OPTICAL ILLUSIONS & 3D

Kaleidoscope Antiquus

The Kaleidoscope is an optical instrument invented by David Brewster in 1816 and rapidly spread by the following years in all Europe. It consists of a cilinder whose interior is filled with small portions of coloured glass. The reflexion of these pieces on three flat mirrors creates endless combinations with different shapes when turning. Beauty, colour and variety have inspired artists and their ..

Kaleidoscope Brewster

The Kaleidoscope is an optical instrument invented by David Brewster in 1816 and rapidly spread by the following years in all Europe. It consists of a cilinder whose interior is filled with small portions of coloured glass. The reflexion of these pieces on three flat mirrors creates endless combinations with different shapes when turning. Beauty, colour and variety have inspired artists and their ..

Bee eyes Kaleidoscope

Brand new and high quality. Finished with completely non-toxic, child-friendly paints and finishes. Recommended Age: 3 years and up. Use this attractive Magico Kaleidoscope to see the world in new and exciting ways. Colorful, durable and perfectly-sized for a toddler. (2 pieces/lot) Dimensions: 5.5 x 5 x 5 cm Age: 3+

Binoculares con brújula

Catalejo Explorador

Colour in Motion Timer

A colorful way to demonstrate density. This tabletop demonstration has four chambers, each filled with a different colored liquid. Flip the demo over, and the colors will start to switch places, without mixing! Magic or density? Demonstrates density, color mixing, and insolubility. Dimensions: 13 cm x 7 cm x 2 cm

Dalí´s Clock

This decorative shelf clock shows time seeming to slowly "melt away," paying homage to Salvadore Dali’s surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory. This is both an amazing timepiece and an artistic conversation piece. Simply set the clock (it has easy-set quartz movement) and place it on the edge of a shelf or mantle -- no mounting or hardware required. The clock is the perfect addit..

FlipyFlux

A mesmerizing kinetic sculpture and an interactive "flow toy". Comes with a carrying bag, so you can bring it everywhere to share and spread the fun. The flipyflux is also very tactile (slightly addictive to play with!) and interactive - you can put your hands through it and run it safely along your arms (bare arms work best) and pass them from arm to another, or one person to another just for fun..

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Goethe Glasses

The name of the German poet is immediately associated to his magnum opus, Faust, but he said he did not get any vanity by it or for the rest of his works in verse. He said there were better poets in his time and that would best poets later. The legacy of that Goethe was proud Treaty Color, an essay, summarizing explained a viral phenomenon of 2015. Goethe was the first to ask (and answer) if that ..

Google 3D Glasses 2.0 Pop! Mr Cardboard design

What is Google Cardboard 2.0? Together with your Android or iOS mobile phone, the 2.0 Google cardboard app is your ticket to a virtual reality 3D world. Start the app or a video and put your smartphone in POP! CARDBOARD. For each eye, a separate, slightly different picture is shown on the display. This is how the 3D effect is created, so you can enjoy your very own 3D experience AS EASY AS 1-2-3: ..

Heromask

Holograms Projector for Smarthphone

The Holograms projector 4 faces pyramid, available for smartphone (on sale), tablet 7” and 10” version (soon in stock), is the “Holho smart line” starting product. Thanks to the 4 faces structure, it gives you a perfect 3d feeling, no matter the view angle. Download the apps/software from goo.gl/f0d2iS. In a few minutes you will be able to create a ready-to-use hologram pr..

Jaccob´s ladder queen and King

The Jacob´s ladder is one of the most ancient and famous folk optical toys. Legend has it that one was found in king tut´s tomb, which means these toys were played with in egypt before 1352 b.c. What is really true is that these toys date back to pilgrim times in america and were made by indigenous craftsmen throughout Mexico. The toy is called jacob´s ladder because its seemingl..

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Kit DIY Holographic 3D Pyramid for Smartphones

A Holograms projector 4 faces pyramid available for smartphone is now available as a low cost DIY version. Thanks to the 4 faces structure, it gives you a perfect 3d feeling, no matter the view angle. Download the apps/software from goo.gl/f0d2iS. In a few minutes you will be able to create a ready-to-use hologram projection, all by your own. Or, if you are an experienced and talented motion graph..

Lámpara 7 LED R2D2 Star Wars

Led Fingers

They'll call you rainbow fingers when you have this pack of 8 LEDs attached to elastic rings with 3" long fiber optic bundles on the front. You will get 1 LED/bundle for each finger--red, white,blue and green--and the fiber optics are removable. You will just might be able to use these as brushes on a snare drum with enough amplification, and the audience would love it. Suitable for the amusement..

Luz de Fibra Optica

Turn on this battery operated light and light will emanate from the tip of each fiber optic strand. Great for pool, beach, baby showers or any other type of parties.

Magic Lantern

In the days before television and cinema, a Magic Lantern show would have been an amazing experience, and these often reached high levels of sophistication. Ghostly images were projected onto clouds of smoke, multiple lanterns and background sound effects added to the impact, and there were even animated slides, and slides that showed scenes that changed from night to day and back again! This car..

