Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
I can’t begin to imagine the terror of this man trapped on a top floor terrace of a building on a 5 alarm fire. Thankfully, Houston’s firefighters were able to rescue him on time. [Thanks Matt Hardigree!] SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Game of Thrones Season 4 is coming in two weeks and everyone is itching to see [SPOILER] die a horrible dead. Please allow me to entertain you with this wonderful auto-tuned music video that will placate your thirst like Dragonade for at least two minutes. SPOILER ALERT: Don’t watch if you haven’t completed the first…
The only bad thing about this paragliding flight over the Great Wall of China is that it is way too short. I would love to do the entire thing like this guy. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
A controlled burn at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, Colorado turns terrifying when a dust devil sucked in the fire. I don’t how these firefighters and forest service workers keep their cool when a swirling mass of fire comes charging their way. I would be running and screaming and then not screaming so that…
I knew I was going to freak out when I clicked on this video of a man stuck in The Tube, a long thin passage in the Lost Johns’ Cave—a large cave system on Leck Fell, Lancashire, England—as the water pours in and he panics. Fortunately, he escaped at the end. Note to self: Don’t…
The pilot in this twisting and turning plane must be ridiculously disciplined, have palms that never sweat, a personality that never stresses and big brass ones because that’s what it takes to land a plane in such shit weather. The propeller plane landed on the island of Flores in the Azores. Seeing things like this…
Photos of lightning taken from space may be a dime a dozen, but sometimes there are images that are truly extraordinary. Like this one, taken by the Expedition 26 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 180 millimeter lens. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
At one kilometer, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower will be the tallest skyscraper in the world. A new construction date has been announced, but there’s still a lot of questions around this structure. https://gizmodo.com/theyre-finally-building-the-worlds-new-tallest-tower-1550515846
A super volcano that creates a toxic ash cloud covering Earth. Gamma ray explosions. Shifting of magnetic fields. The robots. The bees. And even ourselves. If you want to give yourself a little scare, watch this video on the 10 things that could wipe out life on Earth. The idea of mass extinctions is riveting…
You can have your iPhones and iPads and Androids and laptops and smart watches and Google Glass and fitness trackers and wearables. Have it. Take it all away. I only want this magic pancake stacking robot in my life. It’s the only reason we invented technology. The coolest tech is always the stuff that builds…
Badminton is silly and soft and dainty and not tennis, right? I don’t know anymore! This impossibly fast rally makes it seem like an impossibly fast sport played by humans who have impossibly fast reaction times. Even robots couldn’t see the ball and hit the ball so fast. It’s incredible. SPLOID is a new blog…
Another thing that I didn’t know was a thing. People who like to drop through big waterfalls, like Dane Jackson does in this video on the 60-foot La Tomata waterfall in central Veracruz, Mexico. And there’s more, like the 189-foot drop a reader posted below. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
The Royal Observatory of Greenwich, England, has crafted three simple animations to explain three very complex things: What’s inside a black hole, how do we know the age of the sun—did you know the Sun weighs 4,000 trillion trillion hippopotamuses?—and how big is the Universe. What’s inside a black hole? How Do We Know How…
Brad Josephs shot this super up close and very personal footage of Alaskan Grizzlies and I am not ashamed to say I gasped when the hairy behemoth bares its chompers around 0:53. It’s amazing to see them play and hunt in their natural habitat from this perspective. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
Rusty Blazenhoff from Blazenfluff tracked Adam West—the actor who played Batman in the 1960s TV series—through the phone book, yellow pages and white pages of Sun Valley, Idaho, where he lives. The results, as you can see in her photos, are quite funny. Every time I see one of these stories I’m amazed that they…
I read Days of Future Past—the X-Men two-book-saga by writer Chris Claremont, penciler John Byrne and inker Terry Austin—back when it first came out in the 1980s. Based on the new trailer, it seems that is has some key moments from it. Like when Storm gets killed? At least, that looks awfully similar to her…
The search for a new Earth outside the solar system seems to be nearing its end. NASA’s Ames Research Center astronomer Thomas Barclay has found a planet nearly the size of Earth in the habitable zone of a star in the Milky Way. Barclay’s announcement at the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System conference…
Aerial silk—dancing in the air suspended only by a piece of fabric but not tied to it—is always fascinating to watch. This video of Ashley Smith hanging from a solitary monolith over a cliff, however, has left me speechless—especially since she’s not using a safety harness. Fast forward to 6:30 to see her in action.…
A table with a hole that will suck all your mahjong pieces and returns them perfectly stacked, ready to play. Obviously, it’s powered by SORCERY… …or some clever machinery: I wish the same existed with normal tables: Throw in all the dishes and have them returned to you perfectly cleaned and ordered in seconds. SPLOID…
If we have to get advertising everywhere, is should all be as fun as this bus shelter ad in London, where they used augmented reality to make passengers believe that meteors were striking the city or a tiger was freely roaming through the street. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
