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The name of this home perched on the cliffs of Zapallar, Chile, is the Catch the Views House. If it was mine, I would rename it The Dream. Created by LAND Arquitectos, they said it was designed to “catch as many views as possible.” They succeeded. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Until yesterday, every physicist was laughing at this engine and its inventor, Roger Shawyer. It’s called the EmDrive and everyone said it was impossible because it goes against classical mechanics. But the fact is that the quantum vacuum plasma thruster works and scientists can’t explain why. Shawyer’s engine is extremely light and simple. It provides…
Love is tough as an adult but, remember when you were a young teen dreaming about that person at school or in your building, the one who never paid attention to you? That’s the case of the young man in Paper Planes—a sweet short film created by London-based Jamie Childs—and his paper plane love notes.…
Antonio Basoli was an Italian artist that lived between the 18th and the 19th century working mostly in Bologna. Among other things, he created these beautiful architectural alphabet engravings called Alfabeto Pittorico. I wish there was a place called Alphabet City* where all these buildings were real. Letter J doesn’t exist in the Italian alphabet,…
When I first saw this x-ray photo I thought it was some frame from a sci-fi movie but I was wrong. It’s actually the embryo of a bat, from the Society Française de Biologie Développment. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Witness the power of water, carrying boulders of all sizes in this impressive video filmed at the Illgraben-Bhutan Bridge, in Switzerland. The cause of this flash flood phenomenon is the massive erosion, which apparently is getting bigger every year and has become a tourist attraction. This video is from the last flash flood. Erosion caused…
Photographer Aaron Huey, who is on assignment for National Geographic, recently shared a picture of a frighteningly deep hole on the Lower Ruth Glacier. The only thing stopping people from plummeting down the 1000 feet drop into the ground is a sheet of ice. One crack, though. Huey wrote: Staring down what could be a…
You’re looking at a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector in action, the mother and father of all flamethrowers, capable of torching everything as far as 100 to 130 feet away (30 to 40 meters.) They were deployed for the first time in World War I by the British Army, and apparently they were quite effective.…
It’s extremely peaceful to watch someone focus in and make something with their bare hands. The process is always beautiful, taking materials such as the beaver felt fabric and molding it into something usable, like a hat. It’s almost like seeing art. I don’t know why you have set it on fire but it sure…
Wandering through the bitfields, I just came across this 1995 photograph of Michael Gernhardt floating 200-miles over the Earth on a six-hour spacewalk. I zoomed in and looked in awe for a couple of minutes, pondering the chain of events, the Herculean effort that put and kept this man alive in space. Just look at…
You already have to be a little loony to ski barefoot so I don’t even know what to consider these guys who strapped themselves behind an airplane and ripped up the water with their bare feet. Awesome? Yeah, probably. They even jumped off a ramp barefoot! Devin Super Tramp shows us how much fun you…
Yesterday, photographer Mike Miley took his Canon 7D to the Oshkosh Air Show in Wisconsin, and holy crap, did he get some good shots. Chief among them is a jaw-dropping shot of two planes dancing around an explosion of Michael Bay-proportions. Holy crap. I can’t even imagine what the performance must’ve been like in real…
Back in the 1920s, a group of Soviet psychiatrists discovered that film editing manipulates not only our sense of space and time but also our emotions. That’s why editing is the magic sauce that brings a film to life—or kills it. But how is this possible? How did it come to be? This video tells…
If a couple of years ago everything was about zombies, now it’s drones. Drones delivering pizza, drones filming fireworks, and even drones taking selfies. And of course drones spying you. And killing people. This ad shows a drone hunter taking care of those flying bastards. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
If you mute the obnoxious soundtrack, this video of some guys doing some trick baseball shots in the desert is pretty cool. The one of the baseball going through the car in motion is the best. This is how it was filmed: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is the story of two people that are so different that they are meant to be together. He is the unluckiest guy on earth, everything he tries ends up badly. And she is the exact opposite. As I said, the perfect couple—for a romantic story. A pitch-perfect animation short by Mike Bidinger and Michelle…
Ronnie Goodman is not your usual runner. He trains hard every day on the streets of San Francisco for a couple of reasons. One is to raise funds for a charity called The Hospitality House, and the other, well, I will let you guys watch it to figure it out. But it’s truly unexpected and…
The barrel never ends, or at least that’s what it feels like. When you think it’s finally going to come crashing down, surfer Benji Brand goes through another water tunnel and keeps going and going. It’s like a never ending wave where you can see everything spin around you and you never have to stop.…
Ethan Swanson, the lunatic making this ridiculous roof jump, is a professional stunt man, so he sees life differently than the rest of us. Where normal humans see buildings and houses and stairs, Swanson sees a playground. This jump, which starts from the top of a building and ends on stairs, is just epic. I…
Cool image of “pilots and plane captains make preparations for flight on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington” by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Everett Allen. The F-18s here reminds me of the Vipers MkVII because of the photo angle and color. I’m glad we have these guys ready for when the…