Magic Mirror

The distorted forms or Anamorphosis was a very popular instrument during the XIX century. It consists of hidden figures appearing when projected on a reflecting surface, as a cilinder, cone or piramide. Although the terminology "anamorphosis" was first used in the XVII century, Leonardo Da Vinci described it on his notes. - Measures of each sheet: 21cm x 21cm.

Mind Sword

Mystify your friends with the amazing illusion of the Mind Sword! Move objects with your mind! Make the glowing sword fly into your hand! Levitate the Mind Sword out of a glass! Learn many tricks quickly by watching the instructional video (secret access code inside this package Click here) - Move Objects with Your Mind!- Summon the Flying Sword to Your Hand!- Levitate the Sword out of the Glass!..

Mirascope 3d

The 3D Mirascope creates a 3D hologram image right before your eyes. When you place a small object in the center of the Mirascope, it appears to be floating in mid-air. If you try and touch the image, your fingers just go right through it! You'll spend hours at your desk, trying to touch different objects, but you won't be able to. Show it to your co-workers and they'll be amazed. It's also fun fo..

Mistery UFO

Mystify your friends as your UFO hovers and floats all around you! Only you will know how it works! This amazing effect sets up in under 15 seconds! Throw it like a flying disc, spin it like a top, and make it hover and float! No one will ever guess it’s an illusion! No batteries or remote control needed. It is completely silent! Detailed instructions inside. (Click here for trick code) ..

Moving Sand Pictures Art in Motion

These relaxing Sand Pictures always look different thanks to the mixture of sand, water and air inside forming a microcosm that achieves fascinating landscapes. Just tilt the frame slightly to enjoy new shapes: small deserts, mountains, clouds, rain, smoke… they come and go, mixing each other. Features: - Size: 15cm x 20cm x 3cm. - Weight: 150g.

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Myriorama

The "Myriorama" was a very well-known entertainment during the XIX century. The first publish Myriorama is dated on 1830 in Leipzig. This game contains 16 illustrations which can be mixed together randomly and will show thousands of different landscapes. Dimensions of the box: 18.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 1.6 cm.

Neon Pin Art

Sure you know the legendary Pin Art from the eighties, already part of pop culture. It's a game consisting of a rectangular frame containing hundreds of nails that can be slid back and forth, by which three-dimensional shapes can be created. As easy as putting the Pin Art horizontally with nails stuck into the frame, place the object that you want to get up and turn the form. It only remains to pl..

Peonza Disco Newton

Periscope

Explore around corners and over walls with this fun and colourful mirror based periscope. Plastic break resistant mirrors for safe and clear viewing. Expanded height 56cm. Age: 8 and above.

Pin Art

Sure you know the legendary Pin Art from the eighties, already part of pop culture. It's a game consisting of a rectangular frame containing hundreds of nails that can be slid back and forth, by which three-dimensional shapes can be created. As easy as putting the Pin Art horizontally with nails stuck into the frame, place the object that you want to get up and turn the form. It only remains to pl..

Praxinoscope Lumiere

Praxinoscope During the nineteenth century it became important to study the peculiarities of the human eye and found that if 16 images of a movement that takes place in a second are passed on also on a second, the persistence of vision unites them and makes them look like a single moving image. This discovery about the persistence of the retina, which it maintains, through a complicated neurologi..

Reverse Perspective 3D Acrópolis

A three dimensional experience of ancient Greek Architecture that highlights the beauty of the Caryatids and the scale and sophistication of the Parthenon while being framed by the classic panoramic view experienced from the top of the Acropolis. It could provide a stimulating way to remember a holiday, an inspiration for children to consider the lives of Ancient cultures, or simply an aesthetical..

Reverse Perspective 3D Venice

This image is a joy to look at as the softness of the Venetian canals is brought to life by the engaging three dimensional effect. The delicate balance of colour and reflection creates the sense of a romantic boat ride along the Grand Canal, with the shell like surface decoration of the House of Gold, the intricate and colourful mosaics of the Palazzo Barbarigo and the awe inspiring Gothic archite..

Reverse Perspective 3DTrick of the Eye

This image is a real mindbender for those that really enjoy optical effects. The reverse perspective technique is ideally suited to enhance the effect of these classic optical illusions. The use of parallel horizontal lines in each of the four effects are ideal to draw the viewer into the three dimensional effect only to have ones mind twisted and turned by the illusions created by the distorted v..

Reverse Perspective Picture Juan Muñoz 3D Magic Motif

This full and balanced image uses the intriguing visual effect of a repeated motif and is inspired by the work of Juan Muñoz and in particular his piece entitled "The Waste Land". The image presents the viewer with an intriguing dilema of perspective as one tries to fathom the multiple three dimensional effects and multiple ways of looking at the image. This contemporary image is visually ..

