Mind's Eye
by Thames & Kosmos
Mind's Eye presents dozen of fascinating optical illusions to teach users about the science of human perception and how the brain and eye work together to create vision.
Astonish yourself with optical illusions as you explore the science of human perception in this fascinating kit. Find your blind spot and watch things disappear. Use special glasses to detect the errors in a counterfeit bill. Spot the blood vessels in your eye. Make a curved line look straight. Turn cardboard transparent. See the world shrink. Make white by mixing red, green and blue, and see colors in black and white! Learn first-hand how your eye and brain work together to perceive color, light, depth, perspective, size, shape and motion. Conduct over 94 experiments, guided by the full-color 96-page experiment book. The book is organized around an engaging conversation between two children who perform experiments and make discoveries.
- investigate eyes and cameras
- learn the biology of the eye
- find out how the eye communicates with the brain
- experiment with how we perceive size, distance, depth, perspective, color, brightness, shapes and motion
Build all this and more: camera obscura, solar-powered disk spinner, prismatic 3-D glasses, forced perspective room model,color mixer, various illusion disks, pinhole glasses & three-bar illusion box.
Contents include: Experiment Manual, Rotating Disk, Motor, Solar Cell, Prisms, Lenses, Colored Films, Foils, String of Beads, 12 Die-Cut Cards, 2 Transparency Sheets, Wires, Straws, Tubing, Tracing Paper, Shoelace, And More!
Ages 10 and up
All Thames & Kosmos products have been safety tested to the rigorous standards of both the USA and Europe
