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If Apple makes this Apple TV, they will win the living room wars
This. This is what Apple needs to beat everyone: A $99 Apple TV with the graphic oomph of an iPhone 5S, plus a new larger remote that doubles as a full gamepad and a motion joystick—like the Nintendo Wiimote. If this concept becomes a reality, Cupertino really can win the living room. Images by Martin … Continued
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A new Game of Thrones trailer that you need to watch because fhqwhgads
Its April 6 premiere is around the corner, and the Game of Thrones Season 4 trailers keep piling up like dead Starks at a wedding. The new trailer shows fans—myself included—more stuff to make us go aaashkahgskjghslkjdghsdf. Enjoy! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Watch the Chinese Air Force bombing the Yellow River to destroy its ice
The Yellow River has been completely frozen for weeks. China’s flood prevention authority decided that, before the snow melts and a huge clusterfuck ensues, they should destroy de ice and make it flow again. So they said: “Let’s ask the air force to bomb it because—fun!” China’s Air Force sent a few airplanes loaded with … Continued
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The first 11 minutes of Captain America 2 are a lot of fun—watch here
Wow. Marvel just released the first 11 minutes of Captain America 2: Winter Soldier—which will premiere on April 4. Lots of action happens in those minutes and, funnily enough, most of it is Scarlett Johansson kicking some serious ass in her tight Black Widow suit. At the beginning, Cap meets Sam Wilson for the first … Continued
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I never get tired of seeing lunatics flying into this deadly canyon
Another day, another insane person in a wingsuit who decides to fly into a narrow canyon full of razor-sharp rocks. This time it’s “athlete and flying cowboy Marshall Miller” going through the Beehive line, in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Strikingly beautiful pictures show the horrors of the BP oil spill
Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá took these images for the book Spill (which you can buy here.) They’re beautiful, perfectly crafted shots despite their horrible—and gut-wrenching to the point of nausea—subject matter: The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The incompetence of British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean killed 11 people and … Continued
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This looks like an F-16 flying an inch over a perfectly calm lake
Ron Elkind took some really cool photos at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, like these two USAF F-16 from the Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron mirroring each other. https://gizmodo.com/the-1989-b-2-bomber-still-feels-like-a-plane-from-2089-1546174229
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The 1989 B-2 bomber still feels like a plane from the future—or a UFO
Photographer Ron Elkind sent us some cool airplane photos taken at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Like this is the B-2 Spirit of Florida with its weapons bays open—mouths of destruction that can vomit anything from bunker busters to nuclear nombs. Or this beautiful F-16 shot. It feels like a mirror image, but they are … Continued
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Is this anti-gravity wheel a magic trick or just cool physics?
A man effortlessly lifts a 42-pound weight at the end of a long rod over his head. It seems like it’s floating! What is this sorcery? Is this guy a wizard? Perhaps he has discovered an anti-gravity device to make Back to the Future skateboards? Actually, it’s just good old physics in action. First watch … Continued
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The way they filmed this car chase scene is absolutely genius
Not everyone has Alfonso Cuarón’s budget to build the car rig used in Children of Men’s 4.1-minute long tracking car sequence, so when The Raid 2’s director Gareth Evans and his team had to film this car chase scene they had be really clever. Turn-a-cameraman-into-a-car-seat genius-level clever. The action starts around the 9-minute mark: SPLOID … Continued
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Physicist rejoices as he learns his Big Bang theory is correct
Today is a great day for science, humanity and Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde—one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory that was confirmed today. Watch his emotions as assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises him with the news of the evidence that supports a whole life of theoretical work. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-capture-first-ever-signal-from-the-beginning-1545578133 Kuo and his colleagues were … Continued
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This is the most ridiculous Bloody Mary ever and I want it all
Believe it or not, this is a Bloody Mary. The most ridiculous Bloody Mary ever, an entire mega-brunch in a glass, but still a Bloody Mary. Check out the entire thing. The Bloody Mary may be one of humanity’s greatest inventions but, as you can see in these images collected by The Vulgar Chef, it … Continued
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The history of dancing in film in one 246-movie supercut
Film history is full of dancing. Romance, drama, spy thrillers, musical, comedy, terror, even war movies. It doesn’t matter. There’s dancing in every genre. This supercut demonstrates it, compressing 246 films in one groovy supercut set to the Bee Gee’s You Should Be Dancing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on … Continued
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I really wish there were races of these awesome spider mechs
Since I was a little kid, my favorite car racing liveries in the world are Martini, Marlboro, and Gulf. Maybe that’s why I love so much these racing machines created by Alex Jaeger, an industrial designer and VFX Art Director at Industrial Light & Magic. That and because they are damn cool. Alex Jaeger is … Continued
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GoPro video shows how it would be to see life through Superman’s eyes
Someone put a GoPro on Superman’s head so we could all experience what he sees on his day to day. Or maybe someone put a GoPro on a quadcopter and then changed the speed and added some clever effects to get this great little video. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us … Continued
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Scientists capture first ever signal from the beginning of the Universe
It looks like an explosion from an 80s game, but you’re looking at the first direct proof of the event that started the Universe—the Big Bang. Those black lines represent the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which “could have been produced by gravitational waves created by inflation” as predicted by Einstein. If confirmed, it … Continued
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9-year-old kid debates asteroid destruction with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Seriously folks, you need to watch 9-year-old Jacob debating about how to deflect or destroy asteroids that may hit Earth with Cosmos’ host Neil de Grasse Tyson. The non-Newtonian fluid line is pure gold. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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All the airplanes that have mysteriously vanished since 1948
As this Bloomberg map shows, Malaysian flight 370 is not the first flight to mysteriously disappear. 83 flights have vanished since 1948—80 of them never to be found again (the dots in yellow). This map only includes flights capable of carrying more than 14 passengers. Some more curious stats: Five planes were missing in the … Continued
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Even cooler parents actually sing Frozen song perfectly
What the hell, internet, will the Frozen-mania ever stop? Check out these videos of people making fun of the picture-perfect parents from Texas and besting them in the process. First, these parents really sing the song Love Is an Open Door. It actually sounds as good as the original. https://gizmodo.com/amazing-parents-perfectly-lip-sync-to-frozens-love-is-1542621446 Then there’s these twins, which … Continued
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Spectacular photo of a woman climbing a vertical rock wall at night
According to a Redditor, Scott Jarvie took this cool night photo of Julia Wooten at a rock climbing route in Papago Park, located between the cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona. Here’s the entire photo in its original orientation: It doesn’t seem like a montage to me—after getting it through Photoshop—and apparently that’s the view … Continued
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