Ever wonder what a _ looks like after you cut it perfectly in half? Wonder no more, we’ve got pictures of exactly that! Ever wonder what a human looks like cut in half? Well, we don’t have pictures of that, but a quick image search of the human anatomy post autopsy might satisfy that curiosity (we’re not responsible for any scarring that may occur).
As you’re about to see, cutting objects in half can inspire the artful imagination and give us an interesting sneak peak as to how many complex inventions are set up to work.
1. Padlock

Locks have to be one of the most complicated, yet simply useful inventions ever created in the history of mankind! They’re a small, yet incredibly useful tool that’s everywhere you go, and it’s affecting you whether you realize it or not! Every time you’re about to leave home and want to keep the burglars out, what do you use? A lock! Every time you want some privacy to do your business in the restroom, what do you use? A lock!

Admit it, you’ve been in at least one situation where you wish you knew how to pick one of these things. Whether you’ve gotten locked out of your car, or you want to expose the secrets of your sister’s diary, a lock can be the one thing keeping you from your true desire! If you’ve ever gone through the frustration of trying to pick one of these, you’ve probably wondered how a little piece of metal could be so stubborn as to keeping you out of the valuable access of your sought object. A look at these dillies cut perfectly in half can reveal the complex nature of this invention, and the precise intricacies that the key needs to be shaped in, in order to grant your passageway. A key is like your modern day, metal password!
2. Leopard 1 Tank

The latest in military technology shows a tank that can split right down the middle, mid-use! Need backup, but they’re over twenty miles away? No problem! Part ways and hit your opponent from two different angles at once!

Who needs camouflage when you can attack with one half of a tank, and have the other half sneak around the enemy, and hit them from the rear end, how cool! You know, that sounds like a really cool idea, why are we not developing a tank that can split? Or even better yet, ride into battle in style as your tank speeds down the highway and takes on the opposition head-on, while a sidecar tank splits off to help fight the battle! Your tank with a mini tank, since we can’t exactly split and attack yet. Or can we…
3. Office Printer

Your office printer getting jammed again? Why do these things never seem to work? I mean, it should be simple enough, right? Splitting the device in half reveals just how complex the machine is. You’ve got your RGB colored inks, different tanks for black ink, the loaded (possibly heavy)paper, and the motherboard of technology that prints out your text for you.

So next time you’re smacking the copier for not working properly, remember that the intricacies of the design and technology behind printing words on a paper, is a little more complex than it sounds.
4. Toothpaste

It’s funny how products find fun ways to integrate colors into their mix, I guess to appeal to customers. For example, a very funny and plain old cereal just has to add cartoonish marshmallows to make us crave more.

While I don’t think we’ll want to much on toothpaste the same way we’ll want to munch on cereal, you can’t help but feel like you’re getting the same swirling sensation in your eyes.
5. Jawbreaker

Another product to add swirls, even though we probably won’t see them as they’re in use (in our mouths)! The jawbreaker is definitely creative and colorful, I’ll give it that.

The way each ring of color is its own unique color and flavor reminds me of a unique parallel to our very own earth! Hopefully no one will be trying to chew on us anytime soon.
6. Grenade

Oh goodness, do not give me the job to cut this object in half. Whoever signed up to try and cut a grenade in half is either insane, or behind a bulletproof glass, fifty feet away, using robots to do the dirty work for them. Either way, it’s neat to see how their design can give a soldier enough time to throw the piece of metal far away from them.

Without the technology of a timed detonation, the user would have to be right next to the target and be at even greater risk of hurting themselves!
7. Engine

Every part in a car serves a purpose to a complex puzzle, with its only purpose to provide us with the most popular mode of transportation around (in most cities).

Looking at how the engine is designed, you can’t help but wonder how many hours and failed layouts ended up not working.
8. Motorcycle

With the obvious complexities of an engine, how about one that you can ride on at high speeds?

I like to think of motorcycles as the on-road airplanes, they have to move fast while being agile enough to cut through winds, and you have to be able to sit on the motor.
9. Wooden Paint Mixer

This I found really interesting: a painter used the same piece of wood to mix his paint while painting houses for more than fifty years! Over time, paint dried and layered itself over itself to create a swirl of mixed colors.

After that much dedication it’s surprising the owner would be willing to cut it in half!
10. Old Television

Out with the old…. And get thinner! Seeing an ancient television get cut in half reveals why their bulky design ended up being so heavy and dominant in the space they took up.

Did you know, there was once an April Fools’ Day joke that convinced people that holding up panty hose to the screen could add color to black and white televisions?
11. Colt 1911

Talk about menacing! Seeing a gun cut in half seems more intimidating being able to see all the bullets loaded and ready to launch, like a mini missile launcher.

Sure they have the machine guns where the rolls of bullets are loaded manually, but this is almost stylish, don’t you think? Remember, every piece serves a purpose!
12. Russian Submarine

First off, how in the world did they pull this off? Submarines are underwater war vessels designed to withstand bullets and missile fire, all while doing some sneaky swimming. I imagine a lot of dented saws were the result of giving us the image above. What’s also neat is that if you look closely, each compartment has a different use. Some look like offices for paper work, others appear to be living quarters, and some sections simply provide the pipework.
13. Piñata

Here we come to the greatest picture on this list, a piñata! Little do most people know, there’s magic to bringing these characters to life. The newspaper and decorative paper are just the cover up to the guts and human parts… that eventually spill out as candy.
If the same were true for humans, would we be besting each other even more for candy? The world may never know! So next time you see something new in technology, or a product riddled with colors, imagine what it would look like cut in half. You may get some very unexpected results.