Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
These beautiful pencil drawings by artist Christo Dagorov transform the sensual texture of human lips into surreal drawings of trees, nudes, or a city. [NSFW-ish] Christo Dagorov is an artist and illustrator based in Switzerland. You can see more of his work on his website. This is part of a series in which we are…
Not to be outdone by their ESA colleagues, NASA is sending a spacecraft to an asteroid to bring a piece of it back. Her name is OSIRIS-REx, and she will be visiting Bennu—great name for an outpost in a sci-fi movie—one of the primordial asteroids that have been orbiting the Sun for millions of years.…
Impressive photo of the F-35C, the US Navy variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, about to take off from the USS Nimitz supercarrier at night for the first time ever. The aircraft launched at 6:01 p.m. (PST) and conducted a series of planned touch-and-go landings before making an arrested landing at 6:40 pm. Nimitz is…
These sculptures by London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz are so small that are impossible to see with the naked eye. They are smaller than a hair and a bit bigger that a human sperm but, despite their size, the level of detail is just insane. [NSFW for tiny naked women] Hurwitz’s created his sculptures using a…
The latest marketing stunt from the Dutch airline KLM gives you the chance to spend a night in this airplane refurbished into a gorgeous loft. At first I thought that sleeping next to the runaway of one of the busiest airports in Europe sounded like a bad idea, but then I saw the pictures and…
You have Thor, Captain America and Wolverine on one side. Master Chief, Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2, Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pokeball and a blocky guy from Minecraft. It should be no contest, outside of some fancy weapons, the superheroes should destroy any video game character… but do they? I guess the moral of…
There is just something unexplainably awesome about carnivorous plants eating things. It’s like nature’s revenge mixed with some alien imagination, like if these plants were grown from a different planet. Watch these carnivorous plants grow and chomp at bugs in this wonderful time lapse. Chris Field, who filmed this, wrote: Over a year of effort!…
BuzzFeed recorded normal, everyday things people do with a thermal imaging camera to see what our bodies’ temperature looks like when we’re, well, doing normal, everyday things. Spoiler: it makes a lot of things look really gross, especially exercise which looks like a damn disease. Having Predator vision is sort of neat but would totally…
Train surfing is not new. Videos of crazy Russian kids are not new either. But a video of crazy Russian kids jumping from high speed train to high speed train, risking a deadly fall or electrocution by the 25,000-volt overhead electric lines that power the JSC Russian Railways—that is new. And freaking crazy too. SPLOID…
Sarah Lee is one of the best photographers I’ve ever found. It’s not because of her perfect technique and aesthetics. It’s that she has the ability to evoke nostalgia with every shot—even if I have never experienced her scenes in real life, I’ve lived them in my dreams of eternal summer. She told me this…
NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute have published a new research paper detailing how space flight affects “cardiovascular, immunological, sensorimotor, musculoskeletal, reproductive and behavioral implications” on men and women. Here are the highlights: Orthostatic Intolerance, or the inability to stand without fainting for protracted periods, is more prevalent upon landing in female astronauts…
All photos from space are cool, but this photo of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is simply masterful, the most spectacular of all the photos of the comet so far. Worthy of a Kubrick movie frame. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Those make-good-stuff-happen pranks are getting crazy. After turning a waitress’ shift into the best day of her life, the people at Break decided to give away a house to Cara Simmons, a housekeeper and single mother of three. But first, they made her believe the new house was actually her new workplace. In fact, the…
One of the things that fascinate me the most about mechanical things is how they build them, especially the very first steps in the process. NASA has released this photo of the first assembly step of their next Mars lander. It seems like some lost part from a Celestial designed by Jack Kirby. Technicians in…
Despite it being a bit too slow, this fight between two katana-wielding robotic arms is a great example of how precise their movement can be. I just wish they were not only arms, but humanoid robots fighting—giant humanoid robots. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Last Friday you saw the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit in glorious ultra-HD. Veteran Blackbird pilot Richard Graham explains how the cockpit actually works in this fascinating video filmed inside the cockpit. Lots of technical words, but seeing him moving around inside that tight cockpit is really cool. Top image: Lockheed Martin photo of Brian Shul flying…
Brazilian editor Leandro Copperfield combined the most iconic and spectacular images from two of my favorite directors, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese, in one video. Hit play and get ready for an overdose of film excellence. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Most love songs have music videos where couples kiss, hug, or have sex. This video for the song Luna by South Korean band HEO does the same, except they take it to the extreme thanks to some cool but really creepy special effects. HEO is an electronic music band from South Korea. Luna is one…
I still get the chills when I re-read Brian Shul’s account of his Blackbird flight against enemy SAM batteries over Libya. Imagine yourself inside that tight SR-71 cockpit with all the alarms sounding. This cool 360-degree virtual reality view will help. Expand and pinch to zoom the images (only works on desktop browsers.) Right-click to…
This is the heart wrenching story of Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams. He lost all his squad mates—11 of them—when their vehicle exploded on their way to a rescue mission in Barwanah, Iraq. And all because, at the last minute, someone tapped on his shoulder. He was lucky. Perhaps, he thinks, too damn lucky. SPLOID…
