Illusion

Eye How many black dots do you see? Which way does the window face Young Lady - Old Woman TOUGH Color Test FREAKY Spiral Stare at the center of the spiral for about 60 seconds. Now look at your hand... it will appear to look like bugs are crawling UNDER your skin! CRAZY ILLUSION! Jesus Illusion Concentrate on the the four vertical dots in the middle of the image below for 30 seconds. Now, close your eyes and tilt your head back. Keep them closed: You'll see a circle of light. Keep staring at the circle... What do you see? Two Shades of Green... Do you see the two shades of green above? Would you believe that there is actually only one shade of green? Win Goblet Or Two Faces Triangle Illusion ABC Or... Do you see the letters ABC. Now look in the opposite direction... You'll also notice the numbers 12, 13, 14. Cool Eh? Black Shapes Or A Word

Yellow Circles

Find The Missing People!

There are a total of nine.

Perplexing Illusion!

Try focusing on the center circle while moving your head in and out

Young Lady or an Old Woman

Can You See The Face, Box and the Dragon

Amazing Optical Illusion

Stare at the black dot... After a while the grey haze will begin to shrink! Lightbulb Illusion Stare at the lightbulb for about 30 seconds. Then stare at the white area around the screen. The lightbulb will begin to GLOW!! Duck Or A Bunny

How Many Legs Do You See

A Musician or a Girl

Straight or Bent Lines

Can you find all 5 wolves

A Skull or a Couple

A Face Or... Can you find the word Liar? Where is the dog Enjoy...... All the best

New Products for 2010

2010 is a promising year for bring you the most functional, promising, and novel of the batch. If youre tired of waiting for flying cars and voice-controlled sunglasses, this just might be your year.

25. nPower Personal Energy Generator

The PEG harvests one of the biggest energy hogs on earthyou. Place the little device into your bag or briefcase, plug in your cell phone, GPS, or iPod, and let your kinetic energy power up your gadgets while you walk. You can get an 80% charge in one hour through your own energy alone. Green and brilliant.

24. Flying Car: Terrafugia

Even though were well into the 2000s, nobody has come up with a Jetsons-style flying car. Until now. The Terrafugia Transition is more of a driving plane than a flying car, but its a promising first step. The worlds first street legal plane hits runways and highways in 2010.

23. Sony 3D-360 Hologram

No glasses needed! Just turn on your tabletop unit and enjoy a 360-degree view of images and possibly video through this stereoscopic display. Sony isnt yet sure what to use it for, but ads, video games, and medical visualizations are just a few ideas.

22. Xeros Waterless Washing Machine

The waterless washing machine isnt as sexy as some of the other gadgets arriving in 2010, but its conservation qualities should be applauded. It uses nylon beads and a spin cycle to clean your clothes, saving water while potentially reducing the need for dryers.

21. Recompute: The Cardboard Computer

Cardboard is the new black. Legions of product made primarily of corrugated cardboard are hitting the market. This little beauty will benefit anyone who has ever broken that little sticker while changing out a sound card or adding memory to a CPU.

20. Powermat Wireless Battery Charger

If youre tired of carrying around one charger per electronic toy, youre in luck. The Powermat lets you charge your iPhone, Blackberry, Nintendo DS, and most other gadgets on the same mat. One mat, one plug.

19. Samsung Water-Powered Battery

Sure, one mat, one plug is cool. But what if you didnt have to plug in at all? Samsung is speeding past the AC plug, around the solar charger, and directly into the water faucet. Its new micro-fuel cell and genereator rpowers your cell phone through water alone. Jurys still out on whether it will work long-term.

18. Camaro: Tranformers Edition

Love muscle cars? Have you seen Transformers more times than all your nieces and nephews?
Then this head-turner is for you. Note that the car does not actually transform, nor does it come with any multi-weaponry.

17. Apple Tablet

It has always been tough to determine what Apple will put out in the next year. But this time, the anecdotal evidence seems to add up. Its safe to say you will see a touchscreen-based tablet Apple product that will both fight with Kindle for books and netbook manufacturers for small computing.

16. The Honda Bicycle Simulator

As part of a universal quest to replicate outdoor activities without actually going outside, Honda has unveiled a new kind of bicycle . It doesnt actually go anywhere, but it does simulate real-life situations riders may face on the way to work or the store. Think of it as defensive driving for bicyclists.

15. Panasonic 50-inch 3D 1080p Plasma TV

Image: Slashgear

Have you noticed the slew of new movies coming out in 3D? This new kind of TV could be the reason. Once you spring for specialized glasses, a new Blu-ray player, and a bunch of 3-D DVDs, youll be ready for this TV .

14. Gibbs Quadski

Heres the scene. 007 is in the middle of an ATV chase, 4-wheelers spewing mud all around him as he speeds toward the sea. He looks like hes done for. Then, suddenly, he plows into the ocean and hits a button. The wheels on his ATV fold as he speeds away, spraying water on the bad guys. This ATV/Jetski can be yours next year, in the form of the Quadski. Bad guys not included.

