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What does this tell us about sensation & perception?
See more of these ads at - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-ads-from-att-wireless-international-roaming/
(Thanks to Laura for sending)
"You'd be able to literally see all around you, including behind yourself, and zooming in at will, creating a "stereoscopic/binocular system, simultaneously providing 10x zoom to both eyes." And you would do this all hands-free, apparently by barking out or pre-programming a command (the solicitation leaves it up to a designer's imagination) to adjust focus."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/pentagon-wants-to-give-troops-terminator-vision/
This is an interesting site that makes small pieces of foam board look like full size buildings. What do we know about our perceptual system that can explain how this happens?
http://www.009.cd2.com/members/how_to/nouaillier_a.htm
"Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist that creates amazing unique sculptures made from a different plastic pieces like spoons, forks, toys and similar. She creates sculptures of different animals from a thousands of plastic pieces."
http://sciencehax.com/2010/02/animal-sculptures-made-of-hundreds-of-plastic-pieces/
When Christian Jahn, a 37-year-old graduate student, was 13, he wouldn't leave the house without wearing a heavy Arctic jacket. In Southern California, that was enough to set him apart. But Christian was obsessed with what he deemed an even more troubling physical anomaly: He was terrified of his own face.
Over the next 15 years, Jahn almost flunked out of college, then dropped out of law school - all because of a fixation on physical flaws. Then he caught an episode of "Oprah" about obsessive compulsive disorder. A little more online research yielded another related illness: body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Suddenly, Jahn's mysterious and life-altering condition had a name.
To read more click the link below:
New Research May Help Those Afraid of Own Looks
"NASA's HiRISE camera, the most powerful camera ever sent into space, has snapped breathtaking portraits of Mars. From 'trees' on Mars to an 'organic cemetery,' see the 'Red Planet's' craters, dunes, gullies, and even avalanches in stunning detail in the slideshow below."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/mars-pictures-nasas-most_n_431137.html
How does the brain resolve ambiguity? Experience this for yourself when you watch this slide show. Use a little introspection and 'watch' how your brain tries to go about it's job making sense of the extraordinary pictures in this slide show.
What do we know about perception that might make up believe her leg was photoshopped off?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/06/emma-watson-for-burberrys_n_413731.html
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