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It makes sense. After all, the pipes are all there, right? Can you imagine if this happened at random in that already infernal game? People would probably smash their phones against the wall. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Someone sent me a link to this awesome GIF of an stabilized GoPro skiing clip in the mail and now I’m just thinking that every single skiing event should be filmed and broadcasted like it, just like they should do ski jumping like this. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
They are home to your favorite stories, your favorite songs, your favorite characters. You know so much about the Disney movies that you grew up with and the Pixar movies you love now but do you know where they’re all located? No worries, this map by artist Eowyn Smith will show you. England sure gets…
Meet 007. Not Bond but the bird. But they might just be as smart as one another because the crow can use tools to figure out complex puzzles just as well as a spy. Here’s a crow taking one of the most complex tests for the animal mind ever created. If he succeeds, the BBC…
HBO aired a special 15 minute preview for Game of Thrones Season 4 last night and it’s now up on YouTube to whet your appetite for dragons, swords, thrones, fantastic looking people, armor, dresses, politics, lengthy diatribes and general awesomeness. But as fun as it is to see a little bit of Game of Thrones…
Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Boom. Holy hell. This is not a real eyeball. It’s a completely computer generated eyeball that looks realer than my own eyeball. A CG eyeball. It’s frightening, like they chopped half a human face for the eyeball. Actually, I’m not 100% sure they didn’t do that.…
Miss the space roller coaster ride that was Gravity? Then you missed out on Sandra Bullock’s stressful spinning, George Clooney’s charisma soaked storytelling and a beautiful movie that seemed to be done in one endless take. It was a fun ride. But not nearly as fun as this animation of Gravity boiled down to 60…
Here’s something that’ll make you feel good on a day you wish was still the weekend: a 16-month old kid watches Superman take his first flight in Man of Steel and adorably (and appropriately) cheers him on. It’s just pure happiness. You can see the wonder in his eyes, the excitement in his clap and…
Everyone is crazy about The Lego Movie—solid story, nonstop humor, good characters, and absolutely spectacular visuals. It’s not surprising, looking at how much work and care these people put inside this film—and how much fun they had making it. I mean, look at those people: Playing with free Lego sets and computers. Nerdvana. SPLOID is…
Master swordsmith Tony Swatton—who has crafted swords for about 200 feature films—has made the Halo Energy Sword. The end result is pretty damn neat, but my favorite thing about Swatton’s videos is the process. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The Hahn HFP160 Firewood Pro Skidsteer Firewood Processor is just one of the many machines designed to turn trees into firewood at maximum speed. These ever-hungry metal monsters are the Four Horseman of the Industrial Apocalypse incarnated. It’s not the craziest one, however. This may be it: Which is similar to this: But there’s more.…
K. Jonas Nordby—a runologist doing his PhD research at the University of Oslo—has cracked the jötunvillur code, a secret rune code used by Vikings in the 13th century. He has been able to decipher 80 Norse inscriptions, including a romantic message that says “Kiss me.” The rest of the rune codes contain no major revelations,…
Everyone is talking today about October Jones—the author of Text from Dog—and his commuter photos: He draws alternative heads for fellow train passengers and uses them to replace their real heads in photos so he gets to travel with the Hulk and Kermit. These were made in 2012 but hey, the internet has no memory…
The Great Plains of the United States. Some of the most breathtaking landscapes on Earth happen over this vast land. Often, their beauty is on their skies, as these territories are the stage of some of the the most incredible thunderstorms and supercells in the world. This mesmerizing time-lapse—filmed in Wyoming and South Dakota—shows exactly…
NASA and Houston-based company GRoK Technologies will work on the development of new “breakthrough products,” noninvasive medical technologies designed to “regenerate bone and muscle tissues.” It really sounds like something out of Star Trek, but “it’s not just sci-fi anymore.” That’s exactly what GRoK’s founder and CEO Moshe Kushman says: It’s not just science fiction…
Watch these F-18 pilots training to take off and land on public roads, a skill they used to practice more often back in the Cold War days, when they had to be ready in case the Soviet Union decided to bomb their airfields during an invasion. Taking off and landing on public roads used to…
This moving commercial about Bell’s whisky does more in two minutes than most movies do in two hours. Give it a try. I went in expecting nothing—I mean, it’s a commercial!—and walked away gently holding my heart. It’s definitely better than any commercial that aired during the Super Bowl and probably more heartwarming than some…
To be fair, if you put together every second of any movie in one image, that image would almost always look like the skin and scales of dinosaurs but I swear my mind is making me believe it even more for Jurassic Park. It also kind of looks like a Magic Eye picture and I…
Ooh, lights. Pretty. It’s like stepping into an enchanted forest from the future. Romain Tardy and Squeaky Lobster created this installation called The Ark during Proyecta Oaxaca at the Ethnobotanical Garden in Oaxaca, Mexico. It’s built around the cacti that line the heart of the garden and the installation projects lights onto it and gives…
It still looks like magic. To be honest, I haven’t ruled out magic as a reasonable explanation for this yet yet. The MIT morphing table that lets you create a virtual version of you has some new tricks up its sleeves and they’re just as impressively mesmerizing as the first time we saw it. Watch…
