Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
I agree with ViralNova: these green army men ares one of the cleverest, best executed Halloween costumes I’ve ever seen. From the plastic finish of the clothes and weapons to their perfect posture, they are perfect.
Yesterday, 26-year-old professional surfer Maya Gabeira tried to break the world record for the largest wave ever surfed. That record was set on the same beach—Nazaré, Portugal—by Garret McNamara on January 2013. Unlie McNamara, Maya failed and nearly died in the process. What followed was an spectacular rescue that almost failed. Maya fell and couldn’t…
Scientists have invented a new low-cost method to create a safe welding flame using water as its only fuel. Called the Safeflame, the device splits water in oxygen and hydrogen, recombining them both outside of the torch’s mouth to create fire. And the only byproduct is water. In the past, this method was too pricey…
Here are some ideas for your Halloween costume: go as this glass squid or any of the freaky marine beasts selected by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Check out these weird creatures in these videos:
You’re looking at the oldest human brain in the world. About 1400 years older than the previous cerebral pudding discovered near the University of York—which looks really gross, see below—this one is four thousand years old. Scientists have a weird theory about how it survived all this time. Although the brain appears to be sightly…
That yogurt parfait is a nice contrast to the grilled onion cheddar burger but, sadly, all the elBulli-worthy innovation is completely destroyed by the chocolate chip cookie. Or maybe not. https://thisiswhyyourefat.kinja.com/mcdonalds-everything-dollar-menu-sandwich-1453570026
This ad by Honda uses forced perspective and anamorphic optical illusions to screw up your mind. No computer animation is involved—just clever camera work and paintings on the ground. Watch it complete here:
Quietly, NASA keeps advancing in their manned deep space exploration: you’re looking at Orion—the first spaceship that hopefully will leave Earth and the Moon behind en route to Mars and other places in the solar system—powering up for the first time ever. It feels like a restart of Humanity’s journey to the stars after the…
On February 2, 1970, US Air Force Major Gary Foust completely lost control over his F-106 combat jet as it entered a flat spin fall. It got so bad that he had to eject. And then something truly incredible happened. You have to see it to believe it. If you’re too impatient, go to 1:32…
Someone has unearthed a new Star Wars blooper reel. I’ve seen many others before, but these look completely new to me and everyone at Reddit. Some of them are extremely funny, like the Imperial stormtroopers comically struggling while entering the Death Star’s prison level.
Tilt-shift videos use focus to trick viewers into thinking they are seeing tiny miniatures in motion rather than full-scale reality. This extraordinary work by Keith Loutit found by PetaPixel pushes the envelope even more and, for the first time ever, it animates the camera focus with quite surreal results.
If the new Xbox One lives up to this demo—”a silky, voice-controlled dream,” says Gizmodo’s Mario Aguilar—it will be the closest thing to the Star Trek computer experience yet: a computer that can truly understand you in a natural way and do things effortlessly. Watch the video: https://gizmodo.com/best-xbox-one-dashboard-look-yet-is-a-silky-voice-cont-1453293707
This is strange but, when I watch some people write with a fountain pen, a quill or a brush, I get a pleasant and constant shiver up and down my spine, which is why this video featured by This Is Colossal is better than porn to me. I can watch him doing this for hours.…
War photographs aren’t grainy or blurry or dark anymore. Now they are so crispy, clean and dramatic that my brain has problems admitting they are real. Or are they? This collection of awesome combat images are a good example of that. They feel like perfect special effects shots taken out of sci-fi movies or video…
See that huge flesh melon growing on that woman’s chest? It may look like a gross oversized tumor but, according to the Global Times, it’s part of a brilliant plan by Chinese doctors to reconstruct her face, severely disfigured in a fire when she was five years old. The kid lost most of her skin,…
Say hello to the Callicebus caquetensis, “a new and critically endangered” monkey species found in Southern Caquetá, Colombia, deep in the Amazon rainforest. “When [the babies] feel very content they purr towards each other,” says its discoverer, scientist Thomas Defler. The new purring monkey is included in a list of 441 new species discovered in…
ALMA—the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile—has obtained this incredible and eerie new view of the coldest known place in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. Check out the beautiful high definition image to see all the fine details. If you look at the blue behind the orange glow you can see a walking alien…
Static drilling bit carving a piece of rotating metal forever. Head to the new Gifmodo Kinja for more delicious eye candy like this.
One thing I love about the old Jack Kirby’s Captain America comic books—the best ever made—is the mind-blowing machinery that The King came up with to match his insane dark conspiracy stories. He wouldn’t have been disappointed with the new Captain America 2. still images in this s trailer analysis. Of course, he would have…
The new Super Mario 3D World game really looks like fun. Probably not as fun as the original Mario games, but _a lot. _Enough to make me want to buy a Nintendo and play it. https://kotaku.com/the-next-great-mario-game-1451431985
