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This is how I imagine the future will look: All white aluminum and radioactive-green (or red) with some black parts here and there. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
Apparently, this is how you win the heart of the guy who plays the Wolverine. “Now THAT’S a barista,” he said on Twitter. I can only hope he improvised a musical number on top of the bar out of pure happiness. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
NASA has a new Sun observatory spacecraft in space. She’s called Iris and she opened her eyes for the first time last June. Now she’s sending images that are challenging scientist’s understanding of our home star, according to Bart De Pontieu, the IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin: We are seeing rich and unprecedented images…
Researchers from Rutgers University has just identified a very gross, very tough new species of cockroach never been seen before in the United States. And like many tourists before it, this invasive creature came to this country to see New York City. Meet the Japanese cockroach, or the Periplaneta japonica. Measuring up to an inch-and-a-half…
Jacqueline Patterson was born with cerebral palsy, a congenital disorder that affects her motor functions. As a result of her condition, she suffers from a severe stutter and major pain and weakness on her right side. This video showcases the amazing effect of cannabis on her condition. As a mother she doesn’t want her disability…
It’s being widely circulated in Twitter and Facebook right now but this photo of some biblical wrath of God storm about to hit Denmark—purportedly to be an image of the cyclone Bodil that has been hammering Europe these days—is not real. It’s quite cool, though. The real storm wasn’t cool at all. It was terrible,…
It’s the colors that get you when you’re out in nature. If you live in a city, you’re mostly dealing with drabs of gray speckled with Instagrams of exposed red bricks. If you live in the suburbs, you’ll see manicured lawns, potted trees, stucco and tile roofs until you’re myopic. But if you’re outside, like…
One is dark, one is light. One is gray, one is white. These are obviously two different blocks with two different colors right? Wrong. The two blocks are the same color. Seriously, they’re the same shade of gray. Just place your finger across the seam (where the blocks meet in the middle) to reveal the…
Some days you get incredibly lucky. This guy who managed to record a video of a semi-trailer truck almost tipping over and crushing his car just had one of those days. The road was wet, the winds were strong and the truck was about to lose control and fall over. You don’t want any of…
Who knew that one of the easiest superhero powers to get (at least on a neutered, pathetic human scale) is the Human Torch’s Flame On power? If you’re Russian and/or drink a lot of vodka, you can use a hot wire and a debauched sense of pain to create fire with your bare hands. Just…
SkyGuide’s creator Nick Risinger had to travel more than 60,000 miles by airplane and car to collect 37,000 individual photos to create this single image, the largest true-color image of the entire sky ever made: 100,000 by 50,000 pixels. He is using this image in the new version of SkyGuide, which will be released for…
Sugru is a clay-like synthetic wondermaterial that can be easily shaped with your hands and hardens completely after 24 hours. You can use it to fix and modify anything. It’s really cool in itself, but awesome when you combine it with powerful magnets. I haven’t tried their magnet kit yet, but I just fixed a…
“Compression fracture of the T12 vertebra, 5 stitches to the eye, 6 stitches to the chin, severely sprained back, wrist and hand. multiple bruised areas.” That’s the miraculous result of a failed base jump by Vimeo user Subterminally, who could have easily died. Feel free to scream as you watch him crash and fall—knowing that…
You must watch the entire US Congress’ hearing on the search for alien life—it has so many awesome moments. It fills me with hope that at last some people in Washington are truly interested in the greatest discovery that Humanity would ever make. Not only Dr. Mary Voytek (NASA’s Senior Scientist for Astrobiology, Planetary Science…
This is the RQ-180, the Pentagon’s new super-spy plane, which has been secretly developed for years. Unlike Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that this stealth beast is already flyingacross the restricted airspace over Area 51. This seems to be its home at the not-so-secret base: Aviation Weekly’s Senior…
A3’s Buster Cox sent us this surreal clip from Art Basel Miami Beach: a sculpture that appears to be made of marble but deforms like some kind of giant marshmallow. I imagine it’s made of ultra-thin paper. I’ve seen similar things in the past, but not so good as this one. Any ideas? Art Basel…
Otto reports that “Dutch firm Paul de Ruiter Architects has won the ARC13 architecture prize for their project Villa Kogelhof,” which is a great excuse to feature this awesome floating house, masterfully photographed by Jeroen Musch. The house is not only simply beautiful. It’s also carbon neutral, according to DesignBoom: Protected 25 hectare plot, a…
Wow, this is really cool. Audio Zéro recently made a video called Wikidrummer that shows how the same song on drums can sound completely different depending on where the drums are played. Out in the field, on a road, underneath a highway, inside a garage, in the park and so on can change the overall…
This brawny futuristic mini tank on two wheels is supposedly the world’s most powerful electric motorcycle. The battery-powered beast can re-charge its 12.8kWh juice pack in 30 minutes and has the power of a 1000cc motorcycle. Called the Voxan Wattman, the bike can hit 0-60mph in less than 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed…
Mario Kart just might be the funnest video game in the entire world. Only the soulless can’t find enjoyment in go kart racing with super fast Mushroom speed, red shells and Nintendo characters. So you can imagine the even more ridiculous levels of fun you can have if you turned Mario Kart into a real…
