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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At first glance, the photo above can look like a still from a science fiction movie, but rest assured: The guy and his face mask are very real. While the first thing that came to my mind was, “oh wow ...

One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? If you’re planning on a low-budget, last-minute, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...