a man can’t propose to a woman unless he can make a boat or how love is found in…
Here’s awesome footage from underneath a MiG-29 showing the fighter jet taking off from an aircraft carrier. The view is insane, you see the jets fire up and watch the world turn blurry as the MiG launches itself into the air. There’s a surprising, almost sort of peaceful awesomeness when it starts flying and leaves…
This excerpt from Straight Up: Helicopters in Action—a documentary released on IMAX theaters a few years ago—shows the dangerous daily routine of the guys in charge of fixing the high voltage lines. One of the workers say that even if you’re afraid of heights or electricity you can still do this job—I seriously doubt it.…
Momofuku’s chef David Chang challenges the traditional way of making ramen broth using flavor-packed freeze-dried food like the one astronauts eat in their missions. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Photographer Navid Baraty doesn’t need the Hubble Space Telescope to roam the Universe capturing amazing pictures. He just needs a scanner, glasses, cream, salt, or anything he can find in his kitchen to obtain these cool images of invented galaxies and planets. Navid told CNET: The images are made by placing the objects on an…
We’re just faceless shapes made of dots and lines and nodes to a computer. And that’s kind of awesome. This experimental project by Maria Takeuchi uses Microsoft Kinect to capture the motion data of a dancer and then rebuilds those movements into a stunning dancing body made of dots and lines and nodes. Here’s the…
Here’s a terrifying video that shows the importance of having an airbag that works as it’s supposed to versus having an airbag that works… but is a hundredth of a second late. You see one watermelon drop in slow motion and get cradled by the deployment of an airbag versus another watermelon that explodes. All…
Apple has a video showing off how it makes the stainless steel Apple Watch and it looks a lot like they’re using Tolkien magic to make the watch’s case inside Mount Doom in Mordor. You get to see glimpses of the entire process, from the alloy they use to seeing the molten stages and cold…
Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day! The company keeps increasing their building speed and size of…
Human cannonballs are not launched from real cannons butspecial cannons that use either springs or compressed air. That doesn’t mean it is not risky: They suffer accelerations of 7G and can fly over a distance of 193 feet (59 meters). In fact, “more than 30 human cannonballs have died during the performance of this stunt.”…
This time lapse took two years and about 5TB worth of footage to be completed. The result is stunning, and not only because the work of Peter Jablonowski is technically perfect, but also for its accurate depiction of Austria’s gorgeous cities and mesmerizing landscapes.
Filmmaker and animator Masoud Moein made this video transforming the lights of Tehran, in Iran, into a trippy kaleidoscope of blurred lights and moving colors. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Our friend Lieutenant Chris Nigus—Weapons Training Officer with the Strike-Fighter Squadron VFA-27 Royal Maces—sent us his new video, which has some truly spectacular shots that I have never seen before. Like the night shot footage above—we only had photos—or this cool landing footage from a carrier’s deck camera. There are a lot more outstanding sequences…
Beholdthe amazing photography of Black Little. This outstanding series belong to his latest monograph, called Preservation. It opens today at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City, California. If you are in Los Angeles, go see it. If you are not that lucky, you can see how beautiful it looks here [NSFW!] Blake Little is an…
Here’s a really neat, classic experiment that’s always fun to see. When you place uranium inside a cloud chamber, you can see it decay and emit bits of radiation. It’s like seeing little alpha particle torpedoes shooting out in every direction, leaving a trail behind. You can actually do this type of experiment at home…
Fried frogs can look frighteningly like failed science experiments and imagining eating them might conjure gooey liquid slime down your throat but they’re actually quite enjoyable to eat. So even though this black bun burger looks like it has disgustingly trapped a gross frog, I’m sure it tastes just fine. The burger is being sold…
This time lapse shows what 24 hours of a summer day (and I guess, a summer night) looks like in the Arctic Circle. You can see the Sun rising and setting like it normally does anywhere else but instead of disappearing beyond the horizon as the Earth turns, it pops right back up and the…
This is Salt, the newest yacht concept by Lujac Desautel. It is a sailboat. It has a clean design. It is very pretty. It is not my ideal sailboat—I like classic lines—but it is the kind of ship that I imagine Steve Jobs would have wanted instead of the horror he actually got. I would…
Andy and Jean don’t race like we did when we were kids. They put on their parachutes, run up abandoned buildings in South Africa, and then jump back down to the finish line. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
