Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
When it’s time to colonize space, we will need space miners to provide with the minerals and gases needed to build massive ships and refuel stations across the Solar System. There are serious companies already working on it—and concept designer Cuba Lee has imagined how this would look in moons, asteroids, and gas planets. It’s…
This slow motion video shows how fish actually eat. Instead of moving their whole bodies as most people think, they expand and throw their jaws forward to create a space where water rushes into their mouths to suck in their prey. It’s kind of gross and disgusting—but so damn cool. SPLOID is a new blog…
Imagine that you have the ability to know how many times people lied in their life. Or how many days they will live just by looking at a number displayed on the top of their heads. That’s the premise of this mind-twisting short film by Robert Hloz: Two people with that rare ability meet randomly…
If you have ever experienced going to a music festival and sleeping in a tent you already know how shitty that can be. Well, these Belgian designers came up with a cool looking and comfortable solution for that: Hexagonal sleeping cells each containing a king-size bed. “We thought, why not stack a honeycomb, not for…
Watch this six-year-old roller skater limbo under 39 SUVs—a clearance of about seven inches. Gagan Satish, from India, coasted the 230-foot distance in just 29.8 seconds. The flexible kid has been rollerskating for about three years and practises regularly when he is not at school. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Photographer Martin Bailey captured these gorgeous images of Antarctic ice during a seven week working trip to the continent. As summer temperatures soar it is hard not to see these sublime and moving landscapes in terms of giant slices of ice cream. Martin Bailey is a Tokyo based nature and wildlife photographer. He has a…
Look at that lonely guy, so tiny and fragile on the edge of the fiery Gates of Hell—the Kilauea Volcano’s Halemaumau Crater. His name is Andrew Hara, the photographer who took this amazing self-portrait, which was just featured as photo of the day in National Geographic’s Your Shot. How the hell did he do it?…
We have featured time-lapse videos of objects being sanded down one millimeter at a time before, but this film by Mexican illustrator and animator Simon Gerbaud is the best I’ve ever seen. I would keep watching that shoe GIF forever if there weren’t so many other awesome examples here: SPLOID is a new blog about…
It probably requires a lot of planning and a lot of strategic rope placement and a lot of brass balls but once you’re all the way up there and everything is set, chopping down a tree with a chainsaw looks like crazy amounts of fun. This GoPro footage from the chainsaw’s perspective proves that. The…
Made by Duncan Elms, this video imagines a future where Earth has been ravaged by wars, cyclones, food shortages, destructive weather and horrible humans and turned into areas of uninhabitable zones. And yet, cities would still make bids to host the Olympic Games, even if they’re during a nuclear winter. SPLOID is a new blog…
The infamous Costa Concordia is sailing again after running aground on the island of Giglio, Italy. Francesco Marinari has filmed this drone video as it’s being transported for scrap to Genoa. It’s so eerie and weird. The structure that keeps it afloat makes it look like some kind of Mad Max/Waterworld prop. SPLOID is a…
“The second time I rode into London in an effort to gain some fitness, rather than take the train, ended like this,” says YouTube user cyclejack. “This” being an idiot in a car deciding to ignore him, ramming and sending him and his bicycle into the air. Miraculously, he wasn’t injured, just bruised. I was…
German astronaut Alexander Gerst reports live with this photo of Gaza from the International Space Station. This is his description. “My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel” A sad view indeed—although I have to confess that I can’t distinguish which light flares are normal…
This huge chocolate mill—created by Studio Wieki Somers and chocolatier Rafael Mutter for a retrospective on the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld—reveals intricate geometrical designs as you rotate the sharp metal arm that shaves it one millimeter at time. It cements my conviction that all art should be edible and delicious. I would be content with…
According to the Rated RR guys, this is the most difficult trick in the world: Fire a bullet against a machete and split it in two hitting two targets. They didn’t only do it once—but twice in a row. And then once more, shooting backwards using an iPad as a mirror to aim. SPLOID is…
Ajay Malghan makes a living by playing with food and taking pictures of it. He cuts a thin slice of carrot, kiwi or any other fruit, presses it in between two glass sheets and experiments with light, colors and proportions. The result are these awesome abstract pictures. A short documentary called The Space Within explains…
Italian designer Pietro Russomanno‘s Raceline is the 26-foot-long daughter of a classic Riva boat— one of my favorite vehicle designs—and a classic sports car. If I had to spend a summer in the Mediterranean riviera, this is the vehicle I’d like to have to move from coast town to coast town to eat seafood and…
This photograph of a large school of mobula rays by Eduardo Lopez Negrete is one of the entries for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Keep in mind that these majestic creatures can reach a 17-foot (5.2 meter) wingspan and weigh over a ton. It may look like a nightmare but they are harmless.…
Bill Watterson’s new comic strip originals—born from his collaboration with Stephan Pastis—are now up for sale for the benefit of Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. They published very high resolution scans of the three original uncolored strips so yo can enjoy the finest details of his ink brushwork: This collaboration is something of…
Nemo survived an ordeal in the movie but, according to Greenpeace and UNESCO, he won’t be able to survive human greed: Indian coal giant Adani wants to dredge and dump 3 million cubic meters of sea-floor in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to make way for a new coal terminal. Obviously, Greenpeace is…
