optical illusion

HaptoClone Creates Reflections That Have Haptic Feedback: Ghost with a Shell

Researchers from The University of Tokyo’s Shinoda – Makino Lab have created a mind-blowing device that clones both images and low amounts of haptic feedback. In other words, it creates reflections that you can “touch” and can “touch” you back. Invented by Yasutoshi Makino, Yoshikazu Furuyama and Hiroyuki Shinoda, HaptoClone…

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3D Floors Bring the Beach (and Vertigo) Indoors

When you think about over the top buildings, houses, and cars, one of the places that comes to mind is certainly Dubai. There is so much oil money in that country that people can afford to do just about anything you can dream up. A new product has turned up…

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Optical Illusion Warped Placemat: You’re Eating All of That?!

Japanese product design studio A.P. Works has an idea for a placemat that will make it seem like your food and dinnerware are warping spacetime itself, because the placemats’ lines curve right where the spoon, fork and plate should be. It would be a lot cooler if the placemats actually…

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Tokyoflash Kisai Maze Wood Watch Helps You Burn Some Time

While everyone else is talking about, waiting for or hating on the Apple Watch, Tokyoflash just keeps on keeping on. The watchmaker’s latest release is the Kisai Maze Wood, a wooden version of the Kisai Maze. In Maze mode, the watch displays the time as gaps in a maze. It’s…

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Super Mario Spiral Clock: Down the 16-Bit Hole

Every time is Super Mario time with this spiral clock featuring characters and icons from Nintendo’s timeless platformer. You might find it hard to tell the time on this clock because of its pseudo-asymmetrical look. That’s all I see when I look at this thing.…

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Mix Up Cosmic Cocktails with Gin, Tonic, and a Black Light

I love the occasional cocktail or two, but I’ve always had to keep it at a minimum. I’ve got my reasons, with the main one being the fact that I turn beet red once I consume even a drop (okay, several drops) of alcohol-laced fluids into my system. But I…

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Volkswagen Optism Optical Illusion Car Looks Like a Toy

Designer Sangwoo Lee has come up with a clever Volkswagen concept car that simultaneously looks awesome and at the same time a little silly. It reminds me of one of those Hot Wheels cars I had when I was a kid.…

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Tokyoflash Kisai Optical Illusion LCD Watch: Now You See It Now You Don’t

One of the biggest complaints that I’ve had with some of these Japanese watches is that you always have to push a button to check the time. Since Tokyoflash started working with more LCD displays, instead of only using LEDs, this problem has been somewhat solved – assuming you can…

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Flashed Face Distortion Effect: Ugly Optical Illusion

Sean Murphy was looking at sets of faces for one of his experiments when he observed something really freaky. Skimming fairly rapidly through pictures of two faces side-by-side, Murphy started noticing that some of the people he had pictures of had grotesque and deformed faces. But when he looked at…

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Perpetual Motion Machine? Nah. Just a Cool Optical Illusion Courtesy of M.C. Escher

This machine is claimed to be yet another one of those fabled “perpetual motion machines” that makes its way onto the Interweb every once in a while.…

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Tag: Optical Illusion

HaptoClone Creates Reflections That Have Haptic Feedback: Ghost with a Shell

3D Floors Bring the Beach (and Vertigo) Indoors

Optical Illusion Warped Placemat: You’re Eating All of That?!

Tokyoflash Kisai Maze Wood Watch Helps You Burn Some Time

Super Mario Spiral Clock: Down the 16-Bit Hole

Mix Up Cosmic Cocktails with Gin, Tonic, and a Black Light

Volkswagen Optism Optical Illusion Car Looks Like a Toy

Tokyoflash Kisai Optical Illusion LCD Watch: Now You See It Now You Don’t

Flashed Face Distortion Effect: Ugly Optical Illusion

Perpetual Motion Machine? Nah. Just a Cool Optical Illusion Courtesy of M.C. Escher

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