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If you think it’s just a joke that robots are going to replace humans, it’s not. It’s going to happen. In fact, CGP Grey explains in ‘Humans Need Not Apply’ how it’s already happening around us right now. You might not notice it but you will after you watch how we’re following historical patterns towards…
Simon Ata is a breakdancer based in Melbourne, Australia, and he works hard everyday to stay fit so he can perform properly. Judging from what I see in this video the guy is more than ready. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
If robots ever destroy humanity, I hope I get killed by one of these cake decorator bots. I’ve been trapped in a recursive cake video dimension for the last 30 minutes and now I just want to lie down under one of them and have it decorate my face until I die. Everywhere. While I…
If you were wowed by thestunning version of the Futurama intro inphotorealistic3D, you will be equally amazed by the incredible amount of work that artist Alexy Sakharov put into it using 3ds Max, Nuke, Photoshop and After Effects. The amount of detail that you can barely see in the final product is stunning. SPLOID is…
Cool photo of the M61A2 Vulcan nose cannon in a FA-18E Super Hornet jet fighter taken by it Lieutenant Chris Nigus, Weapons Training Officer with the Strike-Fighter Squadron VFA-27 Royal Maces, based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, in Japan. It looks like the cockpit of an A-Wing jumping into hyperspace. SPLOID is a new blog…
The latest Southern Comfort campaign should be included in the dictionary entry for cool. There are other commercials out there that are also very cool but they don’t depict coolness in the same way these ads do. Here is the newest commercial from the series: Check out my other Southern Comfort favorite ads here and…
It’s obviously not a secret that lighting has the ability to change how a person’s face looks but photographer Sebastian Petrovski wanted to show how dramatic that difference could be in his photo series Perception Is Reality. The photos, which were pointed out by Lost at E Minor, can seem to capture different people. The…
The Creators Project points to a neat little project where famous works of art are re-arranged and transformed into other famous works of art. So the Mona Lisa can become American Gothic and vice versa. It’s like seeing art become a wonderful illusion. The project was done as a sort of programming puzzle at CodeGolf.…
Bungee jumping seems like a much safer alternative when you’re comparing it to the ancient tradition of land diving (or nagol). National Geographic shows how villagers in the South Pacific jump off a rickety 100 foot tower toward the ground with only vines attached to their ankles. Crazy. And even if you can get over…
Meet the closest thing we have to a real life Spider-Man: rock climber Alex Honnold. After scaling mountains and rock walls as high as 1500 feet in nature, Honnold has finally decided that with great power comes great responsibility and has taken in his talents to the city. Watch him climb urban buildings with ease.…
Mario Wienerroither has been pretty busy lately doing his hilarious videoclips without music. This time it’s the turn of the Village People and their hit song YMCA. If you thought the original video was ridiculous, watching these guys dancing without music will make your brain explode. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
These guys are working on the top cap west antenna of the John Hancock Center—a 1,127-foot-high (344 meters) building located in Chicago. I know they are wearing the mandatory security equipment and it’s very unlikely that they could fall, but watching them do their job makes my stomach clench. In case you are wondering what…
I’m still holding out hope for light sabers in the future but with our world’s technological limitations and silly allocation of resources, the most beautiful deadly sword-type weapon we can create without lasers might be this mashup of a lightsaber and katana made by Man At Arms: Reforged. It’s mostly a katana with an intricately…
The focus. The determination. The body control. The complete satisfaction. It all comes together when a dog jumps in the air for a treat. It’s so fun to see, the dog jumps in the air without ever thinking about landing, it’s 100 percent concentrated on the treat. And once it chomps down, that face of…
Cameron Drake create these excellent animated GIFs that reveal how various joints in our bodies bend and fold and work under the all seeing see through eye of the X-ray. Under our skin, we all have the same beautiful machinery. See more of Drake’s work here. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Alfred Hitchcock appeared briefly in the majority of his movies, making that his signature. Morgan T. Rhys edited all those cameos together in a video so all Hitchcock’s fans can enjoy it. His cameos became so popular that Hitchcock decided to make his appearances more obvious and earlier in the film, so people wouldn’t get…
Most animals contract and dilate their pupils depending on the light available around them. Geckos are no exceptionbut unlike other species the difference between those two stages are much more dramatic. They go from having cute round pupils in low light to evil narrow slits when it’s too bright. SPLOID is a new blog about…
When I picture myself scuba diving in an alien ocean—yeah, that thought pops into my mind sometimes—I imagine an underwater world full of neon lights, kaleidoscopic corals, and water plants unfolding in slow motion like the ones in this video. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
These flying machines created by Daniel Agdag make me think of those designed by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 15th century. The difference is that Leonardo based his designs in precise calculations while Daniel builds his spectacular cardboard sculptures guided only by his intuition, with no previous sketching. Daniel Agdad is an Australian based artist.…
If you have never seen the 2005 French movie Les Chevaliers du Ciel (Sky Fighters) and you like aviation or just spectacular cinematography, you should rent it. The movie itself is as bad as Top Gun, but the combat airplane sequences are probably the best ever filmed. Here are its best moments: SPLOID is a…
