There's an episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld" in which a series of characters become transfixed by a 3-D poster. As they stare at a seemingly abstract pattern, a figurative image slowly becomes visible: an optical illusion as artistic parlor trick.
I am not a runner. I have very short legs and bad knees. I used to make fun of runners, especially the ones who feel compelled to run the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, which this year takes place on Sunday. That was back when I was fat and out of shape. Now I'm fat and in shape.
Hide and seek: Derrell Roberts might have been a hanging chad a few years ago. Today he's an optical illusion. Derrell is running for the North Sacramento Elementary School District board in the Nov. 7 election. He's on the ballot. But good luck finding him. Derrell is the victim of bad luck and the limitations of new optical scanning voting technology. His name didn't fit among the other
C'est fini -- almost. People will have one more opportunity to see the optical illusion art Frenchman Georges Rousse left behind during the Durham Culture Crawl on Friday.
Four driver-warning systems that may help those who fall asleep at the wheel were recently tested and evaluated by human factors/ergonomics researchers at Ford Motor Company.
Shown as a concept car at the Detroit Auto Show in 2002, the Pontiac Solstice was the star of the show. It generated a huge amount of interest right at the time when General Motors was starting to fade under the attack of offshore automakers.