Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
There are a couple of companies that use robots to send handwritten messages on paper from your phone. The only bad thing is that they have been using canned typefaces until now: Bond has a new robot that can write notes in your own handwriting using a fountain pen. It’s really cool, check it out:…
The Hello Machine is a fascinating short film directed in 1974 by Carroll Ballard. It shows the mind-boggling process of making AT&T’s Electronic Switch System mainframe by hand, a formidable machine was built after 20 years of research and spending 500 million dollars—2,4 billion in 2014 dollars! “That was 10 times its original budget,” says…
I don’t know how many cakes you have to make before having the skills to turn a giant mass of shapeless frosting into these symmetric sculptures, but I would guess between 100 to 2 billion. I just know that I like to watch these videos of Asian chefs making them to perfection. So relaxing. The…
This cool comercial for Madrid Fusión—an international gastronomic summit held annually in Madrid, Spain—shows the complicated life of a man who bears the burden of having two mouths. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Kudos to redditor ChristopherDesign for this cool version of a three-eyed Reddit alien mascot, rendered in Cinema 4D and finished in Photoshop. He says it took him 30 to 40 hours to make: I’d say the actual amount of time to create what you see is about 30-40 hours, but I worked on it pretty…
I have seen some crazy closeup volcano photography before, but this is madness. Kawika Singson has gone closer to liquid lava than I have ever seen. Watch this footage of hot magma spilling right into the ocean while he’s on the water just a few feet away. Even if he used a stick, it is…
John Edmark has created a fascinating series of fibonacci zoetrope sculptures that feel like magic. Watch them in action. It’s hypnotizing. The recursive nature of the sequence used to build them and the filming technique—with the camera “set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture” but with…
Have you ever wondered what the sculptures and paintings in museums and galleries have to stare at all day? Me neither, but a Tumblr called What They See did, taking photos from the point of view of famous works of art. The results are surprisingly funny, and somehow melancholic at the same time. Above: The…
There is not much to say about Moving In—a tiny short directed by Tyler Falbo and starring Mike Collins, Lacie Ratliff, and Hayden Greiwe—except that you should watch it, because it’s a lot of fun condensed in just one minute and thirty seconds. Enjoy. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
FliteTest—a group of RC aircraft aficionados—have made a four-rotor, eight-motor-powered Helicarrier that actually flies. They tested it and it worked just fine. Watch them launching and landing airplanes equipped with built-in cameras using video goggles and remote controls. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This commercial for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival shows legendary porn star Ron Jeremy trying to understand why his movies have never been accepted to the festival. I feel the same way as you, Ron, Woodfellas and The Rod Father are brilliant. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Armenian artist Tigran Tsitoghdzyan made these gigantic hyper-realistic paintings of women faces appearing magically through their hands. They emulate a photographic technique called double exposure, which combines two exposures of different things over the same film to make a single image. Here some more of his work: Tigran Tsitoghdzyan is an Armenian-born painter based currently…
I was zombied-out after Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead, the seminal horror movies by filmmaker George A. Romero, but apparently you kids keep loving those dumb walking corpses. You will like this fantastically crafted 3D animation short, which feels like the beginning of a full feature. Some of the sequences…
Animator Dillon Markey—who works for Robot Chicken and famous animation studio PESfilm—took an old Nintendo Power Glove, replaced the circuit board, added bluetooth connectivity, and transformed it into a cool animation tool. This short documentary explains how he did it: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Here’s CineFix’s latest creation: The 2014 blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy in 8-bit. Though this video game version doesn’t have the charm of Chris Pratt or versatility of Vin Diesel’s dialogue, it does have the nostalgia of old video games which matches up nicely with the throwback fun in the movie.
This looks incredibly fun. Filmed by the good times having Devin Super Tramp, it shows people hitting a piñata while ziplining. It’s a good excuse to have a whack at things while zipping on by but also looks like a fun video game happening in real life. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Out of all the cities in the world, Shanghai might look the most futuristic. The rapid transformation that took it from a vertically challenged, agrarian looking town into a bustling metropolis with an arms race for a skyline actually might have actually advanced it decades beyond the present. This drone video by Cian Greaney shows…
I really would have no practical use for this Neo-Macintosh or Macintosh Neue or whatever you want to call it. But I want it. I would totally buy it. I’d probably only use it to write the book I will never finish and play Crystal Quest, but it would be totally mine if Apple ever…
It must be the increasing nostalgia of being an old man who saw the originals at the theater, but I’m starting to get really excited about the new old school Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So, after coming across the allegedly new design for a new TIE fighter, I collected every leaked concept art I…
Doug Hindson’s short Disconnect gives a powerful answer to an important question:Why do we keep sharing our edited lives and avidly connecting to others through Facebook, Twitter, or Whatsapp all the time? His answer is simple, one that I’m sure you have all thought about before. Deep down we are afraid of the moments when…
