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Mayokero is the first song of the album Acowpella Beatbox by Israeli artist Roy Kafri. The music video—directed by Vania Heymann, a second year student in Bezalel School of Art and Design—is brilliant. It takes classic album covers and animates them to sing along the song in a completely seamless way. Roy Kafri is an…
This is the Pieter Schelte, which is now the largest ship sailing the seas, surpassing even the Maersk Triple-E*. Built by Daewoo in Korea, this catamaran is so huge that it can lift entire oil platforms off their base, pick up the base itself, and then transport it all to port—which is exactly what it’s…
It’s not Interstellar but now I want to see it just the same: Ambition is the sci-fi film that nobody seems to be reporting about even while its main actor is arguably the best character in Game of Thrones—Littlefinger himself—and its director was already nominated for an Academy Award in 2002. [Updated] It looks good—and…
Those awesome madmen at Photonicinduction got a regular toaster and plugged it into one of their giant power supplies to drastically push the voltage and watts up and see if they could make a toast in just 10 seconds. Mission accomplished. I wish I had this at breakfast time every morning. SPLOID is a new…
It’s no surprise that I love this. This movie trailer uses footage from Wall-E, my favorite Pixar movie ever, and transforms the story to match the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which from what we’ve seen so far, is going to be fantastic. The result? An absolute thrill ride. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Over the past thirty years, few cities have undergone the transformation of Shanghai—from flat city filled with greenery to mutant New York on speed and steroids. Claire and Max illustrate how much has changed in this neat video. They eliminated the current buildings from the skyline and then drawing them in and putting them back.…
Baking a cake is a labor of love but also just basic chemistry, you’re mixing ingredients together and making it react into something delicious. But each ingredient is important! Leaving out eggs or baking powder or butter can change the cake dramatically. Here’s what a cake looks like without one of those ingredients. The baking…
The X-37B—America’s spy space drone—has landed safely after a record-setting orbit of 675 days. While this was expected, that doesn’t make it any less incredible. The fact that this spacecraft has been in orbit for almost two years and has returned to Earth intact is an amazing technological feat. The spacecraft landed today at 9:24am…
Have you had any nightmares, lately? Would you like some? Then you’ll love the South American Goliath birdeater. This furry spider is the size of a puppy, and thanks to hard claws on the tips of its foot-long legs, it makes a horrifying clicking sound when it scampers through the forest. Harvard etymologist Piotr Naskrecki…
This Sunday something historical will happen: An ancient rare comet will arrive to Mars after millions of years traveling at 33 miles per second from the Oort cloud. It will look like you can see above, passing just within a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, engulfing the Red Planet in…
I took the classic mythology class back in high school. And one of my biggest disappointments was the dull and tasteless drawings on the book. Nothing like the shinny mighty gods Polish graphic designer Adam Spizak portrays in these beautiful illustrations. Scythian Ursa Ganesh Jupiter Adam Spizak is a Polish graphic designer and art director…
I’ve heard many weird versions of The Star-Spangled Banner in my life. But this one, by a guy shooting his gun at tuned metal sheets, is by far the weirdest. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Belgium-based ad agency Duval-Guillaume has a new clever campaign using human life-risking stupidity gone viral to raise awareness about organ donation. I can imagine the concept working perfectly with those daredevil videos we sometimes post in Sploid. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is madness. What you are looking at is not a screenshot of Simcity. It is a megalopolis made entirely in Minecraft using 4.5 million blocks over the course of two years on an Xbox 360 (!) Its name is Titan City and yes, it’s completely insane, especially when you get up close: The city…
“Raytheon is testing a new laser-guided 155mm artillery shell which adds laser-designation to GPS guidance in order to provide more targeting options and better pinpoint targets on-the-move,” reports DoD Buzz. It’s called the Excalibur S. Unlike expensive missiles, which require sophisticated avionics and propulsion systems, this is a comparatively cheap artillery shell which, instead of…
These boats racing against each other pack nearly 8,000 horsepower and can hit speeds of 260mph. Basically, they’re really, really fast. But what’s even cooler is what the boats leave in their wake, a perfect wall of water that shoots out and up into the sky. It’s like they’re tearing the water apart. SPLOID is…
Skiing? Fun. Night skiing? Even more fun. Night skiing in impossible bright light suits that transform your body into a glowing orb as you fly down the mountain? That has to be the most fun you can have. And if it’s not, it’s definitely the coolest looking way to ski down a mountain. We’ve seen…
Here’s a clever ad from Philips for their smart Hue light bulbs. It shows how much the living room has changed since the invention of the light bulb: TVs get flattened, furniture evolves, people’s clothes follow trends, etc. but the light bulb stays the same. Well, we know that’s not exactly true but it’s a…
I can’t remember if I ever saw sleeping sperm whales when I was a kid watching each and every single episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau on TV. Had I seen a scene as eerie and magical as this one, I would remember it. So weird and wonderful. SPLOID is a new blog…
Disney just released a teaser trailer for the new animation short Feast that will premiere right before Big Hero 6 and it’s just adorable. I mean, does life get better than seeing a lovable dog happily gulp down delicious food? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Feast is directed by Patrick Osborne. Walt Disney Animation Studios…
