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That old saying kids don’t come with instructions isn’t true anymore. Now there’s more information about kids than ever. Jun Iwakawa gathered some of that knowledge, plus his own experience as a first-time father, and put together this cool animated quick guide to caring for a newborn baby. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Who the hell is Chet Faker, you ask? I didn’t know until I came across the video for the first single of his first album, Built on Glass. The song is called Gold and it’s officially going straight into Sploid’s soundtrack—yes, there’s one. We just started it. And I’m the DJ and I’m going to…
For the first time, the US Navy is showing how its manned and unmanned jets can seamlessly work together aboard its aircraft carriers. This video filmed on the supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt shows a manned F-18 and an unmanned X-47B taking off one right after the other, like any other jets would do. SPLOID is…
Its design reminds me of the B-Wing but the gyroptère—or monocopter—is even weirder than the beloved starfighter from Star Wars. It had a single blade—the long wing you can see in white—which rotated to lift it to the skies. Try to picture that, because I really couldn’t until I saw this video: Unlike this model,…
I don’t know much about Halo 5: Guardians but, looking at the scale and detail of these new environment concepts, I know that I would really like to play it. Give me an Oculus Rift and I will get lost in those city streets forever. This one is from earlier this year, but worth reposting…
The new Star Wars hardware keeps trickling out. This is the new stormtrooper helmet, an updated model that looks way more modern but also less menacing than the original one. The left one is an actual unit in a warehouse. The right one is a render. They look nice but I have a question for…
Every time I see a new image of the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, I just get lost searching through all the detail, marveling at the variation of textures, and mostly watching in awe thinking about the chain of events that took the spaceship Rosetta to where it is today, 500 million miles from Earth. From NASA: In…
Nike has created this huge touch-sensitive LCD basketball court for a training session with Kobe Bryant. The court has built-in motion sensors that track every player’s movements individually. It can also display training exercises for them to follow and show statistics on performance. Check out the amazing video. The space—located in Shanghai, China—is called the…
Felix Deimann—a motion designer based in Dortmund, Germany—created this awesome video that captures the motion of famous olympic athletes like Nadia Comăneci, Michael Phelps, the US basketball Dream Team and Usain Bolt, turning it into a continuous flow of beautiful abstract shapes. This is Deimann’s thesis project: Movements of famous Olympians where digitalised into 3D…
Even while it is all science-fiction, there are science mechanisms that can explain some superheroes. Stanford University biologist Sebastian Alvarado talks about the genetic transformations that made the Incredible Hulk and Captain America acquire their trademark superpowers. The Incredible Hulk Captain America All this said, the fact that there are mechanisms that explain these superheroes…
This short film created by former Pixar animator Adam Wood is so good that Adam McKay and Will Ferrell will be producing a movie based on it. It tells the story of a clumsy janitor at a museum who accidentally finds himself inside the sophisticated, out-of-control armor of a famous supervillain. They are aiming for…
Though CGI may be overused in some movies and poorly executed in more, some visual masterpieces have relied on the fantastic tool to create beautiful worlds that push the possibilities of our imagination. Here’s Watch Mojo’s list of the 10 most visually striking movies that are filled with CGI. Gravity Avatar The Lord of the…
Aside from going through security and lugging around your carry on and rushing to the gate and avoiding human swarms, airplanes are magical places. Okay, maybe not. But there’s beauty in how they operate. Just watch this ballet of airplanes at Shanghai’s airport. It’s like seeing man made shooting stars. Or a light dance with…
Here’s video from Top Gear showing the Stig making a 300 foot bungee jump while strapped inside a F1 car. It’s exhilarating and completely nuts but must have been so ridiculously fun to do. Sometimes, just bungee jumping or just driving an F1 car isn’t enough. You gotta do both at the same time. SPLOID…
Byron Essert and Alex Tongue are professional descent skateboarders. Only someone who devotes his life to this sport could have the skills—and probably the balls—to successfully get to the end of this crazy road in the Alps, in one piece. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Thomas Leveritt asked random people on the street to pose in front of his ultraviolet camera to show them how sun really affects their skin. It’s amazing how much we change. When we are kids our skin looks spotless, but as we grow older the exposure to sunlight ages it and invisible freckles start appearing…
This is so ridiculous that it’s kind of fun. Maymo, the lemon beagle in the video, is so great at balancing things on his head that he can wear 100 different kinds of fruits and vegetables as hats. The more color, the better. Maymo’s YouTube channel writes: Cute Dog Maymo balances 100 different fruits &…
Here’s how Charles Schulz, the trailblazing cartoonist who created Peanuts, drew Charlie Brown. I love his sure strokes and how he builds out the character but most importantly, I love how he’s done in less than half a minute. The Peanuts channel also has other videos of other artists drawing other Peanuts characters. This one…
We can trace the world’s obsession with curvaceous humanoids like Kim Kardashian and mannequin dolls named after cities and hotel chains back to the first documentary ever made: Nanook of the North. It was a documentary that faked the life of eskimos to entertain people. Does that sound familiar? Why yes of course. That’s basically…
It’s like watching an orchestra. One arm of the machine maintains a gentle yet precise grip on the condom, swooping down and up on the metal rod. Another brushes the rubber while the machine in the back sucks it back in for packaging. It’s a never ending cycle. One day we will make a How…
