Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The reigning champion of breaking shit for YouTube views has been vaporized. How the mighty have fallen. We suspect the Hydraulic Press Channel threw the fight to Swedish Dynamite—clearly this is a smaller, less capable press than we’re used to. Still it’s a grim reminder that our 15 minutes of fame will always be fleeting.…
Junkyard flint knapping is my new favorite thing because it takes a piece of trash and recycles it into something else entirely with just a few taps (okay, more than a few taps). But watch Shawn Woods find an old bottle and then reshape it with tools that consist of an antler, a screw, and…
James Kenji Lopez-Alt is a chef and food writer. He’s been called the “nerd king of cooking” and he’s done plenty to earn that title. Unlike us plebs who pour a bowl of cereal, when Kenji gets a bit peckish in middle of the night, magic happens. The man’s half-asleep dishes are better than what…
Chill out, man. It was cute the first time you jumped out of nowhere. And maybe still sort of amusing the second time you missile’d yourself out of the water. But when the shark comes breaching once again? Dude. And when it gets a little bit too close where you can feel its splash? And…
Maps lie. We all learned this at some point in school, when we realized Greenland wasn’t quite the hulking beast of land mass we thought it was. I mean, Greenland isn’t even a third of the size of Australia. And the UK is teeny! Smaller than Japan, the Philippines, and Madagascar. Come to think of…
If volleyball had a child with a bounce house, it would be bossaball. The relatively young sport was created in Spain but has already started taking off in South America and Europe—and damn does it look like fun. Teams of four or five players stand on a big inflatable court, with two designated attackers standing…
Seth Rogen’s new animated film, Sausage Party, features grocery stores filled with produce that not only talk, but also have feelings—about being eaten alive. To see how real people would react to sentient produce, the comedian filled a grocery store with talking produce, and cameras, so your Friday morning will be a little less boring.…
This dude is crazy and awful and screwed up but also bold and daring and a freaking total savage. Armed with a handsaw and a sociopathic personality, he literally chopped down a tree in order to steal a bike. A tree no longer exists because this guy saw a bike locked up to it and…
Have you ever wondered why you don’t see people wearing Rolls Royce’s hood ornaments dangling from a necklace? It’s because the Spirit of Ecstasy, as the hood ornament is obnoxiously called, is protected by a brilliantly over-engineered mechanism that causes it to retract and disappear if tampered with. It’s apparently a standard feature included on…
Bikers Martin Söderström and Dawid Godziek seriously just pop up out of nowhere in this video as they bust crazy tricks out in the field. The expert editing hides their jumps so it looks like they’re almost superhuman because they’re getting so much air. It’s especially cool because you have no idea where they end…
Swinging over the bar was, and probably still is the dream of many a kid on the playground. (So much so that it become the backstory of a minor Nickelodeon character.) Lunatic inventor Colin Furze never quite grew up, and now he’s fulfilling his childhood fantasy at a terrifying scale with little to no safety…
Why do we throw coins into fountains and pretend that a wish will come true? Oh that’s right, there’s a wish granting man underneath every fountain that can totally make it happen. Or at least that’s what happens in this very cute short animation, The Wishgranter. The short, which was made by Kal Athannassov, John…
Damn, dirty butt grout doesn’t stand a chance against this terrifyingly powerful grout cleaning machine. It totally whoops on the dirt and makes gunky floors look brand spanking new, possibly even newer than new. Like it might’ve vaporized the floor it just washed. Everything gets totally erased in seconds. The magic potion is Army Chemical’s…
There’s so much violence in movies that it doesn’t even matter anymore. People get hurt, nameless bad guys get killed, cities get destroyed and we’re just like, “Oh whatever.” Superheroes fight superheroes and we don’t even care. That’s because most movies are numbingly uncreative when it comes to movie violence. Most films just use violence…
Jumping off the edge of a cliff takes a lot of guts. But jumping off the edge of a cliff when low-lying clouds make it impossible to see what’s beneath you? That requires a whole other level of bravery—and maybe a little insanity. After all, a parachute will get you safely to the ground, but…
The Swedish dynamite channel is everything you’d expect from the name—a place to watch a wacky Swede destroy things with high explosives. In its three months of existence, the channel has cemented its place in the proud genre of “man with device breaks things,” along with the slingshot guy, the hydraulic press guy, the guy…
The future is going to be genetically modified. That means the future could be disease-free with babies being designed in labs by parents who live in a world where aging has stopped all thanks to genetic engineering. Or the future might be something else entirely with state-mandated genetic engineering to turn citizens into super soldiers.…
Professor Kokichi Sugihara is a wizard, but he doesn’t cast spells or pull rabbits out of hands. His brand of sorcery involves creating simple paper objects that look like they’re bending the fabric of space. In reality they’re just incredibly clever optical illusions, but it doesn’t take much to break the human brain. [YouTube via…
I’ve always thought that as long as no one died, all explosions were cool. Turns out I’m wrong. Very wrong. A sewage truck exploding on the street is a terrible thing because, well, shit flies everywhere. One second you’re waiting for the light to turn green in a pristine white SUV, and the next, you’re…
When it’s burning that bright orange and oozing out like goo, glass looks almost like some sort of alien honey. This short from Bill Cox takes a close look at Chris Mosey of Ignis Glass in Chattanooga, Tennessee to examine the process of glass blowing and the relationship Mosey has with the material. The narration…
