Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Shattering bats might look cool, but they’re really dangerous for both the players and the fans. Why does that happen, and how come bats always seem to snap in the same way? Consider the following: baseball bats are made of wood, and being a natural material, wood has certain innate structural flaws. One of the…
Put paint and oil and milk and soap together and what do you get? A lot of pretty. Thomas Blanchard continues his series of mixing paint and shooting it up close to create worlds of emotion and beauty through color. What’s especially cool is how alive it all feels. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
One of my earliest memories as a kid on an airplane is poking in to say hi to the pilots while flying. Obviously, that doesn’t happen anymore, so just sit in with them through this video to see what it’s like to be inside the cockpit of an Airbus A320 flying across Europe. The views…
There’s no point killing someone in a movie if you’re not going to say something really cool beforehand. Burger Fiction compiled 100 of the very best one-liners that precede some deserving jerk—or innocent bystander—being brutally murdered. Expect to see a lot of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, and Eastwood, with a few odd gems and newcomers thrown…
It’s not often you come across a real-life mad scientist. They’re usually just over-the-top antagonists in comic books, but Colin Furze is the real thing. He has a penchant for building things that often blow up—on purpose—like this impossibly dangerous-looking thermite cannon. Not familiar with thermite? It’s an especially nasty chemical composition made of metal…
“Isn’t San Diego Comic Con in July?” you might be wondering. And you’d be right. But Adam went to the first inaugural Silicon Vally Comic Con on a personal invite from Steve Wozniak, and he pulled out all stops. As a nod to his first incognito con in 2008, Adam dressed up again as his…
It’s just a pushable basket you use to store groceries and skate cart ride around the aisles with, so why do grocery carts cost $100 a cart? Science Channel details how the shopping cart is made with 75 yard of a steel cage covered in Telfon, how the bumpers can withstand 30mph crashes, how the…
It’s flying colors! Paul Trillo’s Chromaticity cleverly choreographed four drones to fly across the sky and leave smoke of color against the backdrop of the endless ocean. The effect is pretty awesome to see because the smoke grenades cover the drone and make it seem as if it’s just a team of superheroes flying together.…
Those wooden railroad ties underneath the metal railroad tracks? Absolutely solid hunks of wood perfect for reclaimed furniture. Here’s one being transformed into a stable wooden bench that can fit a whole lot of adults. The build is pretty simple too, all you need is a saw, a drill, and a chisel to pull it…
The great thing about Nintendo 64 games is that dedicated players are still finding exploits years later. But the true die-hards are discovering glitches that are purely theoretical. In Paper Mario 64, there’s a yellow block which appears to do nothing. Hit it with the hammer, and it still does nothing. Hit it a shit-ton…
Vincent Urban filmed this totally bad ass video of Japan that captures so many sides of the country that it makes me want to immediately drop everything and book a ticket to experience what looks like the coolest place on Earth. From the frenetic city streets to the stillness of nature, Japan just does it…
Laser hair removal might be the most requested cosmetic procedure, but how does it work? As Veritasium explains, dark hair contains melanin, a pigment that helps protect us from the sun by absorbing many wavelengths of visible and ultraviolet light. Bursts of high-energy laser light are absorbed much better by these unwanted hairs than by…
Watch as satellite imagery shows how the windy Ucayali River in Peru changed its course over the span of 25 years. The sharp bends of the original river start moving around and then even merge at some points creating a whole new pathway, while the leftover bodies of water are just put out on their…
Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently, not from the checkout line at grocery stores! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter to the grinding and tempering and molding…
It’s the little things that matter. Here’s an in-depth look from CineFix about the little visual cues and tiny details that directors use to influence what we’re watching on the screen. The scenes from movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Inglourious Basterds, and others show how directors like Ang Lee and Quentin Tarantino shape a…
Tim Linhart started off as an ice sculptor. Well, he’s still an ice sculptor, but now the crazy dude supplies a small orchestra with working music instruments made out of frozen water. The journey to founding Ice Music started with a fluke, when Linhart carved an upright bass out of ice and was surprised to…
Wow. Let’s never ever be on this end of a gun barrel in real life but seeing the slug shoot out from this homemade quad barrel shotgun is really, really impressive. The homemade weapon is pure insanity—like something only fit for a comic book villain—because it’s four shotgun barrels in one but seeing it fire…
Here’s a wonderful video by Franck Matellini showing daytime and night time in London right next to each other, all at the same time. The split screen effect is really neat because it’s so seamlessly done, as if people are stepping from day into night and vice versa in the same frame. London looks better…
I don’t even want to think about how long it took to get all this paint off. Kay Pike created this 1000x timelapse from her Twitch stream in which she used her astounding artistic skills to transform herself into the Man of Steel. The suit and the hair are spot-on, but given that Kay is…
A melted brick of crayons on a lathe combines everything I love about craftsmanship with everything I remember enjoying about a spirograph. The toys get bigger, but we never really grow up. And being a kid at heart requires making a mess. In the case of making a vase out of crayons that involves covering…
