Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The always excellent Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting takes a fascinating look at why some films resonate with us by explaining what the average movie goer thinks is unexplainable. Take Drive. Anyone who saw the movie knew it looked beautiful and felt alive. Why? It’s the simple quadrant system. Top, down, left and…
Somehow a wall filled with these hard ceramic balls is bulletproof. It stops bullets from penetrating through the wall and even prevents bullets from ricocheting off the wall too. It’s basically the best shield against a gun we have. Sure, sandbags can also stop bullets but Saab’s Soft Armour system anti bullet wall looks like…
August, 13, 1944. The British 8th Army occupies Florence. The Allies finally break out of Normandy. Meanwhile, somewhere in the south of Tuscany, a soldier writes this encrypted message and hides it inside a bullet. In 2015, someone found it and deciphered it. It was the end of a hilariously absurd story. Many people all…
Black magic and sorcery and deals with the devil and breaks in The Matrix and possibly other dimensions. That’s what super hydrophobic material is made out of. Like this super hydrophobic knife that just slices through a water droplet and cuts it in two. Are we really sure science can explain what my eyes are…
NYC had 328 murder victims in 2014, its lowest figure ever. For those who live or visit it’s hard to believe that this was one of the world’s most violent cities. 1990 was the pinnacle of a spiral of crime that started in the 1960s and exploded in the 1980s. Listen to some of the…
Japanese toy company Konapun has this cute but fully-functional miniature kitchen that is just perfect to cook a real Thanksgiving dinner for your hamster—or his favorite breakfast. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Cool photo of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II undergoing tests in extreme freezing weather conditions. An F-35B from the F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force in Maryland has undergone rigorous climatic testing at the U.S. Air Force 96th Test Wing’s McKinley Climatic Laboratory located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The laboratory supports all-weather testing…
Norwegian director and special effects master Erik Ferguson seems to be obsessed with weird life and organic matter. His short VEv is a good example of this obsession, showing tissue growing in a laboratory—amorphous living beings with basic mobility. Gross and fascinating at the same time. While this is not real, I wouldn’t be surprised…
Here’s the potential timeline for Russia’s T-50 PAK-FA, the fifth generation multirole fighter that will get the designation Su-50once it gets into production on January 2016. The nemesis to the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II will fly with the flag of Russia, South Korea, India and Iran. January 2016 Sukhoi has already produced…
Check out this sequence of 19 photos of the Philae lander descending to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014, taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS imager. ESA says the timestamp marked on the images are in GMT. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Learn how to fry meat, fish, vegetables, or even desserts to perfection with master chef Raymond Blanc. I don’t know if it’s his accent, his immense knowledge of the different cooking techniques or what but I can’t stop watching this guy talk—and cook. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Here is the list of the nine tallest skyscrapers on Earth right now, each represented by one large resolution crystal clear photo. Of course, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is still the tallest with 2,722 feet (828 meters)—649 feet (198 meters) taller than the second, the Shanghai Tower. 1. Burj Khalifa Dubai, UAE (2,722 ft/828…
People have gone down the Niagara Falls (which is already nuts) but Red Bull says that ice climber Will Gadd is the first person crazy enough to go up the falls. As in he climbed a damn waterfall. The Niagara Falls was frozen over but Gadd gets impossibly close to the falls and somehow makes…
There are boring ways to make movies and then there is the much more satisfying creative process of filmmaking. Tony Zhou of Every Frame Painting pits the two techniques next to each other, showing how directors can visually tell a story when the scene just involves characters in a room. Sometimes people provide shapes. Tony…
Fruit may be the best thing to blow up because all that pulp, juice, seeds, peel, skin make for great gory guts in explosions. This slow motion explosion of an orange is as good as explosions get. In fact, it almost looks like a mini version of our Sun going supernova and exploding on itself.…
The Slow Mo Guys got a 10,000-fps high resolution camera and pointed it into the guts of a DSLR camera shooting photos at 1/8000th of a second. It’s amazing to see how much vibration there is when the mirror and diaphragm move. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This is what people do in Minnesota in the middle of January: Drill 30,000 holes on Gull Lake for the largest ice fishing contest in the world. I’m not so surprised about the fact that there are 30,000 holes in that lake but about the fact that there’s such a thing as an ice fishing…
The European Southern Observatory has published a new Very Large Telescope photo of the cometary globule CG4 or, like they call it, The Mouth of the Beast. As the ESO says, as with other cometary globules, “the exact nature of CG4 remains a mystery.” There are two theories. Some astronomers think that CG4 may have…
Witness this farmer creating an smiley using his cattle—because that’s what you do when you have cows, a truck, food, and a drone. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
After a few hours on the road you get bored and your mind starts asking questions like: How the hell do they mow the ditches on the roadside. Don’t worry we have you covered. They use awesome machines like this—the CLAAS Xerion 3300 VC Octopus. I want one. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
