Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
According to Carl Sagan, the only thing that can stop us from reaching the stars is a) a global extinction event or b) nuclear self-destruction. I thought B was out of the question already but, according to the Wall Street Journal, perhaps we aren’t there yet. The news is that Russia has deployed SS-26 Stone…
The ÁPH80 prefab houses are made at a CNC (computer numerical control) mill factory located in Northern Spain. Designed by architect Camino Alonso—one of the owners at architectural firm Ábaton—is a compact 29.5 by 9.84 feet (9 by 3 meters) home that can get carried in a truck and deployed in 20 minutes. The houses…
This is an image of the very last test of the Pratt & Whitney J58, the engine that powered the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and A-12 Oxcart. It used to get so hot at full afterburner that it looked like it was about to melt. Those shock diamonds are beautiful. https://gizmodo.com/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr-71-blackbird-5511236 I love this description excerpted…
IBM Research’s 5 in 5 list—five things that will happen in the next five years—is here. Some are quite surprising and awesome. The bad news: no flying cars and/or realistic sex robots yet. The good news: doctors routinely using your DNA information to heal you effectively. But even while that may seem kind of surprising,…
There is no CG in this video and yet it messes with reality so much that it sure seems like it’s complete make believe. Instead, Cy Kuckenbaker simply removed and reorganized cars of the same color to make it seem as if they were driving together in a group. It’s a hypnotizing effect to see…
DodBuzz asks an interesting question: Will aircraft carriers remain useful in future wars? The answer is no. And the reason is missiles like you’re seeing in this photograph: a Raduga KH-22 cruise missile mounted on a Tupolev Tu-22 Backfire long-range strike bomber. Mark Jacobson—former advisor to General Stanley McChrystal and ex-CIA chief General David Petraeus—told…
We’re going to Australia, everybody. You, me, your mother, my neighbor, your dog, the guy on the subway, the girl in the book store, everybody. Why? Because they’ve built the closest thing to a real life Jurassic Park there. Called Palmersaurus Dinosaur Park, it’s home to 160 animatronic dinosaurs that move, blink, roar and just…
So 20th Century Fox contacted professional video maker and friend of Gizmodo Casey Neistat to make a video for them about Ben Stiller’s upcoming movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Cool, that kind of stuff happens all the time to him. But instead of using the money to make a movie about the movie,…
Here’s what it looks like to fire a weapon. Oh? You’re not impressed? Right. I understand. Because every first person shooter video game that kids play these days looks exactly like this. Hell, to be honest, the video games might look even more realistic than real life (if that makes any sense). YouTube user cheekflapperer…
This photo of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter being tested in a wind tunnel comes from the archives of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the national aeronautics and space research centre of Germany. It doesn’t feel like a photo from 1940. This facility actually looks from the future. Most people associate wind tunnels…
What are you going to remember from the year 2013? Will you think of all the great people we’ve lost? Will you think about Miley’s tongue? Will you think about Game of Thrones or Orange Is the New Black? Sports? Twerking? Viral videos? Movies? iPhones? Xbox Ones and PS4s? Maybe all of that. Maybe more.…
RatedRR never fails to deliver crazy videos of things exploding, firing, or bursting into flames. This video of a Christmas tree made of detonation cord—a flexible plastic tube filled with an material that explodes “at a rate of approximately 4 miles per second”—is fantastic. As promised, there would some explosions in Sploid. Happy holidays! SPLOID…
Merry Christmas! Happy holidays! Santa Claus isn’t *spoiler alert* real! And that’s actually a good thing. Because if Santa Claus was real and scientifically accurate, he would travel the world so fast that he’d basically become a flaming meteor that would destroy the world and crater the Earth. Claus himself would then turn into ground…
A new genetic study on great white shark’s hearts has found that these animals are strikingly similar to humans. More than zebrafish, in fact, which is now widely used to “study cancers, neurological diseases and blood disorders” because of their similitude to humans. Cornell University’s professor Michael Stanhope—the lead author of the paper published in…
Medicine is amazing but sometimes it can look like the darkest corners of Stephen King’s brain. This is exactly the case: Chinese doctors saved a man’s severed hand by attaching it to his ankle, creating some impossible anatomy in the process. Xiao Wei—an industrial worker in Changde, China—suffered a dramatic accident in which his hand…
“Some heavy big trucks being dropped from a military plane in the middle of the night,” says the YouTube description, “huge machines, being launched at incredible speed!” Indeed. I love the faces of those soldiers waiting to jump after the trucks: The soldiers and the hardware belong to the the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which…
Christopher Nolan’s teaser for his new movie is nothing but a few clips of some classic moments in America’s space history with Matthew McConaughey voiceover. But, every time I watch it, I get goosebumps. Interstellar also stars Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain. It’s coming to theaters in a year. I will be there.
The observable Universe is a 92-billion-light-year sphere—a place so big that it’s impossible to imagine its dimensions. But what if the Universe were as small as a scale model train? Then the Horsehead Nebula would look something like the above. I came across this Imgur post and I thought it would be fun to try…
This otherworldly photo is so amazingly weird and exotic that you may think it comes from a secret colonial base in the Jovian moon of Europa. In reality, it’s the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica as photographed by Antony Dubber, the chef of the British Antarctic Survey. The outstanding photo is part Ice Lab,…
You probably already saw a railgun in action, but perhaps not the end result. This is how one of those thick steel plates look after being shot. The kinetic projectile just doesn’t give a damn. https://gizmodo.com/this-navy-electric-railgun-annihilates-targets-100-mile-5711467 SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
