Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
We’ve already seen impressive footage of the first ever carrier drone jet launch, the X-47B. But nothing comes close to this short documentary, with extraordinary photography, edition, and sound design that make for an amazing cinematic experience. I wish all aviation shorts were this elegant and immersive. [Thanks for the tip Nacho] SPLOID is a…
I have seen big RC planes in the past, but this is really getting out of hand. I watch these videos of giant scale RC planes—the one above is 85 percent of the original size!—and I have to wonder what’s the point. OK, I know the point: It’s awesome, but you may as well build…
This one-eyed spaghetti monster is not the official map of the Tokyo, but one designed by Korean design studio Zeroperzero. It not only shows the system itself, but also the landmarks, acting as a tourism guide too. They have other maps for cities like New York, London, and Paris. Tokyo Railway System is a railway…
A guy was flying his quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park, Cambridge, when a hawk suddenly appears and decides the sky is to small for both of them. The video shows how the hawk approaches the drone and knocks it down with a simple hit. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
If Disney characters were real people they would probably have an Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat account where they post their selfies. Or at least this is what Italian Illustrator Simona Bonafini thought when she decided to make this neat collection of drawings. Simona Bonafini is a graphic designer based in Milan, Italy. Graduated from Politecnico…
We’ve seen daredevil Scotty Bob fly so close to the trees that he probably had to remove the twigs from his wingsuit with tweezers. We saw him fly so close to a cliff that he could high five a man sitting on the edge. And now we see him fly so close to the rocks…
National Geographic is reporting on this amazing photo of a shark taken in Mossel Bay, South Africa, by 26-year-old art teacher, amateur diver, and photographer Amanda Brewer while working at eco-tourism company White Shark Africa. From her description: This photo of a female Great White Shark was taken with a GoPro hero 3+ Silver from…
Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this sequence of the Dragon spaceship “breathing fire as it rendezvoused with [the International Space Station] last week.” The spacecraft was firing its thrusters to adjust its course. The original video was quite shaky, so I stabilized it for your GIFing pleasure. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Our favorite destroyer of objects, the red hot nickel ball, is back. This time it’s torching artificial sweeteners like Splenda, Sweet N’ Low and Truvia. Splenda and Sweet N’ Low put up honorable fights but essentially caramelizes. Truvia, however, starts shooting out these weird spider web looking things when burned. I wish sugar was used…
I’m glad the History Channel is producing mockumentaries like The Great Martian War. The real documentaries are not much different and science-fiction alternative history lines are always more interesting than our savage and grim historical realities. It’s also very well made. On its 100th anniversary, The Great Martian War tells the story of the catastrophic…
I can’t even begin to imagine how incredible it must be to be an astronaut and see Earth from space like this. It can’t ever get old, right? I mean, I’m amazed every time I see one of these flyby videos and I’m just watching on YouTube. This one, which uses footage from NASA’s Johnson…
Sure, a charcoal grill or a barbecue pit can roast some delicious meat but if you want to up the insane level, I’m not sure anything can top this: a wall of fire made from 30 steel drums welded together. It’s like barbecuing with dragon fire or a volcano or a never ending bomb explosion.…
Sure raising a kid or joining the Peace Corp can be rewarding too but before you do that, maybe try something a little more challenging, like making a chair by hand. Chad Parkinson of The Furniture Joint works with wood for a living and this glimpse of him making a chair is absolutely gorgeous. Parkinson…
If you’re curious how your bones work when you’re doing yoga, Hybrid Medical created this video that shows off what the skeleton is doing in all those poses under an x-ray. The 3D animation was made to be as realistic and as accurate as possible. Hybrid Medical writes: Our goal for this piece was to…
As you can see here, the more the US spends on science, space, and technology, the more people kill themselves by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation. Of course, this is just a spurious correlation: Correlation doesn’t mean causation. Although Nic Cage films causing people to drown in pools is plausible. Source: Center for Disease Control and…
It seems kind of silly to me to make a movie based off of Disneyland’s Tomorrowland but hey, the same sort of idea worked out pretty well for Pirates of the Caribbean. And after seeing the very first teaser of the movie, the movie version of Tomorrowland looks like it’s going to be a lot…
I like Finnian MacManus’ reimagination of the worlds of Dune, the 1965 book by Frank Herbert. Above you can see the main palace in Harakkeen—a renamed city of Arrakeen in an alternative ending where House Atreides loses the war against House Harkonnen. The rest of his work is quite cool too. Finnian MacManus is a…
Spectacular photo by US Marine Corps by Cpl. Owen Kimbrel of flames exploding behind a Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornet at the 2014 Miramar Air Show in California. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I have a hard time believing that some of the sequences in this video are not rendered in a 3D software. They are just impossibly perfect—but yes, they are real. Most of them are fighters like the Mirage, F-16, F-18, F-15—but you can see some bombers, like the B-2 and F-117. Pure airplane porn. SPLOID…
Our Captain America in space, el comanderino Reid Wiseman, keeps making great little Vines. Here’s him demonstrating the refraction properties of a sphere of water in zero gravity: Instant fisheye lens. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
