Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Photographer Ron Elkind sent us some cool airplane photos taken at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Like this is the B-2 Spirit of Florida with its weapons bays open—mouths of destruction that can vomit anything from bunker busters to nuclear nombs. Or this beautiful F-16 shot. It feels like a mirror image, but they are…
A man effortlessly lifts a 42-pound weight at the end of a long rod over his head. It seems like it’s floating! What is this sorcery? Is this guy a wizard? Perhaps he has discovered an anti-gravity device to make Back to the Future skateboards? Actually, it’s just good old physics in action. First watch…
Not everyone has Alfonso Cuarón’s budget to build the car rig used in Children of Men’s 4.1-minute long tracking car sequence, so when The Raid 2’s director Gareth Evans and his team had to film this car chase scene they had be really clever. Turn-a-cameraman-into-a-car-seat genius-level clever. The action starts around the 9-minute mark: SPLOID…
Say hello to Olivia. Or is that Daenerys Targaryen. Or Hannah Horvath. Maybe Walter White. Sometimes Michonne. And Frank Underwood. Olivia has been all of those famous TV characters before because she’s awesome. Photographer Karen Abad played dress up with her friend Cristina’s baby Olivia and cooked up this adorable photo series showing the toddler…
Sushi is at its most delicious when it’s simple. Obviously years of training is required to become a master sushi chef and details matter immensely but you can boil down the essence of sushi to rice and fish. Yum, however you slice it. But could you make sushi even simpler? One sushi chef did. He…
The rules done changed in F1 racing from last year to now and the most obvious difference between 2013 and 2014 is the sound of the engine in F1 racing cars. Before they used to be so screaming loud that they sounded like the manifestation of space laser warfare on the road. Now in 2014?…
You should probably never try this when you go scuba diving but watch this scuba diver turned shark whisperer instantly immobilize a shark and put it to sleep with a touch of the nose. The diver uses a technique called tonic immobility, he basically holds the sweet spot on the shark’s nose to put it…
Today is a great day for science, humanity and Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde—one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory that was confirmed today. Watch his emotions as assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises him with the news of the evidence that supports a whole life of theoretical work. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-capture-first-ever-signal-from-the-beginning-1545578133 Kuo and his colleagues were…
Believe it or not, this is a Bloody Mary. The most ridiculous Bloody Mary ever, an entire mega-brunch in a glass, but still a Bloody Mary. Check out the entire thing. The Bloody Mary may be one of humanity’s greatest inventions but, as you can see in these images collected by The Vulgar Chef, it…
Film history is full of dancing. Romance, drama, spy thrillers, musical, comedy, terror, even war movies. It doesn’t matter. There’s dancing in every genre. This supercut demonstrates it, compressing 246 films in one groovy supercut set to the Bee Gee’s You Should Be Dancing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
Since I was a little kid, my favorite car racing liveries in the world are Martini, Marlboro, and Gulf. Maybe that’s why I love so much these racing machines created by Alex Jaeger, an industrial designer and VFX Art Director at Industrial Light & Magic. That and because they are damn cool. Alex Jaeger is…
Someone put a GoPro on Superman’s head so we could all experience what he sees on his day to day. Or maybe someone put a GoPro on a quadcopter and then changed the speed and added some clever effects to get this great little video. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
It looks like an explosion from an 80s game, but you’re looking at the first direct proof of the event that started the Universe—the Big Bang. Those black lines represent the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which “could have been produced by gravitational waves created by inflation” as predicted by Einstein. If confirmed, it…
Seriously folks, you need to watch 9-year-old Jacob debating about how to deflect or destroy asteroids that may hit Earth with Cosmos’ host Neil de Grasse Tyson. The non-Newtonian fluid line is pure gold. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Missing panels and gremlins top the list of things you don’t want to see on a plane’s wing at 30,000 feet. But on Delta flight 2412 from Orlando to Atlanta yesterday, one passenger captured this unnerving scene: A big panel came loose and fell during take-off. The panel reportedly came loose and fell off as…
As this Bloomberg map shows, Malaysian flight 370 is not the first flight to mysteriously disappear. 83 flights have vanished since 1948—80 of them never to be found again (the dots in yellow). This map only includes flights capable of carrying more than 14 passengers. Some more curious stats: Five planes were missing in the…
What the hell, internet, will the Frozen-mania ever stop? Check out these videos of people making fun of the picture-perfect parents from Texas and besting them in the process. First, these parents really sing the song Love Is an Open Door. It actually sounds as good as the original. https://gizmodo.com/amazing-parents-perfectly-lip-sync-to-frozens-love-is-1542621446 Then there’s these twins, which…
According to a Redditor, Scott Jarvie took this cool night photo of Julia Wooten at a rock climbing route in Papago Park, located between the cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona. Here’s the entire photo in its original orientation: It doesn’t seem like a montage to me—after getting it through Photoshop—and apparently that’s the view…
This 10-minute supercut video includes all films listed in Steven Jay Schneider’s 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die—plus 215 extra motion pictures. It took its creator—Jonathan Keogh—one year to finish. Can you recognize all of them? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Recreational mathemusician Victoria Hart—aka Vi Hart—gives overwhelming (and fun!) evidence that clearly demonstrates that Pi is a stupidly common number and the fascination of people with this number is just dumb. You know she’s right. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
