Awesome Illusions

Anyone can perform this simple optical illusion with a glass tumbler, a sheet of paper and some water. We never realized that when objects are viewed through water in a glass, they are mirrored. You learn something new every day.

Brusspup’s latest visual trick is a fun one you can easily do yourself with a couple of styrofoam rings and some hot glue. When attached at the right spot, they look like the rings that held General Zod captive in the original Superman.

YouTuber FarlyTeem compiled the magic tricks posted by Zach King aka FinalCutKing on Vine. Many of the tricks are simple edits, but at least a few of them are clever and will leave you scratching your head.

Last year Tommy Edison was asked if there were magic tricks for blind people. Jokes aside, Tommy didn’t think there were any. It turns out not only are there tricks for blind people, there’s even a magician for blind people.

YouTube’s resident illusionist brusspup is back with more static images that spring to life, thanks to our silly brains. Just make a spoon graphic already dude. Check the video’s description for links to the images.

David Blaine stuns Harrison Ford with a teleporting card trick. We refuse to believe that Ford was in on it. He looked like he was going to seriously have a heart attack. From Blaine’s ABC special Real or Magic.

Magician David Blaine blows the minds of Breaking Bad stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston with a seemingly erroneous card trick. Yeah magic! A preview of Blaine’s ABC special David Blaine: Real or Magic.

Remember the daring carnival trick involving ping pong paddles, a girl and knives? Viral video vigilante Captain Disillusion reveals that the video has two more crucial ingredients: visual effects and a piece of string.

Brusspup shares a simple but effective way to protect your monitor from prying eyes. The modified monitor will appear white unless seen through a pair of polarized glasses. More on the video’s description or here.

This new commercial for the fuel-efficient European Honda CR-V 1.6 i DTEC will quickly have you scratching your head through a series of mind-bending optical illusions, touting the tagline “An impossible, made possible.”

Borrowing heavily from one of Brusspup’s earlier illusions (and even the music), Never Hide Films created this desk filled with faux 3D objects and messes with our heads in this spot for Ray-Ban. Kudos to Never Hide for the unexpected finish.

Not everything that causes hallucinations is ingested. This video can take you on a trip (or give you a headache) for a couple of seconds. Play it on full screen and in HD. It didn’t work on us, but we really need to wipe our monitors now.

Illusionist and comedian Carl-Einar Häckner shares a magic trick for beginners that he learned from an absolutely legit magic teaching cassette tape. He has one problem though: he misheard the list of props he needed to bring.

An interactive exhibition in which fluids appear to run upstream, static objects come to life, people float, and figures appear out of light – all achieved by tricking our brains. Runs through 9/29/13 at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Stuart Edge loves using tricks to get closer to women. Here he takes things to another level with a simple but amazing card trick. Hit up YouTuber Mismag822 if you want to know how the trick works.

YouTube’s famous illusionist brusspup shares a mixture that suddenly changes its color. But it’s no trick. It’s called the iodine clock reaction, a chain reaction where the slow first step is followed by one or two speedy reaction(s).