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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action You know that amazing Halloween costume you’ve been crafting for the past month? I’m sorry you wasted all that time because this Pure Smoke illusion — that magically conjures up puffs of vapour from your bare hands — has easily got you beat.
This optical illusion is one of the weirdest, freakiest brain phenomenon I’ve ever experienced. It’s called the flashed face distortion effect, but just follow the instructions in the video and experience it for yourself, then read the description:
It’s no David Copperfield, but in this day and age surely that’s a good thing? Winner of the Best Illusion of the Year contest, this moving circle of dots tricks the eye into seeing changing colour even when they’re not.
Watching a real life version of Escher’s Impossible Waterfall melts my brain. The more I look at, the more confused I get! Thankfully, the secret on how the whole illusion works is out. There’s clear DIY instructions on how to make your own impossible waterfall on Instructables and that video above shows what’s really going on.
Everyone relax. While the jury may be out on abundant life on other planets we can squash this other space-related “second sun” story out of China. Our solar system has not sprouted a second sun and we are not on Tatooine. It was a mirage.
Remember this? Still pretty crazy! But maybe a little less so after taking a look at David Goldman’s theory of how exactly this contraption was put together:
