Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Fabian Oefner is a man of many talents—and great patience. Investigator, artist, photographer, his images are always precisely crafted and beautiful. His disintegrating car series are a great example. I just spent 20 minutes exploring them. He explains how he (painstakingly) made them here: The Disintegrating series representing a staggering amount of work- has been…
We all know Beethoven composed most of his music while going deaf. But how is that possible? How can anybody write a musical piece just by imagining sounds inside his head? This video made by TED-Ed explains how: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This short film by French director Loïc Bramoullé displays the coolest spacesuit I’ve ever seen. Not just because its mean range of weapons, but also for its (artificial) intelligence to make decisions that protect its owner—a cute cat that seems a bit out of place—from things like evil alien bees. SPLOID is a new blog…
A 24-year-old Chinese woman recently went to the hospital complaining of dizziness and nausea. She was most likely not prepared for the cause of the discomfort. The otherwise healthy grown woman does not have a cerebellum. Amazing—it’s the ninth case in medical history. That’s right. The cerebellum is a fairly sizable part of the brain—the…
As things get hotter between Russia and NATO, Putin is waving his nuclear dick around. Russia plans to conduct massive nuclear war maneuvers. Yesterday it successfully tested its new Bulava (“Mace”) submarine launched nuclear missile,hitting its target with complete accuracy with its dummy warheads. The Red Fleet’s Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said that it blasted…
Droga5 art director Kevin Weir has lots of cool work in his portfolio, like his Flux Machine, a Tumblr in which he turns old photographs into nightmares thanks to some carefully crafted animation—sometimes crazy, sometimes subtle, always disturbing. Kevin Weir grew up in the woods of rural upstate New York, just outside of Binghamton. He…
These cool alien-looking monsters—created by French photographer Nicolas Rivals—are made by taking long exposure photographs of spinning molten metal. Nicolas calls them Light Roscharch, like the famous psychology test. I see alien monster faces. What do you see? Nicolas Rivals is a French photographer based in Paris. He is a member of the Prisme Noir…
I don’t where people come up with the ideas to do these things sober but if you were ever wondering what the the Guinness World Record for world’s longest golf club was, the answer is 14-feet 5-inches. Karsten Maas from Denmark used the club to drive the ball about 180 yards. And look absolutely ridiculous…
It’s always fun to see the chain reaction of Rube Goldberg machines and how one action can cascade into a whole bunch of things happening. This one, from an ad for Japanese technology company au, is particularly cool because it’s just powered by light and lens and optics. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Here it is. The real thing. Batman’s next ride. We saw blurry images of what looked like the new Batmobile earlier today but it wasn’t official until now. Zack Snyder, director of Batman v. Superman, just tweeted out this official image of the upcoming Batmobile and it’s crazy. This angle makes the new Batmobile look…
Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft reports on the new all black burger at Burger King Japan, a sandwich with black buns, black sauce, and black cheese darker than a black hole (seriously, the cheese is extremely black.) It looks kind of gross—but I really want to try it. How is this black cheese so dark, you ask?…
Once again, the Universe amazes me with a never-before-seen display of color and shapes that defies belief. You are looking at Puppis A,a supernova remnant that is 7,000 light years away and is 10 light years across (!) And yet it looks like microscopic view of a coral here on Earth. Amazingly beautiful. Capture by…
Who needs big budgets for blockbuster movies when you can just pull generic stock footage to hilariously recreate all the key scenes? It’s beautiful, really. Dissolve made this ad to promote their stock footage library and came up with a bunch of popular movies: The Matrix, Forrest Gump, Lion King and so on. There are…
Not only the US military want to make an Iron Man suit, they also want to give the soldiers the same self-healing powers of the Wolverine, the Marvel superhero that can accelerate the healing of injuries and chronic diseases. DARPA calls the project ElectRx. Their description is fascinating. ElectRx (pronounced “electrics”) aims to develop new,…
Adult Swim has new promotional shorts, and they are fantastically weird. This one is Fab Sauce, a film about a sauce so good that it makes every object, plant, and animal irresistibly delicious. Humans too. John Carpenter should do a movie based on this. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
Marine biologists from the University of Copenhagen have discovered two new species that “defy all existing classifications of life.” They are rather cute and pretty—like some monsters from a Mario Bros. game. Found in the sea southeast of Australia, the research paper published in PLOS ONE describes two asymmetrical mushroom shaped beings found at a…
Ukrainian-based photographer and mountain enthusiast OlegGrigoryev tooka picture of the view from his tent every morning of his trip to the Fann Mountains, Tajikistan. The resulting photographic reportage is beautiful—and it makes me terribly jealous. These photos were taken in August, 2014 at the Fann Mountains, Tajikistan. I love to travel, especially to the mountains.…
According to Slashfilm, these areimages of the new Batmobile to be featured in Batman v Superman. They seem to match the teaser from director Zack Snyder, but they feel a bit computer generated to me. It may be the low light conditions of the shot, supposedly taken during film in in Detroit. Here’s the original…
Baristas at Starbucks are widely known for being unable to spell names correctly. Why? Who knows. But New York City-based comedian Paul Gale has a funny theory about it. (Spoiler: They’re fucking with us.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Yikes. Here’s an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman’s body until it’s unrecognizable. It’s terrifying, to be honest. And it’s something you see a lot in celebrity culture where beautiful bodies are turned into monsters in the quest for perfection. NSFW. The video, called Supervenus by Frederic Doazan,…
