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It’s impossible to know why this cute dog is climbing all over a speeding truck and riding on top of the cab in the middle of a highway. He looks happy to me, although I still can’t believe my eyes. Good god please don’t slam on the breaks! It seems that this may be in…
This “Voltron” stealth bomber seems out of a science fiction movie, but it’s one of the aircraft concepts that military powerhouse BAE Systems is working on: A single bomber/drone would fly as one from the home base, then divide into three airplanes to execute different tasks in the same area and reassemble to return to…
26-year-old Brad O’Neil wanted to beat a new “Hey look I can do something really stupid that will potentially kill my neck” record, so he used a 100-foot-long, 60-foot-high ramp to jump into the air using his bike, only to jump off the bike at the highest point using a parachute. SPLOID is a new…
YouTube user iZHarms made this awesome fireworks machine-gun using with five AK-180—a type of repeating roman candles—for a total of 900 shots. If this is not the best project you can do this summer, I don’t know what is. Last year he made this mini gun: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
This is the work of young concept artist Seokin Chung,just out of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. I like his style—not only the aesthetics of his designs but his rough, simple, but very effective brushwork. Seokin Chung is a freelance concept artist based in Los Angeles. Someone should hire this kid.…
The Star Wars vs Star Treknerdbate is as old as the Universe itself and it’s been way too long since the last time we had it. Here’s an old video of a classic battle between Imperial Forces and the Enterprise over the skies of San Francisco to start the fire. Who would win a battle…
Brett Domino returns with another quick guide to making hit pop songs. Whilst the first part was all about the instrumental hook, this one is about the vocals. Most of the techniques Brett introduces here are real and are actually used by big pop producers. No wonder so many songs sound the same. SPLOID is…
Inspired by modern architecture, isometric video games and sci-fi literature, this beautiful animation from artist Fabrice Le Nezet follows some tiny people in an epic journey. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
An artist metamorphosed three contortionists into animals using some incredibly realistic body painting. She created three different detailed designs including a tarantula, a giraffe and a seahorse. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Watch professional acrobat Greg Roe leap, somersault and plunge head first from 180-foot crane—the equivalent of 25 stories—landing at almost 100 miles per hour on a giant airbag. While it looks cool, it is not the most insane jump of its kind. Check this one out, from 342 feet in 1998: SPLOID is a new…
This is like a scene from X-Men: A man puts his hand into a jar seemingly full of water. Instantly, ice starts growing around it despite the fact that the liquid is warm, expanding until all the content is solid, with the texture of ice cream. What is this sorcery? It’s something called hot ice.…
The only thing bad about eating ice cream during the summer is how fast the frozen deliciousness melts. After two minutes, it’s dripping onto your elbows and your forearm is sticky for the rest of the day. No one likes melted ice cream. That’s why it’s so bizarre that watching ice cream melt in this…
After enjoying a tiny burrito two months ago, tiny hamster just went to a birthday party for his prickly friend tiny porcupine. Like most human birthday parties, the miniature animals were served birthday cakes. It seemed like tiny hamster enjoyed his cake more than tiny porcupine though. The Internet is an absurd place and I…
By now, we know that Game of Thrones uses a heavy VFX hand when it comes to building the world of Westeros but it’s still amazing how real their visual effects can make it look. That’s because pretty much everything is fake. Seriously. Anything far off in the distance or people standing around or flags…
Sometimes NASA comes up with incredibly complex solutions to extremely complex problems. Other times they come up with the simplest ones. And then there’s the case of how to test the stability of an entire Saturn V rocket, which is what you can see in this hilarious video from 1966. On October 14, 1966, a…
When MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte says that humans will be able to learn an entire language by eating a pill, you better listen. In this new TED Talk, Negroponte shows all the times he was right predicting the future in the 1970s and 1980s even while people laughed at him. Here’s what he…
I want someone to do these stop-motion videos of objects being sanded down one layer at a time using every solid thing in existence. They are like destructive magnetic resonance scans. So cool. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
A new and final extended trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy is out in the UK, full of Rocket Raccoon, new scene peeks, and new characters in this seemingly-ever-expanding space opera. The soundtrack—full of classics including David Bowie’s Moonage Dream—is also available for stream in Spotify. Check it out. People, these trailers keep increasing in…
Yugo Nakamura is one of the most famous digital designers in the world. In his latest project, The Origin of the Sound of the Rain, he wanted to prove that a single drop of water sampled and reproduced a million times would actually sound like rain. And it really does. For his experiment he used…
This “flow-motion” hyperlapse by photographer Rob Whitworth uses 26,014 photos taken over 363 hours of work in total. Impressive work. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
