Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Guillaume Juin took 80GB of photos from the International Space Station crew members from 2011 to 2014 and made this stunning film. Without a doubt, it’s the most formidable video of the views from the ISS I’ve ever seen. Watching it makes me extra-jealous of the people up there. Play it huge on your TV…
Blizzard announced their new game today. Its name is Overwatch and, looking at the short film—they call it trailer, but it is a short—they could produce a movie out of this. Make Brad Bird direct it and grab a few billion dollars on top of all the gazillion dollars that they are going to be…
Here’s a cool visualization that, even knowing how much empty space is out there, still freaks the hell out of me: All the ~600,000 asteroids discovered in the Solar System since 1980 to 2014, animated through time by Scott Manley. Amazing video. Bonus: How Jupiter shepherds them away from us. Bonus: Jupiter the shepherd of…
Rocks, cellphones, chairs, people on chairs, bicycles, motorbikes, washing machines—it doesn’t matter. If it has mass and it’s hard, Rocky Byun will make it balance on any point, miraculously making it stand still in seemingly impossible positions. Even with his eyes closed. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I forget how cool the technology around us is sometimes. And then I get reminded when I see these giant machine robot arms make a car. It reminds of those futuristic scenes of sci-fi movies that make me wonder how come we’re not advancing fast enough. Truth is, we really are. Here’s footage of a…
It’s like a trippy and visually spectacular 3D kaleidoscope or something. The cyclists are wearing a LED light suit that can change colors and the flash-rate and the luminosity so that they can look completely different while they spin around in carefully choreographed moves. Called Ghost Peloton, it was created by NVA and the Phoenix…
That’s some serious skill. Not only is the plane landing in the mountains, it’s also in the middle of the forest. Not only is it in the middle of the forest but the runway is incredibly narrow. Not only is the runway narrow but it’s a bumpy ass strip of dirt too. So yeah. That…
As the tagline for the upcoming Simpsorama episode states, this crossover episode is very clearly a show out of ideas teaming up with a show out of episodes. And yet, I can’t get enough! Here’s the couch gag for the Simpsorama where Homer finds much enjoyment in the company of robots. SPLOID is delicious brain…
I like to see everyday objects under different, almost unrecognizable perspectives. Like these jet engines with their shells open. Above: a General Electric GEnx turbofan engine. Above: A General Electric CF34. The red light is heating lamp used to cook off the resin used in a lining repair. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
If you like classical music, Joey Cloud’sPlanogram is a fascinating toolto analyze the frequency of notes in different piano pieces. Above you can see Chopin’s Etudes Op. 10. Listen to it below. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Zac Mihajlovic—a 29-year-old Batman fan from Camden, Australia—spent two years building this impressive and fully-functional 1989 Batmobile. The car is road legal and he uses it mainly to make sick kids happy—together with the Make-A-Wish foundation. Zac bought some parts from the original car and built others. Apart from the weapons, the car is pretty…
I don’t know if this is a human retina melting, a lava well from a volcano near Mordor, or the eye of the devil himself. But what I do know is that the more I watch it, the more hypnotizing, darker, and scarier it gets. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
These two guys were enjoying their skydiving so much that they lost track on their altitude meters failing to open the parachute on time for a safe landing. Luckily they fell on what it seems to be a corn field and that softened the landing. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
This video is absolutely absurd. It starts like a cheesy 80’s sitcom and then makes a turn and another turn and another turn and keeps going until it creates a labyrinth of hilariousness and craziness. I mean, I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know why I kept watching. I don’t know why I’m…
This ad was made by Elastic for League of Legends (a game of which half the world plays and half the world doesn’t know exists) but really, it’s just phenomenal animation work. I love seeing the marionettes move around and interact with the environment, it really feels like they’re on strings. SPLOID is delicious brain…
There are very few things that are actually cooler in real life than in the movies. Being in space is one of them. Sure, movies might make space look more cinematic and epic but being a real astronaut who actually put on a suit and got on a shuttle to go to space trumps any…
Here’s the trailer for the last part of the Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five Armies. It looks spectacular. I really hope they don’t screw this one, because what remains is my favorite part of the book. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Mark your calendars because this Sunday the Planet Express crew is back for an encore in a new Simpsons episode. The whole Futurama cast—John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille—will be back in an episode called “Simpsorama.” Here’s a sneak peek! I’m excited for this, despite The…
I hate holiday gift ads in general, buy especially when we are so far away from those dates. And yet, I can’t get myself to hate this ad about a kid and his penguin. Yes. A kid and his penguin, who looks like the real thing even if it’s 3D rendering. What can I say.…
The Slow Mo Guys put a non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker to film the action with a high speed camera. The result is a blob of red that seems to be alive to the point in which you think it’s 3D modeled and animated. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
