Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
All this lonely robot wants is for someone to play with—but he doesn’t seem to have much luck. You’ll feel bad for the poor adorable robot until you see the film’s shocking final twist. It starts off feeling a little like Wall-E. The robot, L3.0, moves around a deserted world going about its business and…
Continuing his fantastic series of macro shots of the eyes of animals, here is Suren Manvelyan’s Animal Eyes 3. The close up shots of the fish and reptiles and other animals in this series look positively alien when seen up close. I thought they were artist’s rendering of deep space planets from a sci-fi movie.…
Here is Alan Holland performing his craft: woodturning. He takes a big chunk of wood, spins it on a lathe and shaves and cuts it down into something much more detailed. It’s painstaking work but it looks absolutely rewarding. Getting to the finished product is like discovering something that was hidden underneath. Phil Holland, the…
Mount Hua is a picturesque mountain that stretches 7000 feet into the sky in China with a plank walk that’s absolutely terrifying even with a harness on. So naturally, Mark Laurence decided to remove his harness and take a stresful stroll on the impossibly narrow path. Watching this makes me want to cry. SPLOID is…
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4,268 x 5,690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. The last update For real this time:…
Our friends of In Saturn’s Rings have a new teaser for their incoming 4K IMAX grand tour of the Universe, made using millions of high definition photographs taken by telescopes and spacecraft. There are no 3D models in these videos. Just photos, animated by 67 volunteers from all over the world. According to Val Klavans,…
Jason Paul and his team show their parkour skills in this cool set up that looks like a real-life 8-bit video game. Watching this I started thinking on Mario. He is not an overweight plumber would have enough stamina to survive a run in this scenery—not even with the help of magic mushrooms. SPLOID is…
I can’t have enough futuristic spaceships and cities—and Dmitry Vishnevsky is pretty good at creating these postcards from places that never were or haven’t been yet. Dmitry Vishnevsky is a concept artist and illustrator based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. You can follow his work on Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and ArtStation. This is part of a…
Adolescent delinquency is directly linked to verbal child abuse. That’s why the Center for Psychological Research in Shenyang, China, made this PSA to raise awareness about this problem, transforming distressing words into deadly weapons. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
It’s kind of funny how our favorite tiny hamster looks exactly like Kobayashi, the famous competitive eater, while mowing down hot dogs. They’re using the same method! The hamster looks much cuter though. Much cuter. Don’t worry, the tiny hamster was fed healthy mini dogs made out of grapes, dates and carrots. Kobayashi had to…
If you think about it, ball pits are gross cesspools that hide violent bits of static charges and virulent diseases that smell like melting plastic. They are not fun. But that’s because adults are not fun. For kids, there are few places better. This 5000 balloon pit is like a ball pit for kids, but…
If you somehow missed the Harry Potter boat and wanted to read all the books now, you’d have to flip through 4109 pages spread across 7 books. Or if you just want to catch up with the Harry Potter movies instead, you’d have to sit and stare for 19 hours and 38 minutes for all…
Even though I know that this video was made by the visual effects experts of Black Sheep Films and isn’t real, I can’t help but feel queasy when I watch it. The rotoscoping is just so well done. I gasp as I see the cyclist cross the road, I churn when the pedestrian decides to…
It’s hard to understand why Canadian adventurer Bruce Kirkby decided to go over the 93 miles that separate Vancouver from Victoria on an inflatable standup paddleboard. Why do humans sign into such extreme, dangerous and exhausting adventures? This award-winning short documentary digs into that question. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
This animal selfie compilation got me thinking: If the courts say these photos can’t be owned by humans because they are taken by animals, shouldn’t there be some kind of international legal mechanism to make the people who use the photos pay some money to protect each species? Makes sense to me. Above: My dog…
Back in 2013, Lorraine Loots started her 365 Paintings for Ants—one delicate, tiny beautiful painting for each of the 365 days of the year. As you can see in this video and photos of her work, they are really neat and precious. Lorraine Loots makes her beautiful miniature paintings in in Cape Town, South Africa.…
Chris Wood loves glass. So much she’s dedicating her life to the study of its properties, creating these beautiful installations in which light and color become a quasi-three-dimensional object. Chris Wood is a designer and artist interesedt in light and the physical and visual qualities of glass. She studied Glass at the Royal College of…
One of the walls of the Ham Yard Hotel, in London, displays this amazingly cool wall clock composed by 135 traditional clocks. The hands are synchronized to display not only time but also beautiful geometric shapes. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The deepest pool in the world is called Y40 and is located inside the Hotel Terme Millepini, in Italy. It contains 4300 cubic meters of thermal water at a temperature of between 89-93F (32-34C) and it’s impressively deep, 131 feet deep (40 meters.) The pool is conceived for training apnea and scuba diving. This graphic…
Surprisingly enough for a space junkie like me, I’ve never seen this image of the MIR—the Soviet space station that was destroyed on reentry on 2001 after 5,519 days in orbit. The photo was taken from the space shuttle Atlantis on the mission STS-71, docked in the photo below. What an amazing view. SPLOID is…
