Japan’s economical provider of weird products does it again, with a battery powered infinity mirror light. Who doesn’t need one of those?
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Animation is the art of tricking the eye, but this is one trick we never would have noticed.
Previously focused on boob-based fantasies, the Delusion Mapping design team can now provide you with an imaginary feline buddy.
”Clear files” aren’t really clear, which is what makes this optical alteration possible.
Labor of love makes the latest Gundam mecha look like something from anime’s heady hand-drawn peak.
Even the pet’s owner was surprised to look down and see the cat become part of the environment like this.
Every once in a while we like to post an optical illusion that’s trending in Japan at the moment, and this time around we bring you the McCollough effect. However, this is one optical illusion you probably shouldn’t go through with.
Don’t get us wrong, we’re going to post the illusion for the sake of reporting on it, but you might want to consider some of our other wonderful articles instead. I read a lovely piece about sacred horses the other day.
The reason we are dissuading you from checking out this optical illusion is that its effect might not go away for quite some time. Studies have reported some after-effects last over three months. So last chance to turn back and check out our list of beautiful Japanese train stations instead.
No? Okay suit yourself and don’t say we didn’t warn you…because we’re still going to continue to warn you.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought, “I’m going to achieve the impossible today and build a perpetual motion machine!”? Well, Niconico user LupinIII didn’t exactly think that, but earlier this month he uploaded a video of what seems to be an impossible object on a Japanese video-sharing site: a deceivingly simple, Escher-esque structure with four slopes, upon which a marble continuously rolls. The video quickly garnered over 250,000 views, reaching number one in the science and technology category.
Read on to watch the mystifying video at the end of the article and learn a bit more about how the crafty paper structure was designed and built!
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