Smart videos for curious minds of all ages.
Which way is the chair facing? Watch the Dezeen video above and see if you’ve guessed correctly. The black lacquered plywood chair, one of three designed by French design studio Ibride, references furniture design from history, but it also hides an illusion in its silhouette: The Hidden Chairs.
Watch more optical illusion videos, including the Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion and the Impossible Rooftop & Folding Ladder Illusions.
Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka studies and makes visual illusions in the psychology department at Kyoto's Ritsumeikan University. In the illusion above, via Twitter, he demonstrates the footstep illusion. It's explained o...
This DIY Spiral Staircase was made with just over sixteen 12-layer plywood steps that are each rotated 30 degrees around a central steel pole. Designer and YouTuber Ben Uyeda of HomeMade Modern designed the layers to ...
In just seven minutes, a man expertly weaves a charpai bed, also known as a charpoy, charpaya, or manji-style bed, around a metal bed frame. The video, uploaded by chintu arya, shows the creation of a simple diagonal ...
Have you ever come across an oddly stretched image on the sidewalk, only to find that it looks remarkably realistic if you stand in exactly the right spot? These sidewalk illusions employ a technique called anamorphos...
Second place winner of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2016, this is the Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion by mathematics professor Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan. The direct views of the obj...
Turning hyperrealism into a video guessing game, illustrator and illusionist of sorts Howard Lee draws objects on paper that attempt to reach photographic levels of detail. Above, his Drawing Trick with Marbles. B...
From former magician/current author and British psychologist Richard Wiseman, enjoy these 10 amazing DIY optical illusions that you can try at home: A LEGO impossible object, a kiwi triangle, an appearing straw, an up...
From former magician/current author and British psychologist Richard Wiseman, watch Assumptions, a 2012 short promotional video from his psychology-based Quirkology YouTube channel. Below, enjoy The Tube of Mystery an...
From New York-based Sebastian Errazuriz Studio, this functional sculpture is called Wave, a baltic birch cabinet that opens in a variety of beautifully fluid ways thanks to its 100 connected slices. Errazuriz explains...
Watch as Grand Illusions' Hendrik Ball deftly showcases The Mephisto Spiral, a brain-breaking toy that seems to mix an optical illusion with a bit of the slight-of-hand skills required for magic tricks: It looks li...
