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A living human brain. Looks gross. But think about how amazing this is. You have one of these things inside your head, a mass of organic matter in which billions of connections make you—every memory, everything that ever was in your life is inside this mass. So yes, it may look gross, but it’s freaking…
I love dogs. I love magic tricks. I love sausages. Obviously, I was bound to love this video of dogs reacting to magic flying wieners. I like the fact that some of them get so freaked out at the sight of a delicious treat floating in front of them—but others just don’t give a damn.…
It looks so effortless for him. And not only can freediver David Helderle blow underwater bubble rings as easily as you and I blink, he can control those mini vortexes to make fun designs and spin rings. It’s like Aquaman decided to become an artist or something. FreedivingUAE writes: He can create mini vortexes that…
The NHRA put together this gnarly video compilation of wild rides from the first half of the 2014 season and it’s just nuts. These drag races look a lot more like horizontal rocket launches crossed with the flames of Ghost Rider than the cars you and I drive. The slow motion ones are the best,…
I watched the movie Chef the other day and the amount of food porn neared Jiro-level. The way Jon Favreau ate in that movie made everything look delicious. Here’s a supercut of scenes in movies that are just like that, you’ll see so much happiness in the way the actors eat that you can’t help…
The IXION windowless jet—which makes its interior transparent using display panels that cover most of the cabin—might look like an impossible sci-fi concept but the fact is that we are not very far from this. Check out the video. It’s so cool. The concept airplane interior—created by Technicon Design—uses external cameras to capture a 360-degree…
At last, here’s the video of NASA’s LDSD test—the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator system that will take a new rover to Mars, one even larger than Curiosity. It’s impressive to see the entire system in action, working like clockwork even while the supersonic parachute display failed. Listen to the commentary by Ian Clark explaining everything in…
Ivan Kuznetsov doesn’t care that the world’s highest construction site—atop the 2,073-foot (632-meter) Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building on Earth—is full of ice and it’s slippery as hell. His compatriots did it before him without ice, so he had to best them. Here are more of his adventures for you to scream. Of course…
This video shows how powerful low frequency sounds—blasting at full volume through the insanely powerful speakers of car—can affect vapor clouds. The movement is so unreal and seemingly unnatural that it feels like someone edited a series of jump cuts following the rhythm of the music. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.Join us…
It’s quite interesting to see the back and forth between two creative geniuses like Stanley Kubrick and Saul Bass working on the movie poster of The Shining. It wasn’t an easy one for Bass, thanks to Kubrick’s infamous obsessive perfectionism. The poster went through 300 versions before getting final approval. These are five of the…
It would be hard for Joan Harris—Christina Hendricks’ character in Mad Men—to adapt to the rules of today’s corporate America. She wouldn’t be able drink or smoke at work and new technologies would blow her mind. But sadly, apart from that, some things haven’t changed that much. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.Join…
The first time I saw this image I thought of an inter-dimensional portal of evil sucking in reality. It’s actually the test of the Nammo hybrid rocket engine that will power the Bloodhound. If everything goes as planned, the Bloodhound will be the first supersonic car to reach 1000mph (1,609.34 km/h). In the car there…
That crazy nutter of Colin Furze is at it again with more garage tinkering, this time making 3D shapes out of completely flat metal sheets, using water pressure to inflate them like water balloons—a process called hydroforming. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Meet Brian Jackson, an 11-time Guinness World Record holder who’s probably a mutant with the lungs of a giant. He can make those red hot water rubber bottles explode in 51.98 seconds. Those bottles need 170 pounds of pressure to blow up so yeah, Jackson’s breath is basically superhuman. Jackson says doing one of these…
Watching the fermentation process of beer is a lot like seeing a brown sludge monster grow in strength. It’s not pretty. But then you remember how delicious beer tastes and how wonderful it makes you feel and you forgive it for looking so unsightly. Or at least I did. I think this time lapse is…
I’ve been craving a good burger lately and looking at these fantastic burger pictures from Fat & Furious is not helping me at all. Some of them look absolutely delicious, others look crazy and surreal, and all of them are photoshopped and heavily styled. It doesn’t matter: I would like a bite of every single…
If you don’t know Paolo Nutini,I don’t blame you. I just learned about this British singer when I saw this video of his song Iron Sky. It opens with a hard-to-watch 2-minute silent intro—and then the beautiful music hits contrasting with the lives of pariahs, the mentally insane, the junkies… It knocked me out. Warning:…
The USS Montgomery, the second of the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship made for the United States Navy. Out of the water, it looks like this 127.4-meter (418-foot) this high-speed trimaran (47 knots on sprint!) could have been designed at an Imperial Navy shipyard. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
You would think that, if you take out all the jokes and leave just the plot in American sitcoms, you would end up with something that is not funny at all. And you would be completely right—although the edits of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm still had some solid funny moments. Seinfeld Friends The Office…
This animated short by Nina Paley—in the tradition of the best Monty Python music skits—might not be an orthodox history lesson, but it’s an accurate depiction of the horrible 6,000-year bloodshed in the region of Palestine, with dozens of tribes and nations fighting each other to claim ownership of that land. Here is a summary…
