Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Gerald Donovan and his team made this incredible time lapse ofyesterday’s supermoon:The crown prince of Dubai climbs to the tip of the Burj Khalifa—the tallest building in the world—with an impressive moon in the background. That prince—he is such a bro. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
If there’s one thing cooler than watching fireworks is watching them in reverse. And from a drone it looks even cooler, as shown in this video—shot last Fourth of July with a DJI Phantom Vision 2+ over Decatur, Georgia. Seeing them from the ground is equally mesmerizing: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
A fearless guy flies his Squirrel Aura wingsuit through a waterfall in Switzerland—because jumping in a wingsuit and flying a few feet from a rock wall is not trying hard enough to kill yourself. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I knew traffic in Taiwan was crazy, but this video is even crazier than my worst nightmares. Look at a gazillion mopeds going down a highway ramp. No, this is not a moped race. It’s just normal daily traffic. Unbelievable. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is the House of the Infinite in Cádiz, Spain, designed by architect Alberto Campo Baeza. It looks like the sand actually solidified into the house itself. Simple straight lines, simple use of materials, large windows to watch ocean and make the breeze of the Bahía de Cádiz circulate through its interior. Just beautiful. Images:…
LS3—the son of the scary quadruped robot also known as Big Dog—has been deployed for the first time during the RIMPAC 2014, the multinational maritime war games in and around the Hawaiian Islands. It looks different from the last time we saw it, more like a big ox than a giant dog. The troops who…
Skimboarder Brad Domke headed to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to encounter this insane looking wave—the largest ever surfed on a skimboard and already described as a potential “wave of the year”. Skimboards don’t have fins so this is even more impressive than it looks. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day—with temperatures of 99F (37C)—when bullet-sized hail started strafing the beach while everyone were running for their lives in panic. According to The Siberian Times, a woman’s…
Corn dogs? Not a fan. A corn dog-inspired burger-on-a-stick made of “pickled beef frank and a slice of crispy pork belly, sandwiched between two smash-cooked beef patties, dipped in a jalapeño, whole kernel corn batter, fried, and drizzled with honey”? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This guy put together a medley with what he thinks are the 100 bass lines that every bass player should know. I think that a few should be forever banned and some great ones are missing, but most of them are a spot-on selection. In any case, kudos for his nonstop 13-minute performance. SPLOID is…
Watch a bunch of elephants, giraffes, turtles and ostriches doing extreme human stunts like skydiving, riding roller coasters, walking a tightrope, skateboarding a half pipe and so forth—thanks to the magic of computers, of course. It’s okay, there’s no need to call PETA. The elephants are not real. For an old ad campaign for France…
You would think that you could only do so much with golf trick shots but David Kalb, trick shot extraordinaire, takes it to another level. He rigs his trick shots so they have to be absolutely perfect because they eventually turn into Rube Goldberg machines that can make hot dogs and create flaming watermelon heads.…
I would love to use this Jaguar augmented reality windscreen. It’s like turning your entire driving experience into a video game (I don’t know if that is a good idea or not but it sure looks like fun.) The concept shows optimum racing paths, braking guidance and fastest lap times, as well as virtual cars…
If you have been on the internet for at least a few months, you probably came across a version of the animated GIF above. You may be wondering a) where the hell does this exploding head come from or b) how the hell did they do it. The answer to a) is David Cronenberg’s Scanners—and…
This big black blob that recently appeared off the San Diego coast looks like the fallout from an oil spill, or an undersea plague coming to haunt humans and probably steal their souls. In reality, it’s a massive school of anchovies—harmless enough that people are actually snorkeling through the dark mass of fishies. Apparently the…
I want to move to any of these Villae Minimae—small villas—a collection of five isolated single-family houses perched in beautiful, hard to access places created by theItalian studio LAD. Then I want to become a Bond villain. The projects have in common a provocative and utopian approach. All projects are based on the distortion of…
The smell of flatulence could help avoid cancer,strokes, heart attacks and dementia, according to scientists at Exeter University. Hydrogen sulfide is one of the gases produced by bacteria as it breaks down food in the gut, it is toxic in large doses but in tiny amounts it helps protect cells and fight illness. Professor Matt…
This video gives a very valuable advice.Something that we heard many times before but we keep forgetting: Death can hit you at any given moment so you better enjoy life while it lasts. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Looking at these time-lapse videos of Undulatus asperatus—”a cloud formation proposed as separate cloud classification in 2009″—look like the ocean’s surface in a stormy day as seen from under the water. They also look like those scenes in sci-fi movies when something really bad is coming to kill us all from the sky. Or the…
Photographer and digital retoucher Laure Fauvel produced these charming images of children confronting the monsters in their bedrooms. The creatures that go bump in the night appear to be in retreat and as scary as they look, I actually feel sorry for them facing these tough kids. Laure Fauvel is a photographer and digital retoucher…
