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How to Fold Your Hoodie Into a Pillow or a Laptop Bag
Hoodie: noun: hoody; plural noun: hoodies; noun: hoodie → Read More
How to Pack for a Weekend Trip
Last weekend I went to Hudson, NY, to enjoy some really good food. I took my good old Condor 3-day assault pack and followed this advice on how to pack for a weekend trip. The video says that I should only pack whatever is strictly necessary but, just in case, I added three more underpants (because there’s never enough underpants.) → Read More
The Best Ways to Pack a Suit or Dress So It Won't Wrinkle
If you need to travel with a suit or dress packed in a suitcase, you will avoid—or at least minimize—wrinkles and creases using these simple tricks. → Read More
Marines blow up concrete walls protected only by a blanket
Watch US Marines with the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, 9th Engineer Support Battalion show how they get into buildings. The most amazing part is when they blow a concrete wall while they all stand there in line, just protected by a ballistic blanket. These guys are nuts. → Read More
Christopher Lee's last message feels like a premonitory farewell
I’m a huge fan of Sir Christopher Lee. Not only did he have a wicked sense of humor and a great life philosophy, but he was a fantastic—and very underappreciated!—actor. After I saw his first film in Hammer’s Dracula series, he visited my childhood nightmares every day. He terrified me—and I loved every bit of it. → Read More
How to make watermelon vodka slushy with a drill and a wire hanger
This has to be one of the best summer alcoholic drinks ever. And it’s so fun to make: You just need a watermelon, a vodka bottle, a wire hanger and a drill. Yes, you read that well—a wire hanger and a drill! → Read More
Incredible video of an air tanker refueling a tanker against a full moon
Without a doubt, this is one of the coolest airplane videos I have ever seen. Thanks to the magic of telephoto lenses, the moon in this infrared clip looks impossibly gigantic. The fact that a KC-10 tanker is refueling another KC-10 tanker make the entire thing feel unreal—as in “I had a hard time believing this wasn’t some kind of fake” unreal. → Read More
Revive Your Dried-Out Eye Mascara In Seconds with Your Microwave
Here’s a cool simple trick to revive eye mascara that is almost empty or dried-out. Two simple steps, a few seconds in the microwave, and you will be able to use every single drop inside of that tube. → Read More
Robert Downey Jr. delivers real Iron Man bionic arm to armless kid
I'm a sucker for happy stories, I make no excuses. So, when I saw Alex—a seven-year-old boy who was born with a partially developed arm and loves superheroes—meeting with Tony Stark himself—played by Robert Downey Jr—my heart started to melt. Then I saw Alex in awe with his new bionic arm, I was like... → Read More
Wow, China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days
Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day! → Read More
Spectacular new photo of a very special star
The Universe is a truly incredible place. This spectacular new photo by the Hubble space telescope—showing a young star known as V1331 Cyg, 1,800 light years away from Earth—is proof #251,603,995,874. It's a special star. → Read More
Case solved: This is the true color of that goddamn white and gold dress
In what may be the biggest case of mass hysteria ever experienced in the history of the internet, everyone in the planet speculated tonight about what's the color of a stupid dress. Some people even claimed it changed color.* Others looked for Photoshop analysis or scientific explanations. Here is the true color. → Read More
First images of the world's largest airplane
Holy crap, it's real! Behold the first glimpse of Paul Allen's crazy space venture: The largest airplane in history, a 385-foot (117-meter) wingspan beast designed to carry and launch a giant rocket to space, with a combined weigh of 1,200,000 pounds (540,000 kg)! Check out the mind-blowing photos. → Read More
China used more concrete in 3 years than the US in 100 years
Bill Gates has an incredible statistic: According the USGS' cement statistics, China has used more concrete from 2011 to 2013 (6.6 gigatons) than the United States in the entire 20th century (4.5 gigatons). It blows my mind but, then again, as Gates point out, look at Shanghai's evolution in just 20 years... → Read More
NASA Satellite Image Shows How Damn Cold It Is
Forget looking at historical temperate graphs and referencing how cold the North Pole is: it get your head around how goddamn frozen you are right now, just located your house on this satellite picture, and let out a hollow, chilled laugh as you succumb to the hypothermia. → Read More
The only fun fact about Apollo 13's dramatic failure is this invoice
I didn't know about this fun factoid: On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services. Why, you ask? Here's the story. → Read More
Fascinating photos reveal how they built the SR-71 Blackbird
Built and designed in the 1960s after the A-12 Oxcart, the SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest, most vanguardist air-breathing airplane in the history of aviation. These once classified photos reveal how Lockheed built both birds in secret, in California. They look taken at the Rebel base in Hoth. → Read More
The story of the ultrasecret A-12 Oxcart—father of the SR-71 Blackbird
It may look like the SR-71 Blackbird, but this sleek flying beast is not the most famous supersonic spy plane ever created but its father, the A-12 Oxcart. In some ways, it was a better machine than the famous Blackbird. This is its history. → Read More
All the faces of Ultron: The design evolution of the Avengers' archenemy
Outstanding illustration of the new Ultron on the cover of Empire this week. I remember how fascinated I was the first time I saw Ultron in Avengers. It was issue #162, published in 1977—I saw it much later because it arrived to Spain in the 80s. Here's how artists changed Ultron's appearance through the years: → Read More
Amazing new metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic
Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a metal that is so extremely hydrophobic that the water bounces on it as if it were repelled by a magic force field. Instead of using chemical coatings they used lasers to etch a nanostructure on the metal itself. It will not wear off, like current less effective methods. → Read More