A ball is not a ball and with this ball you are going to have a ball. 30 pieces of magnetic triangles will keep you busy for month. You will be staring at your creations, figuring out why your eyes think it’s an optical illusion. Or the other way around.

• Patented and insanely fun magnetic toy composed of 30 pyramidal pieces
• Assembles into hundreds of shapes – spur your creativity into overdrive!
• Designer: Roger von Oech
• Includes 96-page illustrated guidebook
• Size: 3" x 3" x 3" (assembled); 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 1" pyramidal unit

More info: Magnetic Whack Ball

- Over 100 Toys for only 1 Dollar!

On our recent Atlantic hike on the coast of Asturias we noticed an odd and rare rock illusion. Maybe we were so obsessed with the idea to spot a bear (probably not though on the Atlantic coast) but it is possible to run into a bear in the wild ( even not caged in too). So we walked by this odd shaped rock formation and then couple of hundred meters further we looked back and saw this:

A huge teddy bear sitting on a rock!!!

I want to go back now and film it, how a slice of rock can transform into a teddy bear. I think Asturias just gotten an other place of pilgrimage.

More about Asturias: Oviedo Blog 

8:00 am on a Monday and still to drunk to clearly read the time.

Swing Clock mounts on your wall, and sashays back and forth, marking the passage of time. Watch as your friends take hilarious double-takes once they realize the clock is apparently floating and swinging itself.

More info: Pendulum Clock

- La Buleria

A dude with too much time on his hands and a great vision!

Many more tricks and illusions:

- More Optical Illusion

Wants it – love stuff like this!

This kit has everything your geekling needs to do 24 experiments in the sciences of light, optics, and visual perception. Build a color wheel, a fiber optic peacock, diffraction glasses, pinhole glasses, a camera obscura… Experiment with lenses and light refraction. Check out the world through 3D glasses and learn about spatial vision and depth perception. Everything is included in the kit, including a 48 page, full color manual that walks you through every experiment step by step.

More info: Optical Science and Art Kit

- Burning Bookmark

Very odd. I know your eyes always considers the object’s surrounding for judging shades or hues. But this extreme? Must be a trick? What do you think?

- Optical Illusion Stuff

Ha! Gotcha! Isn’t the brain funny. It over lays wishful thinking over reality. I’m a sucker for optical illusion, have you seen any recently? If so feel free to post them in the comments.

[via twitter user: ekday]

- These Bargains are no illusions

What do you think? Faked? But if not, how is this possible?

Video Link: Block Illusion

- Earmuff Headphones

It’s not really a game but a neat game collection nicely wrapped up in a flash file.

Game Link: 50 Optical Illusions

- DVD Report – January 20th (Inauguration Edition!)

Wow! Easily coolest ruler out there. Can’t stop measuring! One ruler to rule them all!

Each ruler is six inches of fun (outta the gutter, you), and each one features a different Scanimation (an illusion style designed by the genius: Rufus Butler Seder). Just tilt the ruler back and forth to see the motion! You can choose from blinking eyes, piano playing hands, crawling ants, and running horses (a nod to the tale that motion pictures were created to really see if there was a moment when a horse had all four legs off the ground). These rulers are a great way to geek out your kids school supplies or spruce up your boring office accessories. Optical Illusions Motion Rules have more motion and more magic for your measure.

More info : Optical Illusion Motion Rulers

- Are you Drunk?