illusion
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Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck
There’s really not much to talk about here with a bunch of words. They’ll just get in the way of you pressing play and smiling like a little kid as your brain sort of automatically speculates on the possibilities of this in peoples’ homes....
Real Cloak of Invisibility? Company Develops Stealth Material!
Harry Potter had one. Frodo Baggins had one. Even Max from Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place had one. In fact, just about every single geek on the planet at some point in their life has probably hypothesized about how cool it would...
Illusion Makes You Believe You Have a Third Arm
Researchers in Sweden have successfully created the illusion of people feeling sensations in three arms at the same time. In five separate laboratory experiments, 154 volunteers were seated with their hands on a table and a rubber arm was...
UFO or Famous Landmark?
In this clip, a particularly well placed line of cloud cover makes the Seattle Space Needle look closer to a space ship. Check out the moving footage. [Gather]
Optical Illusion Morphs Gorgeous Celebrities Into Horrifying Trolls
Take a loot at the cross in the middle of this video. Keep you eyes focused on it. The faces that grace the covers of magazines and open films to multi-million dollar bonanzas suddenly turn into grossly deformed freaks. You will swear they...
The Optical Illusion that Explains Bloody Mary
The whiz kids at io9 have put together a compilation of research that explains why we see imaginary, monstrous faces when we look in the mirror for an elongated period of time. This is the very basis for sleepover games like Bloody Mary,...