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Shake Shack, very probably the world’s best burger chain, is introducing a new burger to their vaunted lineup: the ShackMeister Burger. It’s a 100% all-natural Angus beef cheeseburger that is topped with crispy marinated shallots and their famous ShackSauce. It’s like a cheeseburger with fancy onion rings in it. I’m in. The burger—which I’m going…
I’m both completely terrified and absolutely impressed by this amazing real-time face tracking and 3D projection mapping system that can digitally impose masks onto people’s faces. It works amazingly well, like their faces have been completely replaced with new ones. This Face Hacking project was designed by the same makers, Nobumichi Asai and crew, behind…
NSA leaks, Ebola, ALS ice bucket challenge, terrible earthquakes, Nicki Minaj twerkin, and the rest of 2014 condensed in a one-minute Animation Domination High-Def video. Pop an Ambien and wait 10 minutes before you click play. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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The Volkswagen Type 2 Kombi ended production last year in Brasil—the last place in the world where the iconic camper van was still in production—and the carmaker made this neat video-testament as a tribute, its last will and testament. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
When I saw Return of the Jedi in the movie theater back in 1983 I and everyone else thought this matte painting of a Rebel hangar was a real thing—that, somehow, they managed to build a full size set with giant models. It was all a magic trick that used distraction to fool your brain.…
Greg Boratyn captures landscapes with absolute perfection. The photo above, taken in Patagonia, Argentina, using multiple exposures while the rising moon was hitting at the right angle, is a perfect example. This gallery has a lot more. Greg Boratyn is a renowned, award-winning landscape and nature photographer based in Orange County, California. His photographs have…
A dedicated comic book superhero super fan just did God’s work: he stitched together all the Marvel Phase 1 and Phase 2 movies into chronological order. Which means you could theoretically watch the entire story unfold in one consistent timeline that makes sense. Since movies that were released later sometimes occurred before other movies and…
A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 had to make an emergency landing earlier today at Gatwick Airport, London, when its right landing gear got stuck. Amazingly enough, the pilots managed to keep control with only three of the four gears in place. That means that one of the plane’s wings wouldn’t have any cushion when it…
These types of dances are an old tradition but they’re always so mind tickling to see. The choreography is perfect and it’s like seeing art in motion. This particular Thousand-Hand Guan Yin dance was performed by deaf dancers which makes the timing of it all even more incredible. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
We all have deep dark fears that are almost always irrational and probably rooted from our childhood and most likely festered when we were alone and trapped in our thoughts. Deep Dark Fears illustrates those fears in a comic form and they’re funny to see but also exposes us to a whole new set of…
Fortune got to work with ILM on their December cover story, featuring Disney’s CEO Bob Iger. The cover itself has Iger against a computer generated version of the Millennium Falcon. The opening photo, however, it’s a shot of Iger composed over a photo of the set with the real Falcon. Pretty damn cool. Obviously, the…
It never ceases to amaze me how people insist on breaking their necks or getting spinal cord injuries by jumping off vertical slopes on top of heavy snowmobiles. The guys on the video below just keep going for it in some rather crazy drops. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Sploid reader Alden Gleason saw this beautiful GIF last week and decided that we should all see the full source video, which he made at Julie’s Organic Ice Cream in Eugene, Oregon. So he uploaded it to YouTube in high definition for all of you to enjoy. It’s a glorious film of cream dreams. Hey…
Sir Chris Bonington’s is one of the best British mountaineers of all times. And, at his 80 years old, he still climbs mountains. Perhaps lacking some of the strength he had years ago, but with such determination that he makes me feel old—and I’m almost half his age. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Someone on Reddit posted this old November 2010 image by the Cassini spacecraft. It shows 2-mile-high (3.5-kilometer) structures rising on Saturn’s B ring’s outer edge. We talked about this back then, but it’s a great peg to show this cool artist impression of what it would look like from the ring itself: Another finding from…
This video shows a professional watchmaker taking apart and reassembling a Rolex Submariner. The insanely intricate movement of this watch is composed by more than a hundred little pieces, all of them vital to make it work with absolute precision, and all of them assembled by hand. [Watchfinder] SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Surprise! There’s a new surprise segment of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube and god I needed this as much as I didn’t need The Interview: Three minutes of slamming New Year’s Eve—the holiday when all the amateur party-goers invade the world to be extremely annoying—and how to get out of it. Right…
Maude White shows impossible skills and infinite patience in her beautiful series of illustrations made entirely up of paper, with no pencil or ink. She turns the paper into the lines of the drawing by subtracting tiny pieces out of it with an X-acto knife—an extremely delicate process. You can follow Maude White on Facebook,…
Smarter Every Day has found out a solution to a mystery that even a Nobel Prize in Physics like Richard Feynman couldn’t solve: Why spaghetti never breaks in half, but in three or four parts. To find out he filmed the break at 250,000 frames per second—it’s a fascinating answer to a question I never…
