Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
London-based photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz created this badass 2015 calendar featuring pictures of beautiful superheroines wearing impossible liquid suits, including Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, or Catwoman. [NSFW-ish] Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz is a London-based photographer shooting under the name Aurum Light Studio. You can follow Jaroslav on Facebook and Twitter, and preorder the calendar here. This is part of…
10 characters (Asterix, Calvin, Donald Duck, Captain Haddock, Batman, Heimo Vesa, Corto Maltese, Moomintroll, Garfield, and Lucy) each drawn in the style of 10 cartoonists (Uderzo, Watterson, Barks, Hergé, Adams, Jarla, Pratt, Jansson, Davis, and Schulz) for a total of 100 perfect renditions! Impeccable work by Finnish illustrator Jaakko Seppälä. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Now this is what I call moonwalking (walking on the actual moon can be called moonwalking too). A guy strings a tight rope across two rocks and then walks on it while a giant full moon acts as his background. It looks like he can touch the Moon. So cool. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
I love to watch someone write with a fountain pen. It tickles my neck to hear the strokes and see the trail it leaves. This video, however, shows a fountain pen writing a little differently. It’s writing with water. It’s like magic seeing the ink of the fountain pen instantly flow through the capillaries of…
Don’t try this at home (if your home somehow has lava?). But this video shows what happens when you step in lava that’s burning anywhere from 1292 to 2192 degrees Fahrenheit. You don’t exactly sink in and become engulfed in the molten burning red liquid, you sink a little bit and then catch fire. Here’s…
J. R. R. Tolkien’s posthumous The Silmarillion describes the universe where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. It has all the secrets of Middle Earth, from individual characters to the genesis of wizards, elves, orcs, or men. This must-watch short explainer reveals its crucial elements in four minutes. SPLOID is delicious…
There’s a lot of dangerous hijinks in Home Alone, so it makes sense to use a stuntman to get 9-year-old Macaulay Culkin out of harm’s way. But it’s not like they could use another child for those wild stunts, instead the movie used a 30-year-old man who was roughly the same size as Macaulay Culkin.…
This is a day in the life of Conga, a dog that loves the snow-covered mountains of Bariloche, Argentina. And when I say love, I really mean love. The energy and happiness of this creature are contagious. I want to do like Santiago Guzman, who followed her like in a real life Adventure Time episode.…
There have been a lot of bad news this year. And a lot of good ones too. Sadly, many of the good ones never get the proper coverage they need and they get lost in the storm of crap that we have to suffer every day. Luckily, Bill Gates has highlighted the best five news…
Netflix premiered its new original series Marco Polo a few days ago. It tells the story of the famous explorer in the court of Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan. I haven’t seen it yet but its beautiful title sequence has convinced me to give it a go. This is how they made it: SPLOID is delicious…
Impressive photo of the giant tubes that house four of the 24 Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) carried by Ohio-class nuclear submarines. 14 of these submarines travel for months underwater, carrying fifty percent of all the active thermonuclear warheads in the US arsenal. The Ohio-class submarines will be replaced by a next-generation…
FiveThirtyEight compiled the list of the 100 most used emojis on Twitter, which you can track online in real time using this seizure-inducing website (seriously, they warn about this when you try to load it.) SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I didn’t know a medieval instrument could sound so cool until I saw this video. French musician Guilhem Desq electrified his hurdy gurdy and connected it to a sampler to create these amazing sounds that seem to come straight out from Tom Morello’s guitar. Go to the two minutes mark to see what I mean.…
I’ve seen videos of pets eating with human hands before, but I don’t care. This holiday dinner party with 13 dogs and a cat has to be the best. More, please! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The new Panama Canal lock gates are now being installed and holy crap they are gigantic to the point of disbelief. Egyptian pyramids-level huge. Imperial Star Destroyer-level massive. Look at those tiny people and the size of those concrete canyons. The 3,285-ton 9-story-high gate is 33 feet (10 meters) wide. Talking to Marine Link, “the…
There’s never enough things cut in half. My favorite books when I was a kid were cutaway books. Everything in the world should be cut in half and put on display. Like this Leopard I tank, the democratic heir to the Panzer and Tiger tanks that made the Wehrmacht famous and the first line of…
This is the Anvil Industries’ Carrack, a 403-foot (123-meter) ship and a maximum crew of five. It is not real, but it feels real because every detail in its interior has been designed as if it were a real vessel. It’s one of the ships from Chris Roberts’ Star Citizenpersistent alternative universe, where I’m sure…
Wow. For a few seconds here, the killer whales look like they’ve been animated with CGI. They move so effortlessly that they don’t seem real. But Smithsonian shows how this footage was caught, with a camera invented by photographer David Riggs just to see killer whales and what they’re hunting underwater. The footage comes from…
HBO has very slowly teased and trickled footage from Game of Thrones season 5 with a secret website and now this new elaborate seemingly self-destructing mobile-only video teaser. Luckily, the footage—which could only play once and not be screenshotted—was leaked online and we have a few more seconds to get excited. The website ThreeEyedRaven.com started…
Johnnie Walker has a pretty neat commercial on air these days that covers 7 different backgrounds in just one long take. It’s a well choreographed and perfectly timed spot, a man is at a bar and starts walking. As he moves along, the scenery changes along with him to give him a wild journey until…
