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This youth hostel feels more like a space academy

This is the winning project to expandone of the oldest youth hotels in Germany, located in central Munich. Looking at its interior, it now feels like a Star Trek space academy. According to the architects, its design promotes a communal experience and the “established traditions of simple traveling, youthful curiosity and the thirst for encounter.”…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Another must-have retro game: 8-bit Fight Club

The first rule of 8-bit Fight Club is—shut up and take my money! Seriously, I really don’t know why the CineFix people keep making these videos instead of just hiring some developers to make these awesomeness real. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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Oh wow, it took me a second to realize this pen is actually a tattoo

I don’t like most tattoos, but I have to recognize that, when the artist is good, they can be admirable works of art. Like this pen on an ear—it looks so real it’s surreal! It could have been created by Salvador Dalí or René Magritte. Especially Dalí, looking at the melting ear: SPLOID is a…

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How pasta is made in a factory

Technically they are fusilli, but whatever, I just can’t stop looking at this GIF, which I made from the pasta episode of Sci Channel’sHow It’s Made. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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How to pick a lock in one simple perfect GIF

Have you ever wanted to learn how to pick locks? Well, this stupid simple GIF is your ticket. Now you just need to practice. A lock, in its simplest form, is just a series of pins,each of which has two parts that are illustrated in red and blue to the left. To pick a lock,…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes

Behold this incredible magical portal recorded in Japan

A mesmerizing scene featuring a beautiful sun light pillar against a peaceful snow landscape in Hokkaido, Japan—recorded on video by Shinji Kawamura. It feels magical, like a portal opening to a dream world in a Miyazaki movie. Kawamura has other beautiful nature videos of his homeland. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…

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Spectacular stunt: Man runs up 98-foot ship mast and jumps into the sea

Alex Thomson is an experienced sailor with an 8-tonne racing sailboat as tall as a 10-story building. He’s also a bit of a madman and here’s the proof—watch him running over the 98-foot-long mast of his ship and then jump into the sea. Here’s the video recorded in Cádiz, Spain, Thomson first heeled his ship,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This animation explains the Big Bang better than school did

I used to joke around about how I have learned so much more from YouTube than I ever did in school. I’m not joking anymore. Here’s a nice animation from Kurzgesagt that simplifies all you need to know about the Big Bang. It’s this type of education that plants a seed in my brain for…

Sploid Casey Chan

I’ve seen the future and it’s this touchscreen Pizza Hut menu table

Behold the future, my friends. It isn’t hoverboards or laser swords or transportation hailing apps or drone deliveries, it is this: a gigantic touchscreen that lets you build your own pizza on the table that you will eat it on. Use the touchscreen to perfectly customize your order, play games while you wait and pay…

Sploid Casey Chan

Hilarious photos make Oscar nominees pose with their younger selves

This is great. The geniuses at People Magazinestitched together pictures of celebrities posing with younger versions of themselves. Think Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey was always such a fine actor? You must’ve forgot about his goofy haircut! Only remember Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale as superbly talented? They were once wide eyed boys too. And what…

Sploid Casey Chan

The iPro is a mix between a Mac Pro and an iMac

Swiss designer Kurt Merki Jr. thought it would be cool to mix the iMac with the Mac Pro into one product called the iPro, complete with a 35-inch display and integrated sound bar. It looks… interesting, albeit a little bit far-fetched. In his own words: Ever since I was a kid, I have always been…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Python eats crocodile after gruesome five-hour battle

This python fought a fresh water crocodile for five hours before eating it whole. Is this picture not gross enough for you? No problem. Here’s video: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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This pilot firing a missile is the coolest selfie ever, not the Oscars’

Forget about Ellen Degeneres and forget about this astronaut. This is the most awesome selfie,not theirs: A Royal Danish Air Force pilot firing a live air-to-air AIM-9 Sidewinder missile form his F-16 fighter. I feel a bit of deja vu writing about this—after this and this—but it’s such a cool image that it had to…

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Man builds giant 50-foot-tall snowman with entire trees for arms

A farmer in Gilman, Minnesota, decided he have had enough of the snow that was ruining his greenhouses, so he decided to start piling it all up intothis 50-foot-tall snowman.Because why not. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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Impressive video of a massive dolphin stampede (and whales too!)

Captain Dave Anderson recently took his DJI Phantom 2 for a spin off the coast of San Clemente, California and spotted something amazing. As the drone took flight, it captured the amazing sight of thousands of common dolphins stampeding towards the Pacific Ocean. And then came the humpback whales. It’s not unusual for Capt. Dave…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes

Cool photos of Raptors firing missiles from their hidden weapons bays

I like these old photosof F-22 Raptors firing AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles from their hidden weapons bay. Especially the way this one curves looking for its targets, photographed from the top at the firing range over Point Mugu, California. The ones belowshow the very first time that a Raptor fired an air-to-air missile. Check out as…

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They should have featured this absurd star-studded skit at the Oscars

The funniest thing that happened yesterday involving famous actors didn’t happen at the Oscars. It was this trailer for a fake movie featuring Ben Kingsley, Gary Oldman, Mandy Patinkin, Kevin Spacey as Keyboard Cat and Chistoph Waltz as Hamster on a Piano. It’s hilarious. At least seeing some of my favorite actors ever doing completely…

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Terrifying photo of a tuna about to eat its prey

National Geographic’s photo of the day is, as usual, spectacular: a bluefin tuna about to eat its prey while it swims at extremely high speed. Taken by Brian Skerry, it’s part of a series featured in their March 2014 issue titled Quicksilver. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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Holy crap, this woman is flying hanging from two toy helicopters!

You’ve probably dreamt about flying. Who hasn’t? It seems awesome! But getting lifted into the air by two separate RC helicopters also seems more than a little bit scary. With one hand in each ring, attached by a cable to its own helicopter, this lady basically turns into an Olympic gymnast flying through the sky.…

Sploid Eric Limer

High-speed photos turn violent gun explosions into delicate stills

Herra Kuulapaa loves to take high-speed photos of firing guns, moved by a desire to see the unseen. His precise technique turns violent explosions into delicate spirals of flames and smoke. Here are a few examples. I’ve always been a scientific person fascinated by unseen phenomena especially too fast or slow. When we started doing…

Sploid Herra Kuulapaa

This youth hostel feels more like a space academy

Another must-have retro game: 8-bit Fight Club

Oh wow, it took me a second to realize this pen is actually a tattoo

How pasta is made in a factory

How to pick a lock in one simple perfect GIF

Behold this incredible magical portal recorded in Japan

Spectacular stunt: Man runs up 98-foot ship mast and jumps into the sea

This animation explains the Big Bang better than school did

I’ve seen the future and it’s this touchscreen Pizza Hut menu table

Hilarious photos make Oscar nominees pose with their younger selves

The iPro is a mix between a Mac Pro and an iMac

Python eats crocodile after gruesome five-hour battle

This pilot firing a missile is the coolest selfie ever, not the Oscars’

Man builds giant 50-foot-tall snowman with entire trees for arms

Impressive video of a massive dolphin stampede (and whales too!)

Cool photos of Raptors firing missiles from their hidden weapons bays

They should have featured this absurd star-studded skit at the Oscars

Terrifying photo of a tuna about to eat its prey

Holy crap, this woman is flying hanging from two toy helicopters!

High-speed photos turn violent gun explosions into delicate stills

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