brainwagon

Where your host describes a number of interesting gadgets and gizmos, and then plays some Halloween sounding music: Links from the show: The Aiptek DV4500, pictures, video and sound files coming soon. Grayson: a film trailer created by amateurs, telling the story of Dick Grayson, aka Robin Jeri Ellsworth designed the Commodore One, a clone [...]

A classic illusion is the hollow face illusion, where a concave casting of the face appears convex. This is demonstrated neatly here, with a simple cardboard cutout whose head appears to track you as you move around. Very neat. There are lots of other cool illusions on the parent website, check them out too.

Over the weekend, Julian Gomez informed me of a project that he thought (correctly) that I might be interested in: The L Prize. What is that, you say? Best answer from their website: The L PRIZE is a new and exciting open competition that will be officially launched fall 2004 by an independent team led [...]