Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The lesson, as always, is that we’re dumb. All of us. Even the smartest among us can never save us because we’re all so dumb. Why? Because when we hear the wrong words, we don’t bother to fix ourselves but instead adopt those wrong words into our language even though they’re clearly wrong. It’s great!…
Here are picture perfect recreations of the food emojis we all love to drop in our text messages. You know the ones: the pizza slice, the taco, the foamy beer, the donut. Bon Appetit used a food stylist to recreate these popular emojis and it’s crazy how exacting their methods can be. To get the…
Electricity is powerful and astonishingly noisy. But why does electricity make this steel drill bit go up in flames? As YouTuber Lets Melt This explains, there are about 800 amperes running through the copper wires on either side of the bit. Copper conducts electricity very well. Steel, less so. That excess energy that can’t easily…
Some really cool things happen when FullMag decided to blow up ballistics gel with some blasting caps. First, when the blasting cap detonates, the gel basically erupts and explodes into this dancing substance. But it doesn’t break! The flubber gel just expands wildly until it withstands the blow and then just traps the remnants of…
This is madness. Like, seriously what in the hell is going on. In northern China, multiple bulldozers apparently got so mad at each other that they started one of the craziest demolition derbies I’ve ever seen on a public road. It’s a legitimate royal rumble between heavy machinery. There are normal cars on the street…
Everybody lies. We can’t help it. We exaggerate details to seem more fun, we highlight specifics to get more sympathy, and we fish for other people’s reactions to make us feel better. And with the social media handcuff we lock onto ourselves everyday with our phone addiction, we lie even more on the Internet to…
It’s the circle of life! Well, not quite but sort of. This great short animation from production company Chromosphere highlights the world we live in and the worlds beyond our world through the clever use of circles. Right smack dab in the middle of the frame, watch as the circles transform into animals and planets…
Do you remember the Green Destiny sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I didn’t. But that damascus steel blade finished with jade is so damn gorgeous and stunningly detailed that after seeing the guys at Baltimore Knife and Sword make it, I don’t think I’ll ever forget it again. The whole build process is so…
Here’s how a traditional wooden lacrosse stick gets made. You get to see how it’s done from the search for the right type of hickory tree to the splitting of the wood in halves and quarters and eighths to the steaming and bending and knitting and everything in between, it’s actually a humble process to…
“Your friends are all dead” isn’t something anyone wants to hear. In this video, the cartoony world of Valve’s free-to-play team-based shooter is brought into the real world with the help of Nerf guns, slick choreography, and a little computer magic. VFX company CorridorDigital pits a hopelessly outmatched Red team against a hoard of Blues.…
We expect the Earth to always be this beautiful blue marble but at some angles and at some times, it glows differently. Like if you just looked at the glorious Aurora Borealis from space, the planet would have this eery alien green glow to it. This stunning footage from NASA of both the Aurora Borealis…
Besides a bit of YouTube fame, it’s hard to say why stuntman Damien Walters challenged himself to perform a daring backflip over a speeding Formula E race car—which he couldn’t actually see coming. It’s a stunt more impressive than anything you’ll see in a Hollywood movie because there are no wires, and no computer graphics.…
Feliks Zemdegs solved his 5×5 cube at Melbourne Cube Day in 44.837 seconds. And the crowd went not at all wild. The 5×5 Rubik’s cube—or Professor’s cube—has over 282 trevigintillion (10^72) permutations, and requires intimate knowledge of the solving algorithms for both the 3×3 and 4×4. Even the tutorial for solving one of these complicated…
What’s a peaceful alien to do on a planet full of people intent on killing each other? Hide. For decades and decades. That’s roughly the idea behind Zumbakamera’s Bendito Machine V, but it doesn’t quite do it justice. The alien lands in what appears to be France and hides from conflict beneath a drawbridge. All…
About 500 years after it sank to the bottom of the Arabian Sea, researchers believe they’ve found the Esmerelda, a ship that was in Vasco da Gama’s fleet during his second voyage to India. The excavation has so far yielded over 2,800 artifacts. The Esmerelda, captained by da Gama’s own uncle Vincente Sodré, is the…
Nothing makes actors miserable like running around in the desert. Screen Rant collected 20 of the best scenes that made their actors deeply uncomfortable. They span from the purely physical (running at top speed in the heat of Abu Dhabi for The Force Awakens), to the psychological (everything inflicted on Shelley Duvall in The Shining),…
If you want to go through the history of cinema, you could easily just check out who won what when. There are awards given out to films every year and the importance we place on those awards allow those films to live on long after they’re first made. But this video compilation of 100 shots…
Dogs are friendly, lovable best friends. They don’t want to hurt anyone! So how do movies get dogs to attack people? With visual effects. A special effects team basically creates a digital double of a real dog and then makes it so that the CG-created dog attacks the actor in the way that the movie…
Let’s be honest. These days, superhero movies have become 2-hour long trailers for their next movie which in turn will be a 2-hour long set up for a bigger movie and other movies in their universe. Which will then lead to another movie! It’s endless. And maddening! And a lot of them aren’t even good…
The whirlwind of colors comes in waves. The giant mixing bowl takes in all the colors of sprinkles and then starts spinning like a laundry machine to combine them. You can see the layers slowly merge together, blue crashes into white, pink merges with orange and yellow, until everything is evenly mixed and ready to…
