Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s totally smushed. But yet the vaunted (?) yellow rubber ducky doesn’t explode like how the previously impenetrable hockey puck nor did it get destroyed to smithereens like every other object that’s been put under the hydraulic press. Instead, after going through a few bouts with the smasher of all smashers,…
This is totally silly because it was two years ago but anyone who saw True Detective season one knew a few things to be true. That Matthew McConaughey was going to win an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club because of his performance as Rust Cohle in True Detective and that as foul as cigarettes are,…
New York City is a special place. In the morning, when the city wakes up. At night, when it doesn’t sleep. On the grid, in the park, next to the water, across the boroughs, in the bars, on the corners, it all adds up to the best city in the world. Here’s a great view…
I’ve seen a lot of knife-making videos, but none with quite this much ennui. Niels Provos is uniquely skilled in that his talent as a blacksmith is only matched by his ability to be dryly funny. Some creators would languish in the beauty of forging, while Provos comments flatly on the “completely irrelevant” effect slow-motion…
Gravity doesn’t really apply to world champion jet skier Eli Kemnitz when he’s on one of these floating rockets. Just watch him freestyle and bust out an array of jumping tricks on flat water. You get to see it a little bit from his perspective but the really wild part is just watching him spin…
You know those old machines where you drop a coin in and it starts whirring and spinning and everything comes to life and you’re supposed to have fun as you watch the little people move in a set pattern because that’s the only form of entertainment that exists? This music video for Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Ma’agalim’…
As one of the most beloved franchises of all time, The Force Awakens was scrutinized to a degree usually reserved for Pynchon novels by grad students (a treatment Rogue One is already getting as well). As a result, there’s a lot we now know about even the most minute details from the film, and Screen…
God, what a special movie. One that not only could I watch over and over again but also just listen to. Here is Zackery Ramos-Taylor splicing scenes that highlight the sound of Mad Max: Fury Road. They all combine to do such a good job in making you feel as if you’re inside the desolate…
This is fun. Watch as this yacht carrier, the Super Servant 4, lowers its deck into the water so that tiny yachts and normal yachts and super yachts can all float and steer themselves on the water into their water parking spaces. And then watch the Super Servant 4 rise up and bring all the…
Fireworks, which were invented in China, are obviously a big deal in China. But no fireworks show in any part of the country and very probably the world can match the sheer spectacle and beautiful audacity of the fireworks show in Nuanquan, China. That’s because it’s more of a molten metal show. A blacksmith, wearing…
Skating a drained in-ground pool is old hat by now, so an entire waterpark was the obvious logical step forward. In this short video, Alex Sorgente, Milton Martinez, and Jan Hoffman shred what was once Atlantis’ aquaventure park in Dubai, without falling off these impossibly high slides. If you’re looking for great tricks, look elsewhere—this…
Because we’re all so sensitive these days: SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t watched some TV shows like Breaking Bad or The Wire or Lost or Sons of Anarchy or Friends, watch out, because you’ll see what the first frame was in the series premiere and what the last frame was in the series finale. If…
There are lots of reasons to think this 360-degree video of a determined photographer who almost gets hit by a landing plane is fake. Why is the aircraft coming in so low for a landing? What photographer would willingly put their life—and their gear—at such risk? But it actually happened. The low quality of the…
When you see these climbers reach the top of Lotte World Tower, a 1,823-foot tower that’s the tallest building in South Korea and taller than One World Trade Center in New York, there’s an ever so brief moment of peace. Wow, things look great from up here! And then it’s back to the stressfulness of…
Over the years, Adult Swim has been a lot of things to a lot of people, but it all started as an unbudgeted hail mary project centered around repurposing 30-year-old animation cells. Back in 1992 Cartoon Network wasn’t much more than a rerun channel, thanks to Ted Turner acquiring the MGM cartoon libraries. Their first…
Even basic high school science tells you that building a perpetual motion machine is completely impossible. But that won’t stop you from rooting for this contraption made of office supplies and other stuff found around someone’s desk. It might not run forever, but at least it helped someone kill a few hours at work. [YouTube…
Unless being covered in impossible-to-clean metal shavings is your idea of a good time, leave this experiment to the professionals. YouTubers What’s Inside? and Grant Thompson teamed up to learn two things: What do the guts of an Etch A Sketch look like, and can you make thermite with them? (Spoiler: No.) The vast majority…
Think DJs just check e-mail on their computer when they’re DJ-ing? You’re not alone! But when they actually spin instead of just pushing the play button, there’s a lot more going on. Here’s DJ Enferno showing us all how it’s done. It’s a little performative, obviously, but he’s balancing a lot of things at once…
The soundtrack helps, obviously, but there is art behind the art of ballet. Here’s a backstage look at the Oregon Ballet Theatre where you see the moments leading up to the big show. From practices on the stage to getting ready inside the dressing room to the set up of the stage and the costumes…
Even the most basic yo-yo tricks depend on the toy’s ability to keep on spinning. But why does it spin so fast for so long? The magic center of a yo-yo is a bearing—a bunch of tiny metal balls trapped between two rings. Because there’s less surface contact between the balls and rings, less friction…
