Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Usually when you think of things that take your breath away, you don’t think of sounds. It’s the spectacular view or the amazing feeling or the perfect performance. But this video that highlights the sound of paragliding is pretty breathtaking. I closed my eyes and listened and felt the nature around me. I kind of…
Dan Gentile of Thrillist has done God’s work. He decided to take it upon himself to answer a question anyone who has ever sat on a couch for a long period of time has wondered: How many chips are actually in a bag of chips? And which type of chips has more full chips vs…
There have probably been mountain bike rides that have been more intense than Danny Macaskill’s tour through the Isle of Skye in Scotland and perhaps there have been a few rides slightly more beautiful of his ride on the Cuillin Ridgeline but I can’t imagine any feeling more epic than this. It is stunning. To…
What happens when the crude artwork you draw in Photoshop becomes sentient and gains superpowers and starts darting across your desktop screen with weapons? A whole lot of desktop destruction. Even worse, the stick figure will draw goons to help them ruin your computer forever. But it’ll be fun to see. It’s been a while…
I know that Google has a Music Timeline, but it’s horrendous. This one made by Atracktion is much prettier. And it’s interactive too, so go an enjoy it here. Rock, pop, hiphop, and electronic look equally distributed now. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Play. Play. Play. Play. Play. Play. Play. I don’t know what’s going on, but I can’t get enough of this Tostitos lid spinning around under the water and the satisfying sound it produces. Just watch the video and listen. Thanks for ruining my life, Lindsay McCutcheon. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
We saw the awesome photos and now we got the video: Witness the F-22 Raptor refueling somewhere over the Arabian Peninsula en route to ISIS targets in Syria, captured from a KC-135 tanker on September 27, 2014. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The S-97 Raider—Sikorsky new attack helicopter—is out and it is not only gorgeous. It’s absolutely badass. It is based in the same technology as their X2 technology demonstrator, which broke the world helicopter speed record in 2010: 260 knots—that’s 299.2mph (481.5km/h) vs the 172mph of conventional helicopters. According to Sikorsky’s Mike Miller, it “is an…
James R A Davenport grabbed all the book covers of the top 10 best selling books from 2000 to 2012, according to USA Today. Then he put all of them together (1,300 books) in one giant graphic. What he discovered is quite interesting: There is a TON of fascinating structure within this visualization. Early on,…
NPR’s Planet Money has a feature on household inequality in the United States shown in graphics. The graphic above on household income over the last 40 years is particularly striking: After adjusting to inflation, you can see that the lowest incomes have barely moved. In fact, they went down. By contrast, the top layers of…
Michael Kelleyis a Los Angeles-based architectural photographer and aviation lover who often catches himself “at 2am looking up articles on aviation” (I know that feeling.)So when the opportunity came to recreate the famous Pan Am way-of-fly using a vintage 747, he jumped right in.His new photos are perfect. From its founding in the 1920s to…
We share the planet with the most awesome creatures, sometimes so incredibly fantastic that they seem unreal—beautiful alien monsters from our worst nightmares and dreams. Dean Chiang sent in this cool photo of a sea anemone to prove this point. When I go diving I never get tired of looking at them. SPLOID is a…
If you think about it, water is a magical substance of infinite power and benefits, essential for the existence of all the species in the planet. I’ve never seen that concept expressed more powerfully than in this awesome TV commercial. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Nobody seems to know why, but it’s a fact that the best bagels in the world are made in New York. This vintage video—restored by the Brooklyn Public Library—pays homage to all those guys who wake up early everyday to perpetuate the art of fresh handmade bagels. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
SBTRKT—a music project created by Aaron Jerome—has a new single called New Dorp, New York. The music video is a cool animation created by Amsterdam-based production company PostPanic: A creepy weasel-like creature wanders around an equally creepy city hunting for prey. SBTRKT—pronounced subtract—is the name of the project led by London-based musician Aaron Jerome. SBTRKT…
Whoa. This is crazy. A motorcyclist jumped off a ramp and missed his grab of the motorcycle seat for the superman seat grab trick and ended up spinning out of control in the air. I can’t imagine the sinking feeling of grabbing nothing, though I guess in this case, it’d be more of a flying…
Though Alton Brown taught us how to simply make our own delicious peanut butter at home, sometimes you just crave that store bought goop that reminds you of your childhood. Here’s how that brown spread is made. I kind of wish I could skip the jar and just have a peanut butter on tap at…
David Fincher is one of the best directors in Hollywood and if you disagree, you need new eyeballs. Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting shows how it’s not what Fincher does in his movies that make him special, but what he doesn’t do. Fincher’s talent and skills are incredible but it’s his restraint that…
Taiga is “a free project management platform for startups, developers, and designers.” After being mentioned by Hacker News their servers got blasted with traffic, which they turned into this cool visualization that it like a game of Pong played by a zillion players against one computer. Each little “ball” is a request to the server…
The only thing that I think that doesn’t look ‘human’ about Ed, this computer generated human head designed by Chris Jones using Lightwave, Sculptris and Krita, is his ears. Oh and how he doesn’t have a body. But everything else is pretty perfect: the oil and bumps on his face, the wrinkles, I can even…
