Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Red Bull is animating crazy surfer stories and this one from surfer Dean ‘Dingo’ Morrison is a doozy. It starts when he decides to buy a boat to try and catch the biggest fish he can. But him and his friends get too drunk and capsize the boat and end up swimming from island to…
Building a commercial airplane is a monumental task. It takes around 4,000 really smart engineers over 7 years of planning to make one of those flying tubes with countless experts testing and re-testing each individual part (and there are 2.65 million parts in an Airbus A350). This video shows you how they make one. There’s…
This is Imāra, a 918-foot (280-meter) long, 187-foot (57 meter) 11-deck luxury giga-yacht. Today it is only a concept by yacht design shop Motion Code: Blue—but not for long. They are aiming it to their Middle East clients. I’m sure Arab princes and Russian oligarchs are grabbing their diamond-encrusted phones now. SPLOID is delicious brain…
Ali Vingiano made another hilarious subtitled short, this time dedicated to all of your who had to bring your significant other to meet your parents over the holidays (or worse, those who will have to do it this year. I’m sorry! Best of luck!)Like the previous one, this short is funny because it’s exactly how…
FoodBeast went to Muncheese Burger—in Torrance, California—to see how they make their delicious, gooey inside but crunchy outside mac and cheese burger buns. It’s not hard at all and they look so delicious. You only have to follow eight easy steps. 1. Boil macaroni 2. Drain the macaroni, drizzle with oil and mix 3. Add…
Jaguar Land Rover says they are developing a 360 Virtual Urban Windscreen that “will allow drivers to get a complete, unhindered view of the road.” I can’t wait for this to be real and standard in every car, although it’s probably still a long time away. The best feature: Follow Me Ghost Car navigation. SPLOID…
A living praying mantis, a glass of liquid (probably water), a horsehair worm escaping out of it. This is not the first time I have seen this—although the mantis was dead then—but that doesn’t make this video any less disgusting and terrifying, yet so fascinating that I had to watch it all. SPLOID is delicious…
I really like women shoes, not only for the reasons you are thinking (that too) but because I think they can be beautiful design pieces. This neat chart—by infographic design studio Pop Chart Lab—brakes down the contemporary footwear styles so we can understand and appreciate the nuances of such a vast world. SPLOID is delicious…
Watch wingsuit daredevil Sammy Rohan jumping from a cliff in Chamonix, France, and flying so close to the ground that he was able to high-five a big yellow hand that his friends were holding on the ground. The stunt was made to raise funds for the Project: Base charity. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
I know the Soviets made tons of crazy stuff back in the 20th century, but this is beyond insane: They blasted an entire forest and the adjacent land with the help of nuclear explosions to carve a canal. Atomic terraforming makes so much sense, doesn’t it? The United States also conducted Plowshare experiments in the…
Check out the gorgeous images that photographer Steve Scalone took of my latest object of desire, a 99-cheese pizza created by pizza world champion Johnny di Francesco, of Melbourne’s famed 400 Gradi. A pizza that The Guardian says tastes fantastic: Fantastic. Di Francesco has created a balanced and surprisingly nuanced pizza. It sounds like a…
Aaron Draplin is the guy who told the internet how profesional designers create their logos with a passion that made me want to spend an entire day with him. I wanted to hear a lot more, so here’s a short documentary which offers a fascinating look into his mind, obsessions, and creative process. This is…
One of my favorite things: seeing the process of how things are made from things I’ve never ever wondered how they get made. Take for instance this awesome hand made candy cane, which starts as dark and yellow sugar goop that looks unrecognizable. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Skip the terrible movie that was Transformers 4 and let’s just enjoy the awesomeness of this visual effects reel from ILM for Transformers: Age of Extinction. It has all the coolest parts of the movie anyway, which is all the parts with any Transformers transforming and any Transformers causing explosions. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
People who toss around dumb conspiracy theories and rabble rouse with large gaps in their brain are impossible to be sane and sensible with. Conspiracy theories are silly and fun to joke around with but to take them serious is just insane. But insane people exist! Here’s how to debunk a lot of conspiracy theories.…
Behold the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020! I don’t know if the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020 is the best. I don’t know how much the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020 costs. Hell, I don’t know anything about the TRUMPF TruPunch 2020. Except watching it in action is a surprising source of inner satisfaction. Also, trumpf should be a verb. SPLOID…
This has to be one of the grossest and coolest things I’ve seen in a while: A guy cutting a giant rubber band ball in half. At one point it feels like the thing is alive and getting ready to jump on the dude’s face and suck his bodily fluids out of his eyes, mouth,…
Aside from creating cool illustrations and infographics from his clients, Jacob O’Neal runs Animagraffs, site where he reveals the inner workings of objects like handguns, speakers, car or jet engines with great detail. Going through his motion graphics is always interesting. See the complete handgun graphic here. See the complete speakers graphic here. See the…
I initially thought this was a photo of a real art installation reflecting on the the objectification of women. It is not. It’s a computer generated cutaway of a futuristic sex robot made by French 3D artist Cesar Vonc. After seeing this, I don’t think I would be able to get aroused by a sex…
National Geographic just announced the winners of their 2014 Photo Contest and they are truly amazing. There are plenty more on their website. Places category Winner Photo and caption by Triston Yeo. The thermal spas in Budapest [are] one of the favorite activities of Hungarians, especially in winter. We were fortunate to gain special access…