Rotating Prisma Light Projector

Compact sensory lighting that projects a Kaleidoscope of Colourful Light into your room. Small but with big effects, this mini disco ball light projects a moving kaleidoscope of colour onto the surfaces in your room. Just the right size for use on your desktop, colourful waves of light are projected out onto surrounding surfaces creating mesmerising patterns. Battery operated, this fun little ligh..

Smartphone Speaker for Cinema Projector

We’re thinking world gadget domination, one Smartphone product at a time! Smartphone Speaker is the audio sister to the renowned Smartphone Projector (http://bit.ly/1S67Z8b). Boasting 40 hours playback and impressive sound quality and volume whilst remaining lightweight and compact, the Smartphone Speaker is the perfect accessory for camping at festivals, days in the park, kicking back by th..

Smartphones Projector

Ever wanted to project your favourite movie onto the wall while you’re snuggled up in bed using just your phone? Or thought it would be cool to show your mates funny fail videos but sometimes there’s just too many of them to crowd around a small screen? Smartphone Projector has been designed by Luckies of London to create intimate screenings any time, any place. Whether you want to set up visu..

Smartphones Projector 2.0

Ever wanted to project your favourite movie onto the wall while you’re snuggled up in bed using just your phone? Or thought it would be cool to show your mates funny fail videos but sometimes there’s just too many of them to crowd around a small screen? Smartphone Projector has been designed by Luckies of London to create intimate screenings any time, any place. Whether you want to set up visu..

Stereoscope

Binocular vision (from Latin bini, oculos double eye) is one in which both eyes are used together within the same visual field, thus creating a single three-dimensional image. Each of our eyes sees a slightly different image, our brain being responsible for putting them together to create a single (stereopsis) giving the image a volume through which we are able to calculate distances. Stereopsis w..

Telescopic view

Telescopic view This optical product is considered to be an exciting entertaiment during century in Europe. It's original from England. It divides scene levels, landscape, interior in such a way the looking through and aperture placed in the front, you will be able to see this scenes in 3D. It's a view of the Cristal Palace opening ceremony by Queen Victory. Features (opened): Height: 19 cm. W..

Thaumatrope

The Taumatrope is an optical instrument which was produced for the first time by John Ayrton Paris in England on 1824. His aim was to prove that retina is inclined to persist in a course of action or movement. It contains a disc with two different images in each side and two tied ropes. When pulling the ropes, both sides of the disc will come together in one image. The taumatrope was the precedent..

Toupie fantoche

La Toupie fantoche is an optical toy invented by Emile Reyanaud in 1881 and it´s a modification of his first invention: the praxinoscope. It consists of four triangulars mirrors that form a pyramid. In the vertex the discs are placed, in such a way every drawing stays opposite every mirror. When turning the drawing seemed to summon up life. Eight discs are accompanying the instrument with il..

Toupie fantoche base

La Toupie Fantoche is an optical toy invented by Emile Reyanaud in 1881 and it´s a modification of his first invention: the praxinoscope. It consists of four triangulars mirrors that form a pyramid. In the vertex the discs are placed, in such a way every drawing stays opposite every mirror. When turning the drawing seemed to summon up life. Eight discs are accompanying the instrument with il..

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Universal Telescope for Smartphones

The telescope. It is a basic tool in the study of the stars and astronomy has benefited greatly from his invention. Galileo Galilei was one of the first users of this device and thanks to his telescope could score in great detail characteristics of celestial bodies like Jupiter or the moon, were hitherto unknown. Several types of telescopes: refractors, lenses using reflectors: They have a concave..

Universal Telescope for Smartphones

The telescope. It is a basic tool in the study of the stars and astronomy has benefited greatly from his invention. Galileo Galilei was one of the first users of this device and thanks to his telescope could score in great detail characteristics of celestial bodies like Jupiter or the moon, were hitherto unknown. Several types of telescopes: refractors, lenses using reflectors: They have a concave..

Universe Lights Projector

A spectacle of lights at your fingertips, the color of the universe decorating your room. The cosmos will open in front of you, creating a unique experience with this Projector. Note: It is not realistic. Do not wait to discover real constellations, simply is alighting effect to decorate your room or your kid´s. It can create a cosy and romantic atmosphere or simply use it as a light rel..

Universe Lights Projector DIYJapanese

A spectacle of lights at your fingertips, the color of the universe decorating your room. The cosmos will open in front of you, creating a unique experience. Note: It is not realistic. Do not wait to discover real constellations, simply is alighting effect to decorate your room or your kid´s. It can create a cosy and romantic atmosphere or simply use it as a light relaxing when you go to..

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Zoetrope. Optical toy

Zootrope During the nineteenth century it became important to study the peculiarities of the human eye and found that if 16 images of a movement that takes place in a second are passed on also on a second, the persistence of vision unites them and makes them look like a single moving image. This discovery about the persistence of the retina, which it maintains, through a complicated neurological ..