Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The Oscars 2014 feel like (are?) a commercial for Samsung, with Ellen DeGeneres flashing a Galaxy Note and taking selfies left right and center. It’s ridiculous. Backstage? She actually used her iPhone, of course. PR people will never learn. I really don’t know what were they thinking. DeGeneres is a well known iPhone fan.She even…
You’re looking at a rabbit’s heart beating outside the animal that once hosted it. It’s alive, pumping blood on its own thanks to a revolutionary electronic membrane that may save your life by keeping your heart beating at a perfect rate. The thin, circuit-lined stretchable membrane has been developed by scientists at the University of…
This 328-foot (100-meter) structure wasn’tthe winner of the Çanakkale Antenna contest, a communications tower that will be built in Çanakkale, Turkey. This makes me sad because it looks like a lot more fun to me, even if those glass pods wouldn’t move through that loop at roller coaster speeds. I guess the pods would take…
According to English Russia,a Russian guy designed this car using a 3D modeling software. Then he and his friends got a Nissan Maxima “as a source for some parts” and built it. Looks like an all-terrain batmobile to me. Why can’t Russian keep building insanely dumb stuff like this instead of trying to start World…
Chris Burden says his amazing Metropolis II—a gigantic retrofuturistic city model where thousands of slot cars race forever—is not just a city model. Of course it’s not. It’s a goddamn amazing jesuschrist look at that city model. It looks glorious in this short by Henry & Rel. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
Ian McGregor lost his entire leg to a cancerous tumor, but he’s lucky to be alive thanks to a weird, never-before-attempted 18-hour surgical procedure: First doctors removed his calf and attached it to his arm to keep it alive during the tumor and leg amputation. Then they used the calf to fix the huge hole…
Winter came and overstayed its welcome. At what point do we make like the Russians and turn our tiny crappy cars into snow plow sleds? I say the next snow. Just hop on the hood of your car and make a friend drive you through and pummel it. Winter is stupid, this type of stupid…
In Focus collected a whole gallery of beautiful starling murmurations photographs, but this is one of those cases where photography can’t beat seeing thousands of birds in motion. These videos are breathtaking. Top image by David Buimovitch / AFP / Getty Images SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
You see that speck at the top of the mountain? That’s snowboarder Matt Annetts standing on top of a 3600 feet tall mountain face that’s so steep it looks completely vertical. And he’s going to snowboard down the whole damn thing. And you get to watch him. And yeah, it’s nuts. Breath evaporatingly nuts. It’s…
Listen to super talented voice actor Brock Baker zip through 33 different Simpsons impressions in 5 minutes. His Homer takes a little getting used to but he nails a good chunk of them. There are a few that are pitch perfect (like his Fat Tony). Anyway, it all adds up to a very fun watch.…
Rejoice, because here’s the first musical number from the new Muppets Most Wanted movie coming out in March. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
After watching this guy I’m really jealous. Even if it’s pretty crazy at the beginning, I’m jealous. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill recently hiked over 200 miles through Yosemite National Park with their backpacks filled mostly with camera gear. The effort was worth it based on the spectacular time lapse video they just uploaded to Vimeo. Check out more photos and footage of Delehanty and Neill’s journey at their website. SPLOID is…
From the US Navy: “Marines assigned to 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit enter the well deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard.” That looks like an amazingly fun ride to me. A lot more fun than this: Sgt. George Cardenas, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary…
This is pretty damn scary but, according to local media, this video allegedly shows about ten Russian attack Mi- 24 Hind helicopters entering Ukrainian air space through Crimea, the autonomous Ukrainian republic where 58.5-percent of the population are ethnic Russians. Ukraine’s government says that 2,000 Russian soldiers have already invaded their territory as the tension…
Today the NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a Japanese H-IIA rocket with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard. The joint mission will collect data to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. And there is an awesome anime about that. Because Japan. See for yourself: (Thanks for the tip…
Gizmodo’s Leslie Horn went to the American Museum of Natural History to meet the Exosuit, a first-of-its-kind 6.5-feet-tall aluminum alloy rig Robotech that weighs more than 530 pounds. The $600,000 atmospheric diving suit will take humans 1,000 feet underwater at surface pressure. Check out her cool reportage here. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Legendary car maker Lotus has produced a long line of exotic sports cars as beautiful as they are fast, but never motorcycles. Until now, that is. The company’s first foray into two-wheeled transportation is a work of art—the Lotus Motorcycle C-01. Created by genius designer Daniel Simon and developed by Germany’s Kodewa Performance Motorcycles, this…
This Harry Potterish floating book thingamajig designed by Kiril Gitman lets you display your favorite volumes flying around your living room. Useless awesomeness. He says he was inspired by the 2012 Oscar-winning animation The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is Dan, a 38-old-year old woodworker from Maryland who claims he has only eaten pizza for the last 25 years. Cheese pizza. Exclusively. He says he didn’t stop eating it despite being diagnosed with diabetes. That’s when doctors told him he had to change his diet if he didn’t want to lose his life…
