Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Eddie Del Rio grew up loving Star Wars and comic books, spending “most of [his] time lost in my kenner action figures, immersed in comics and oh yes….drawing.” His passion for all things spacey, roboty, and shiny shows in his artwork. Eddie Del Rio is an concept designer based in northern California. He started to…
David Ruiz Luna is not a professional photographer, just a guy who likes to travel around the world and take photos of his trips. He just happens to end in some amazing landscapes—sometimes breathtaking, sometimes alien-looking, always a reminder that I should get off this fucking sofa right now. Above: Going up Island Peak, Sagarmatha…
A beautiful short by writer and director Thanasis Tsimpinis: Fawns. Sometimes, letting someone go is the ultimate act of love. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Miniature Channel is a Japanese Youtube channel devoted to cooking edible food using cute miniature kitchen supplies. There are many videos: They make curry, tajine, eggs and bacon, and of course, Japanese food. Here are some of their best Japanese miniature dishes. Shrimp tempura Yakitori Sushi Sashimi SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Ben Edmonds is former graphic designer turned into an artisan. His kitchen knives are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. He crafts them by hand in his small workshop in Derbyshire, England. Watch him make one of them in this beautiful, relaxing video. Here are some of the knives he makes: SPLOID is…
This interesting video by filmmaker Steven Benedict explains the origins and evolution of movie trailers in American cinema. From the first in 1912, for What happens to Mary, to Kubrick’s great Dr. Strangelove, or the latest Hollywood blockbuster trailers. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Thousands of South Koreans tune in daily to Muk-bang (eating broadcasts): Online live-stream channels where people eats large amounts of food on camera. Those people, called Broadcast Jockeys (BJ’s), became real celebrities that could earn up to $9000 a month just by sharing meals with their lonely audience. This interesting video by Munchies shows how…
We can feel the wind when it hits us and we can track wind patterns when we check the weather and when it’s really strong, we can totally see the effect wind has on the world around us but this video let’s us imagine what seeing actual wind would look like. It looks like ghosts.…
Here’s a nice way to have fun without doing drugs: pour different colors of paint on top of other colors of paint on top of a wooden block. The layers of paint will stack on top of each other and the colors will expand and you’ll get a super psychedelic art piece that looks like…
Baoding balls are two metal balls that are rotated over and over again in one hand for meditation, exercise or rehab purposes. A lot of dexterity and focus and strength is necessary to pull of the rotation. Not everyone can do it! This robotic arm controlled by wires can though. Look at those fake flexible…
The human body is such a magnificent thing. Just check out this video that shows how our immune system works. When a parasite finds its way inside a place where it clearly shouldn’t be, white blood cells immediately start rushing to the rescue. It only takes a few seconds for the parasite to get swallowed.…
Oliver Oettli says that he usually doesn’t do stuff like his Power Winds photo series but these photos became his most well known project. And rightly so. They feel magical, as if these women were supernatural beings. No digital tricks here: Photoshop was only used to adjust color and contrast. Oliver Oettli is a photographer…
Lieutenant Chris Nigus sent us these series of spectacular photos taken while flying on missions during the last couple of years of his deployment in Japan. Above you can see him flying low level in Japan’s Orange Route. Some of them show weapons firing from his F/A-18E Super Hornet. F/A-18E Super Hornet’s M61A2 Vulcan nose…
I didn’t know about this fun factoid: On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services. Why, you ask? Here’s the story. On April 14, 1970, 56 hours after its launch from the…
Russian photographer Nick Lariontsev made this cool time-lapse using macro lens to show how mold grows from up close. At this zoom level, something that normally disgust us transforms into a beautiful alien universe full of life. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This insane video shows a Russian guy shooting a pistol at his friend’s head to test the quality of the K6-3—a titanium helmet with bullet-proof glass used by Russian special forces. Some commenters think this may be fake. Many think it’s real. What do you think? If it is not real, it is an extremely…
I could spend hours watching this milling machine—SolidCAM’s iMachining and simultaneous 5-Axis Milling—transform a solid metal cylinder into an impeller. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Jelle Bakker’s hobby is making huge marble runs and rolling ball sculptures. One of his creations is the “Marblelanche”: An epic marble machine with obstacle tracks that fits 1000 marbles. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
25 years ago today, Voyager I turned around to take a photo of Earth on its way out of the Solar System. You are looking at it. Our planet—6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away from the spacecraft—is that tiny pale blue dot, “a mote of dustsuspended in a sunbeam.” It is one of the…
This is cool. A time lapse, aptly named Highway in the Sky by the guy who filmed it, shows how different layers of clouds in the same sky can actually move in completely different directions. It’s like seeing clouds respect different flows of traffic. It’s like seeing multiple skies in one. It’s like staring at…
