It’s easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into character and scare young children ...

People have grown very accustomed to seeing masks over the last year, however chances are you haven't seen any quite like those made by Shuhei Okawara. Shuhei Okawara, owner of mask shop Kamenya Omote ...

There’s the age-old concept of stepping into someone else’s shoes to better understand them. Now, thanks to one man from Japan, you can slip their face onto yours. Reuters reports that Shuhei Okawara, ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The wily ...

It’s easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into character and scare young children ...

TOKYO — A year into the coronavirus epidemic, a Japanese retailer has come up with a new take on the theme of facial camouflage — a hyper-realistic mask that models a stranger’s features in three ...

Images of synthetic hyper-realistic masks could be mistaken for those of real faces, according to a study published in the open access journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. The ...

It's perhaps the most defining trope of the many Mission: Impossible movies: Someone mistakes a character for a certain person, until that individual's hyper-realistic mask gets ripped off. Surprise!

If it’s been a while, or if you’ve yet to experience the hallucinatory insanity of Mandy for yourself, check out the trailer and synopsis below. In the Pacific Northwest in 1983, outsiders Red Miller ...

Researchers asked participants to look at pairs of photographs and decide which showed a normal face and which showed a person wearing a mask. Surprisingly, participants made the wrong call in one in ...

Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials such as silicone and are designed to imitate real human faces - down to every last freckle, wrinkle and strand of real human hair. In a study by ...