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There's just something delightful about optical illusions, and for as much flak at 3D gizmos take, we're fans of eye-popping art nonetheless. NTT AT has unveiled a zany new product -- dubbed Amaze ART -- which transforms signs and colored blocks into actual objects when photographed. Presumably using technology similar to that found in your average green screen, the "signposts" sport squared sections of color and a drawn image of a particular item; when photographed, however, the card appears to be an actual object as seen above. The company was also displaying a unique (albeit laced with geekiness) set of glasses which featured cubes of varying color that "amazingly became animal heads" when seen through a camera's lens. It's cases like these where pictures offer a good deal more than words, so go ahead and hit the read link for some pictorial elucidation.

 

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True clock aficionados fully understand that their timepieces do more than tell them just how many grueling hours are left in the work day, and YUnoBI's Dancing On The Water design invites time tellers to gaze at its mirror-image rather than just glancing and looking away. The lacquered enclosure comes in black, red, and gray finishes, and shoots the current time up against a reflective back that purportedly gives off a "floating illusion." Furthermore, the red digits are displayed care of built-in LEDs, and while you may be eager to snap this presumed dust-magnet up as a crafty conversation piece, the ¥68,250 ($573) asking price just might stop you in your tracks.

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Garbage + illumination = art? Various artists carefully pile rubbish on a gallery floor, or meticulously assemble a collection of ordinary items, plug in a light source, and create incredibly detailed and surprising shadows on the wall. Meanwhile, blog commenters cry "Fake!" and "Photoshop!". I guess they didn't see any of the Quicktime movies of Shigeo Fukuda linked here.

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While we've already seen what tricks cameras can play right before our very eyes, kameraflage is a slightly different flavor of optical illusion. The patent-pending technology exploits the fact that cameras can see a broader spectrum of colors than our meager eyes, and as the creator puts it, "by rendering content in these invisible colors we are able to create displays that are invisible to the naked eye, yet can be seen when imaged with a digital camera." Currently, it's being applied to garments in able to for cameraphone addicts to find surprises all over while pointing their sensors at unsuspecting humans, and the tech will even be on display at the upcoming 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Unravel fashion show in San Diego. Best of all, custom orders will be fielded as early as September, and if we've got any interested VCs in the crowd, give this man a holler.

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Is the dancer spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? An optical illusion.
Ignore the right brain/left brain gobblydegook.

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See For Yourself - Purves Lab's optical illusions web page with empirical explanations of familiar and unfamiliar illusions.

Atom. -- The Clash of the Titans -- The Key to the Cosmos -- The Illusion of Reality

Interesting optical illusion demonstrating how our visual system isn't always perfect.