Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
It’s slightly uncomfortable to see a hornet climb out of its cocoon from this close of an angle but there’s also something really captivating about seeing it stretch out and discover its own body and surroundings for the first time. I imagine it must be like waking up with a massive hangover with no memory…
Humpback whales, those 80,000-pound giants of the sea, might be the living embodiment nature’s majesty, but when one gets close enough to crush you, it’s like you’re in the middle of some Godzilla monster flick. Things start off mild, even serene, in this video. A kayaking adventure off the coast of British Columbia. Then things…
There’s a crap ton of steel in broken down bridges and some of that steel gets repurposed into things like turntables. It’s already fun to imagine a structure that connects land getting re-used for an instrument for sound, but it’s even cooler to see the whole melty metal process of it all. Who doesn’t like…
Adam Kalkin is an architect in New Jersey who found the smartest way to expand his home: cover it in a bigger house. From the outside it looks like a giant shipping container. And that’s pretty much what it is—a 27 foot high prefab structure of metal and waxed concrete. Inside, the original 130-year-old cottage…
This video is just footage shot normally and then played in reverse and, well, there’s nothing else more than that. Some of the stunts are a little more fun to watch than others—I like seeing how the eggs uncrack and how the orange fits back together like a little puzzle—but it’s all just dumb fun…
Hey buddo, I get it. Going to the dentist is no fun and fish need to eat. It’s logical—symbiotic even. And fish aren’t going to chastise you about cavities, or drinking too much coffee, or not flossing. And they won’t try to talk to you about classic cars while inside your mouth (looking at you,…
Because riding a 360-degree swing as tall as your house isn’t daring enough, amateur mad scientist Colin Furze has upgraded his latest creation with a gas-powered parasailing motor, giving it more power, more speed, and a guaranteed way to make riders want to puke their brains out after a ride. [YouTube]
How many thousands of ants do you think are in this floating ant raft? I mean, the size of it is just ridiculous and there’s more ants clumped up in balls on top of the raft too. Ants have been known to link their legs and mouths with each other to create these sort of…
Feeling proud of yourself for getting to work on time this morning? You won’t be as impressed with your accomplishment when you watch Paralympic archer Matt Stutzman, born without arms, nail a bullseye using his legs and feet. Not only is Stutzman a member of the US Paralympic Archery Team, he also holds the Guinness…
Plumbers can only climb so high in Brooklyn—and Mario and Luigi are looking to fly. In this fan film by Nick Gregorio, Nintendo’s platforming heroes are given the violent, drug-fueled Scorsese overhaul, with Luigi assuming the role of Ray Liota’s Henry Hill. Toad is a coke-snorting kingpin; bob-ombs become Bobby Bombs; Bullet Bill didn’t exactly…
Throw dry ice in everything just to see what happens, if you ask me. Crazy Russian Hacker put dry ice in some green slime and a bunch of bubbles started forming out of nowhere. The bubbles eventually pop in a small explosion of smoke but when they first appear underneath that muck of green goo,…
Of all the terrible things Mother Nature can throw at us—tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons—nothing comes remotely close to being as terrifying as lightning shaped like a T. rex ready to devour the earth. This photo, posted to the US Department of the Interior’s Instagram account, is pretty much the only reason you need to never leave…
I don’t know, man. Don’t ask me why the chicken is wearing blue pants. Don’t ask me where the chicken even got his blue pants. Just enjoy the silly inanity of a chicken running around the yard like a total goofball while wearing blue pants. I don’t know if the chicken likes wearing his blue…
It’s obvious to anyone with eyeballs that there ain’t no damn stars in the city, while there are about a gazillion and one out in the countryside. But what do the various gradations of light pollution actually look like? Sriram Murali pointed his camera to the night sky to show you the progression of light…
Speed cubing champion Anthony Brooks is used to racing the clock when he’s solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but since we’re in the middle of the 2016 Olympics, he decided to challenge the world’s fastest man, running the 100 meters, to a head-to-head race. As fast as Usain Bolt is on his feet, he’s no…
Here’s two grown men attempting to throw a piece of plastic at each other every possible way except the right way. How do you go through life this long and not know how to throw a frisbee? Have you never seen someone throw a frisbee, if not in real life than at least in a…
Vietnam is a wonderful place to travel to because the food is fantastic, and the country is gorgeous. This drone view from Thắng Sói reveals the beauty of the countryside from above and shows off the rice paddies, the old capital city, the mountains, the fishing towns, the natural wonders, and all the other awesome…
Jumping out of a plane and soaring like an eagle while wearing a wingsuit isn’t for the faint of heart. But trying to hit a stationary target atop a mountain while flying at 120 miles per hour requires a whole other level of bravery, and maybe a dash of crazy? Whatever it takes, Miles Daisher…
There are over 150 steps in making a bamboo fishing rod which involve nearly 60 hours of work to actually complete. That’s a lot of work. You can sneak a peak at how it gets done—the carving, the burning, the shaving, the glueing—in the video below by Michael Herman. In it, you get to follow…
I don’t find myself thinking about the structure of a movie as often as I should. But after seeing this video from CineFix explain the different structures used in movies, I probably will. There’s a lot of information to unpack and a lot of movies get mentioned and a lot of their picks for the…
