Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The Universe is a truly incredible place. This spectacular new photo by the Hubble space telescope—showing a young star known as V1331 Cyg, 1,800 light years away from Earth—is proof #251,603,995,874. It’s a special star. What makes V1331Cyg special is the fact that we look almost exactly at one of its poles. Usually, the view…
Our admired illustrator Scott Park is back with a really cool poster with all the vehicles in the Back to the Future trilogy. It’s titled 88MPH and you can buy it here.Take a look some of his excellent work. Scott Park is an advertising creative director in Toronto, Canada, as well as an illustrator. In…
Santorini, in Greece, is one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean sea but, for free runners like Jason Paul and Enis Maslic, it’s also an amusement park. Take a tour to this wonderful island as they jump from one rooftop to another, annoy the neighbors, and risk their lives. SPLOID is delicious brain…
Japanese programmer Yusuke Endoh uploaded a while ago this cool video showing ASCII melting into fluids. If you haven’t seen ASCII art before prepare to be amazed by this guy’s programming skills. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Remember that time when you first realized that the Universe was an incredibly gigantic place, when you felt humbled and fortunate at the mere thought of existing in this vast cosmic arena?Listen to Professor Tom Burns, of Ohio Wesleyan University and Director of Perkins Observatory. He still feels that way. “Astronomy is a humbling and…
Because I’m an uncultured American whose definition of cheese is Velveeta and whose idea of bread begins and ends with wonderment, I could never dream up the magic that is a Raclette. I would never be so bold to melt a wheel of cheese and be so daring to spread that gooey goodness onto toast.…
Unreal photo by U.S. Army Visual Information Specialist Jason Johnston: The soldier looks so casual doing his salute that, instead of jumping outside of the airplane, it looks like he is walking on air towards the bay of the C-130 Hercules—like a real world superhero. A U.S. Soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces…
Skateboarding is fun but George Powell of Powell Peralta skateboard makes building skateboards look even more fun. It’s always cool to see hands and machines and people transform wood into something completely different but especially neat to see how the whole skateboard—trucks and bearings and wheels—comes together. Stacy Peralta filmed this fun and upbeat documentary…
Angkor Wat is one of those unbelievable places in the world where you can’t really fathom the history of the ruins around you. I thought it—and all of Northern Cambodia—looked fantastic from the ground but this drone footage shows me that the view is—as it always is—better from the top. The drone footage is stunning.…
Arati Prabhakar—director of the Pentagon’s advanced research arm DARPA—has revealed a breakthrough achievement in machine mind control. Jan Scheuermann, a 55-year-old quadriplegic woman with electrodes in her brain, has been able to fly an F-35 fighter jet using “nothing but her thoughts.” This is her: Scheuermann—who is quadriplegic because of an hereditary genetic disease—was recruited…
Here’s the Galactic Empire’s answer to theRC Millennium Falcon,an RC quadcopter TIE Interceptor. I want to see two dozen of these flying in formation across the sky—or a chase behind the Falcon. With real lasers. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This is not an optical illusion, but it takes advantage of exactly the same principles that make optical illusions work: Our eyes and brain don’t scan reality like a camera does. Instead, the brain interprets external inputs, building its own reality. No spoilers, just watch. It has always blown my mind that our brain can…
Japanese creative group Ugoita spices up traditional origami crane figures by adding electromagnets to their feet. The paper cranes stand on a board where the electric currents are applied to make them move and dance like the most awesome boy band I’ve ever seen. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I have always wondered about two things since I was a kid and saw James Bond screwing a silencer into his gun: How the hell does a silencer look inside and how does it work? The picture above answers the first question and this animated infographic by SilencerCo, the second: SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
I’ve seen Batman fighting criminals, driving awesome vehicles, or even deeply depressed but I’ve never seen him as sexually aroused as in this neat mash-up trailer by Josh Meeter called Fifty Shades of Wayne. Watching this made me think about the weird sexual toys Bruce Wayne would have if he were Grey. SPLOID is delicious…
Californian directorJustin Lutsky makes fun of movie’s action heroes in this hilarious short film that is almost like a check list of all the clichés in the genre. SPLOID SELECTS is a serieswhere we feature awesome and interesting short films we love. If you are a filmmaker with awesome short films you’d like to showcase,…
On March 1 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 deployed two communication satellites to a supersynchronous transfer orbit. This video shows the second one, the EUTELSAT 115 West B. And it feels like a clip from 2001: A Space Odyssey. So cool. According to EUTELSAT’s website it “will provide the Americas with new satellite capacity to reach markets…
I’m not exactly sure what I just watched but I saw liquid dance in ways I didn’t know liquid could even move. At least, not on Earth. The water ballet was filmed by Kamiel Rongen. He insists that everything in this video is real and hints that it was filmed in a fish bowl. There’s…
The world should put together all their brain power and weapons experts and artillery and dumpling ammo so that we can make this dumpling gun machine happen. Imagine a world where at a push of a button we can shoot out the perfect amount of meat, spice it, wrap it and cook it in less…
The US Coast Guard just tweeted this photo of a coyote running across ice, taken from one of its ships in the Boston Harbor, near Quincy. I imagine this is what would happen if humans were destroyed, civilization disappeared forever, and everything was cold and miserable—which sounds like Boston to me. SPLOID is delicious brain…
