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Tech NewsSploidHow Far Back in Time Could You Travel and Still Understand English?
Time traveling back into the past is almost always a bad idea. Everybody is racist, everything is dirty, and you’ll probably get some terrible disease and/or get stabbed with a sword that everyone is carrying but you. The world is generally dumber and worse off. And on top of that! You might not even be … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMan in Wingsuit Flies Through a Narrow Opening Between Two Antennas
And the kick is good! I always think of a field goal in football whenever something splits the uprights of two standing posts only in this instance, it’s not a football and a goalpost but a human being in a wingsuit that’s flying through the narrow opening of two antennas. Watch as Guillame Galvani jumps … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIs Radiation Actually Dangerous for You?
Radiation is all around us and too much of radiation is a bad thing so… are we all just screwed from all the radio waves and microwaves and ultraviolet radiation and rainbows and x-rays and radon and nuclear radiation in the world? Not exactly. Ted-Ed explains in the video animation below how not all radiation … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidBeautiful Video Uses 1,250 Different Paintings to Show a Dancer Dancing
This is absolutely gorgeous. For the music video for Ralf Hildenbeutel’s Disco, director Boris Seewald had animators and dancers come up with 1,250 paintings on paper that moved like one continuos dance but also had them draw it in a style that was different each time so it feels like you’re watching something completely mind … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMagnetic Darts Are Scary Powerful
Need a weapon? Grab some magnets and some nails and you got yourself a hell of an arrow launcher. The magnets push out the nail darts so fast that it’s basically a mini crossbow mixed with a nailgun, no batteries necessary. Magnetic Games said that in order to get this powerful shot, the arrow and … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidInteresting Video Breaks Down the Different Kinds of Film Cuts Used in Movies
RocketJump Film School put together this really great video that shows us the different kinds of cuts and transitions that filmmakers use in their movies. By showing examples from both classic and modern movies, we get to see the tricks they employ. Cutting on action, cutting away, cross cutting back and forth, jump cuts, and … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt Takes a Shocking Amount of Molten Copper to Destroy a Big Mac
Well, this certainly makes you think. About how emptily delicious and briefly satisfying a Big Mac from McDonald’s is. Oh that Big Mac Sauce. Oh that middle bun. Oh those double patties. Eat it with some fries. Slurp it down with some Coke. Wonder if the Big Mac is actually an edible food thing because … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidFilm Scenes and the Art Paintings That Inspire Them, Side-By-Side
Film takes inspiration from the world around us so it’s no surprise that directors mimic art paintings in their movies. Vugar Efendi put together famous art paintings next to movie scenes to show how film meets art. It’s like seeing the paintings come to life. Some of them are so picturesque that it actually looks … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidBeautiful Video Zooms All Over Vienna, Austria
I’ve never been to Vienna but I can tell you that it is beautiful because this video by FilmSpektakel basically takes you all over the capital of Austria through a fun zooming effect that teleports you to different landmarks. It’s sort of like traveling on a haze of drugs and booze. SPLOID is delicious brain … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Ball of Magic Instantly Extinguishes Any Fire
The Elide fire ball must be filled with magic potion because it can get thrown into any fire and put it out immediately. Watch this demo video of it as it gets tossed around and turns flame into smoke. Sorcery! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contact the author … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidNeat Visualization Shows What’s Inside a Watch
What makes a watch tick? This exploded view of a mechanical watch shows the centuries old tech that’s still used to keep time without a battery. It’s all in the movement and the design, which is somehow harder for me to grasp than microchips and circuit boards. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe Eerily Powerful Gaze in Stanley Kubrick’s Films
It’s deeply unsettling when a character from films by Stanley Kubrick locks eyes with you through the fourth wall. They’re not entirely breaking the barrier but they do make it uneasy, like they know that we’re watching them. It’s a fairly common shot in his movies, which you’ll see in this video showing ‘The Kubrick … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhy Does English Have So Many Words That Mean the Same Damn Thing?
It’s because though English is a Germanic language (the grammar and core vocabulary comes from that), there are a lot of words that come from the Romance (Latin-based) languages too which was leaked into English when French-speaking Normans ruled England. That explains why there are a lot of twin words that mean the same thing … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid10 Plot Holes in Popular Movies That Can’t Be Explained Because They Screwed Up
Blockbuster movies that cost millions of dollars with hundreds of talented people working on them still manage to screw up all the time. Whether the screw ups pop up because of editing or deleted scenes or just plain forgetfulness, the most embarrassing movie mistakes are often in the giant sized plot holes that the filmmakers … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Easy to Understand Scale Model of Our Solar System Shows How Far Planet Nine Is
Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober cleverly built what is probably the easiest to understand scale model of our solar system. What’s even more interesting is that he included Planet Nine too in the scale model just to show how damn … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe History of Rock and Roll Told in an Incredibly Clever Way
Using a Facebook News Feed of sorts, Ithaca Audio breaks down the history of rock and roll in 15 minutes using 384 rock stars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, and 44 drummers in one crazy and totally awesome mashed up song. The Facebook timeline bit is cute but what’s really cool is how the songs blend … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidFlying Underwater Looks Like So Much Fun
Obviously, you can’t actually fly underwater because people can’t fly (and it wouldn’t even be called flying since you’re underwater) but using this subwing attached to a boat, you can completely submerge yourself underwater and make it feel like you’re gliding through the air (but really cutting through the ocean). God, it must be so … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Is Very Probably the Most Beautiful Bike Ride You Could Ever Take
If only this never ending swirl of beautiful landscapes actually existed on one bike trail. It would be the best ride you could ever get on a bike. Cleverly enough though, this short film called DreamRide by Juicy Studios shows Mike Hopkins riding through Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington and it makes it look … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow Many Lego Bricks Would It Take to Build Famous Sci-Fi Structures and Vehicles
It’s hard to truly grasp the size of famous science fiction megastructures like the Death Star or the Halo ring and basically impossible to understand how big the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise is because they all exist in different universes, which sadly isn’t the same one we exist in. If only we could look … Continued
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Cool Photo of a F-18 Flyby of an Aircraft Carrier
It’s like the F/A-18E Super Hornet is splitting the horizon as it flies through the line between ocean and sky. It’s actually just zipping through a flyby during an aerial change of command ceremony above the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier. Either way, it’s such a perfect picture of a giant mothership and aircraft.
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