Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
This is the PL-01 concept tank, a three-crew 35-ton tank that can turn itself invisible to infrared missiles thanks to a mesh of thermal tiles that change their temperature to match the environment. Oh, and it looks straight out of the movie Tron. https://jalopnik.com/is-polands-stealthy-pl-01-the-tank-of-the-future-1554395391
It may seem like the stuff from spy and superhero movies but scientists have created “the first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum” which, according to researchers at the University of Michigan, can be made so thin that it can be easily stacked on night vision contact lenses. Back in 2011…
Technology is great but, when it comes to awesome, nothing can beat nature. Just look at Duncan Lou Who, the famous boxer who got his two back legs amputated because of a genetic malformation. He learned to walk with his two arms—and this video shows he’s now running faster than ever. None of this video…
I have to confess I know little about Sydney but—judging by this tilt-shift time-lapse short by Filippo Rivetti—it looks like a perfect city with nice architecture and beautiful beaches. I wish I were there right now. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Gravity is a pen and pad that allows to sketch in 3D space using augmented reality. The cool patent-pending system hardware and software system has gone through several working prototypes and now they are looking to start manufacturing. Check out the video—it’s pretty cool. Gravity’s creators—a group of four Innovation Design Engineering students of the…
University of Yale’s researchers have extracted faces from human brain activity with shocking accuracy—an incredible feat that gets us one step closer to record brain videos after a UC Berkeley team reconstructed brains’ visions into digital video back in 2011. According to one of the paper authors—professor of psychology, cognitive science and neurobiology Marvin Chun—”it…
Short poem for the bloody hairy frogfish: Oh how cute, the hairy frogfish. Walks around, the mighty sea. Check him out, he chomps some fresh dish. What a bastard, you must agree. A video by Jose Lachat that won the “Prix de ‘l Insolite” (the prize of the unusual) at the Festival Mondial de l’Image…
Without a doubt, cars are the most popular of all cutaway illustrations, so they couldn’t be absent from our cutaway series. Here you have a collection of 28 rare vintage drawings, some of them crafted by some of the greatest cutaway artists in the business. Martini Porsche 935, 1976, Image: Bonhams Martini Porsche 936 Sportwagenweltmeister…
At 2,197 meters (7,208 feet) the Krubera cave is the deepest on Earth. Located in the Arabika Massif, of the Western Caucasus in Abkhazia, Georgia, it extends for 13.432 kilometers (8,346 miles.) I would love to get inside, but I know the fear would paralyze me. I love to go through its complete (so far)…
I really love this animation of Joseph Gordon Levitt, perfectly rotoscoped in 89 frames by Carli Ihde, a 22-year-old published comic book artist, illustrator, and graphic designer with a great style. So much that I want to see an entire short movie done in this style. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Joanne Milne has not heard a single word, bird chirp or music note for 39 years. Four weeks ago, she got electronic cochlear implants. This is the exact moment when she hears for the first time and starts to cry overwhelmed by the feeling and emotion. I don’t blame her! I felt overwhelmed and teared…
I’m not completely confident I know entirely what’s going on in this CG animation but I like it. Oh, there’s 3D nudity, so if your precious eyes can’t take that, well, sorry. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Everyday objects like keys and forks and spoons and brooms and umbrellas and so forth are always designed with usability in mind. You use them everyday so they better be easy to use, right? But what if you re-designed them to make them annoying and uncomfortable to use? They’d still technically be useful objects but…
Science, man. An international team of scientists have made a major breakthrough in synthetic biology. For the first time ever, they were able to insert a man-made, custom-built chromosome into brewer’s yeast to not only create a life form but one that also passes down its man-made genes to its offspring. We’re closer to creating…
Defense technology blog Ares reports on a mysterious flying object—most certainly a military classified aircraft—flying over the skies of Amarillo, Texas, on March 10. Aviation Week’s defense expert Bill Sweetman says this is unprecedented but he’s convinced it’s real. Images by Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett Three of us here—myself, Graham Warwick and Guy Norris—concur…
More music today: Listen to the Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW playing 43 cartoon themes in 4 minutes and 33 seconds. https://roadtrippers.kinja.com/coolest-symphony-ever-performs-an-awesome-mashup-of-43-1553109236
Seriously people, you must watch Jelani Eddington’s incredible rendition of the Main Title from the Star Wars Symphonic Suite on a Sanfilippo Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. It starts slow but it gets pretty crazy after a while. And the end—holy crap that end. Is he playing in the Death Star or what? The organ is…
These are the fantastic worlds and cities of Christian Lorenz Scheurer, an artist whose latest work include Thor 2 and Man of Steel. His work is beautiful, his architecture very organic and evocative. But without further ado, please feast your eyes upon his art. Asgard Athens and Xerxes’ palace Krypton Sculpture work Futuristic cities Mansion…
The official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie trailer is out. You can see how the new turtles look—gritty and gigantic—in detail, as well as Megan Fox and Will Arnett. Will Michael Bay destroy your childhood dreams once again, like he did with Transformers? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I don’t want to jinx this but it seems the sun may be here to stay at last. NASA seems to agree, because they have released this compilation video of all the winter storms as seen from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-East satellite. I hate you winter. You won’t be missed. SPLOID is…
