Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Nikon ambassador Chris McLennan and engineer Carl Hansen have created a small remote controlled four-wheel drive rover to roam the savanna and capture photos of curious lions, like the cute pride above. It’s pretty neat. Watch it in action here. The Car L—as they call it—has a buggy frame and, on top of it, a…
From time to time, researchers find something that brings us closer to the future in a big way. The creation of stanene—the world’s first material to conducts electricity with 100-percent efficiency—is one of them. https://gizmodo.com/move-over-graphene-the-wonder-conductor-of-the-future-1471032563
Behold the latest goddamn species discovered on Earth! The big male seems to be ready to rip apart your two arms while grabbing your thighs with those lower hooks. You wouldn’t be able to scream because he’d be cracking your head with those jaws to eat your brains. Fortunately, fellow humans, these beasts are tiny.…
This one-of-a-kind Leica M camera by Apple design pope Jony Ive and Marc Newson has reached a record-shattering $1,805,000 at the Sotheby’s RED charity auction. It was expected to sell for about $750,000 but it seems that some rich kid really wanted a new toy for the holidays. Good, as all this money goes to…
The H-1 camera on board NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft has captured this sequence of the two comets now en route to the Sun: Encke and ISON. They look like sperms trying to fertilize an egg named Earth—which is quite appropriate, given the hypothesis that comets brought life to this planet. https://gizmodo.com/that-ison-comet-is-looking-more-and-more-spectacular-by-1467036688 NASA’s explanation: Dark “clouds” coming…
Some jet fighter photos look so perfectly choreographed and sharp that I automatically think they must be computer generated frames from some movie or game. These ones are very real. When I see them, I hear someone in my head screaming “EVASIVE MANEUVER!” I don’t know why the A-10C Thunderbolt II Warthogs from the 188th…
The A-10 Warthog is one of the most famous warplanes ever created, designed to obliterate any tank—900 in the first Gulf War alone—and vehicle using air-to-surface missiles and the GAU-8 Avenger, the biggest gun ever in a combat jet. It is gigantic. It is more than two times the size of a Volkswagen Beetle! The…
Next time you go to Titan—one of Saturn’s moons—remember this cool factoid: “The atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping ‘wings’ attached to their arms” as pointed out in Robert Zubrin’s Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. How awesome would that be? It will look…
I want to spend a summer in this simple glass, stone and metal home outside of Stockholm. Villa Överby—by John Robert Nilsson Nilsson Arkitektkontor—is a perfect example of my favorite architectural style: the When You Have a Beautiful Landscape, Just Give Me Goddamn Huge Windows style. Very Farnsworthian or Mies van der Roheish or whatever…
Northrop Grumman’s newest infomercial about its unmanned autonomous air, land, and sea vehicles feels like one of those typical foretelling montages that you see in dystopian sci-fi movies. You know the ones I’m talking about—they always play on some random TV when the human heroes battling the evil machines travel to the past to try…
You need to see how incredibly awesome Disney’s new animated snow technology is. They created it for Frozen—their new (non-Pixar) 3D animation feature. This video presented at the latest Siggraph shows how it works: I always marvel at the math and physics geniuses who get to make these reality-mimicking algorithms.
No, this is not a photoshop. You are looking at a fresh tomato—a cosmomato? A tomatonaut?—floating in space, orbiting at 4.791 miles per second, 230 miles above your heads. Why the hell is there a tomato in space? If you’re a good spacenerd cadet, you know already that the only things orbiting at 4.791 miles…
I love this beautiful silver bullet even while I hate Mercedes cars—their Gran Turismo Vision. Sadly, it’s just a prototype. Jalopnik has a neat 360-degree GIF taken at the Tokyo Motor Show 2013. https://jalopnik.com/heres-the-mercedes-gran-turismo-vision-in-360-view-1469714183
Oh wow. This incredible view of Antarctica shows it with its sea ice at its maximum, in the month of September. I never imagined it would look so goddamn huge. This image shows a view of Earth on September 21, 2005, made from the data taken by the AMSR-E instrument, a device designed to capture…
When you give graffiti artists a giant empty warehouse with blank walls, what do you get? So much good stuff. It’s like opening up an incredible Pandora’s box of visual delight that makes you believe in magic and makes you wonder why don’t we give artists more space to spray. The art was created by…
So this is cool: Filmmaker Thomas Jullien created a pretty sweet short movie by weaving together random strangers’ Instagram pictures to form a story. It starts with a bike ride to Paris and zaps you to New York and pretty much everywhere else in between. 852 Instagram pictures from 852 Instagram users come together for…
It has more or less become fact that when you pay money to travel on an airplane, you’re subscribing yourself to probable gropage, uncomfortable seats, shoddy service, a few degrees of recline comfort and nuked sludge as food (if there is food). It’s not pleasant. It’s not futuristic. It’s not fun. What if airplanes were…
Claytonias F. traveled around America the past few months and documented it all with a quadcopter drone, a Phantom and a GoPro. The aerial views of our wonderful country are incredible to us foot worn humans but probably just a normal Wednesday for flying birds. This is probably the closest we’ll come to flying. And…
This is so hilariously on point. It’s basically every silly Internet slap fight made infinitely fancier and thus even sillier. Seriously, watch these two old men perform a dramatic re-enactment of a YouTube comment fight over Harry Styles of One Direction between YouTubers Sophie Danze and JilianLovesTheBiebs and just enjoy the hell out of its…
It’s been more than a century since this huge and deadly Crambione Cookii jelly fish was spotted by American scientist Alfred Gainsborough Mayor, off the coast of Queensland. It was presumed extinct until now, when a scuba diver discovered one in the same waters.