13. Space Elevator

Image: Spaceward Foundation

You cant actually buy one of these , but you might be able to help build one and then own it. The Space Elevator, formerly the stuff of science fiction, will become reality in 2010, when building teams will compete for cashand bragging rightsto actually get it done.

12. 2010 Brabus Mercedes-Benz Viano Lounge

Tilt back in your leather lounge chair. Turn on the Sat TV. Load your Nespresso machine with the finest coffee beans in the world, then take a photo of it all with your iPhone. Load the photo and to your Twitpic from the on-board Sony Vaio laptop. Did I mention that you can do all this while cruising down the interstate at 80 mph? Classy.

11. Plasma Scalpel

Touted as a lightsaber for military doctors, the new plasma scalpel works by using ionized gas in a controlled light beam. This simultaneously slices and cauterizes a wound on the battlefield. Coming in 2010 to a war zone near you. Heres to hoping you never see one!

10. Touch Wood

Theres only one thing cooler than corrugated cardboard in technology. Its name is wood. The Japanese are leading a trend called Mori Girl (Forest girl), which aims to limit the use of plastic by using sustainable wood instead .

9. V12 Dual-Touchscreen Notebook

Canova 2.0 is working with an undisclosed US manufacturer to change the screen game. The new dual-LCD screen laptop could take the form of big iPhone-style touchscreens or, if theyre working with a different company (they wont say who it is), simply one of the neatest laptops ever to hit markets.

8. OnLive

Image: Onlive

OnLive is simple: Play the hottest video games from your TV, PC or Mac over a broadband connection. No console, no discs. Some very smart people are predicting that OnLive might be the console killer. That may be stretching it, but the technology seen at E3 is hard to argue with.

7. MyKey by Ford

Teens have a propensity for unsafe driving. Thats hardly news, but what parents can now do to encourage safe driving is. The MyKey can be set to control the vehicle by limiting speed, chiming when the gas tank is 75 miles from empty, and limiting the cars audio by as much as 44%. Kids will hate it. Thats probably why its such a good thing.

6. Tri-Specs

Image: TriSpecs

You have your phone, your iPod, your headphones, and your wi-fi headset, in case you get a call. You have your sunglasses. Youre ready to goor are you? What if you could pull on your shades and have all of the above, in one cool package? Enter Tri-Specs . They come built-in Bluetooth wireless headphones for an MP3 Player or cell phone, retractable earbuds, built-in volume control, and even voice control. For $200, you can be the coolest kid on the block.

5. Microsoft Xbox360 Project Natal

Now that Microsoft did the wireless controller right, theyre throwing it out the virtual Window in favor of Project Natal . Rumored to be coming at one of next years conferences, PN will have no controller or wires connecting you with the screen. Well see if it works.

4. Google Wave

Google has a way of inventing things that people do not know they need until they understand the product. Its latest such creation is Google Wave . Its not email. Its not chat. Rather, a Wave is a document that acts like a conversation, live and changeable on the fly. Rich media drives the experience. But you wont really know how much you need it until Google actually gives it to you.

3. The KS810 Keyboard Scan

Image: Geek.com

This keyboard with a fully-integrated scanner takes product hybridization one step further. The KS810 keyboard contains a full-color, 600dpi scanner that lets you drop scans into most online applications. If keyboard scanning isnt your thing, product creator Lifeworks is also offering a keyboard with a built-in iPod dock.

2. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case

Image: Inhabitat

If youre sick and tired of those cool-looking black leather laptop cases, rejoice! Giles Miller has designed a customizable cardboard box for that perfectly fits your little Netbook. You can even put your own logo on it. Take that, Targus.

1. Gocycle Electric Bicycle

Image: Mecho

Coast in electric mode for up to 20 miles in this little sucker , then fold it up and take it with you. Of course, you might want to pedal every now and then, just to make it look like youre making an effort.

Some hidden information contained in famous logos

Amazon.com

This logo doesn’t seem to hide much at first sight, but it gives you a little insight in the philosophy behind the brand. First of all, the yellow swoosh looks like a smile: Amazon.com want to have the best customer satisfaction. The swoosh also connects the letters a and z, meaning that this store has everything from a to z.

Fedex

This is probably one of the best known logos with a hidden meaning. If you look closely, you’ll see an arrow that’s formed by the letters E and x. This arrow symbolizes speed and precision, two major selling points of this company.

Continental

Continental is a manufacturer of tyres. You could actually see this in their logo, because the first two letters create a 3-dimensional tyre.

Toblerone

Toblerone is a chocolate-company from Bern , Switzerland . Bern is sometimes called ‘The City Of Bears’. They have incorporated this idea in the Toblerone logo, because if you look closely, you’ll see the silhouette of a bear.

Baskin Robins

The old logo of Baskin Robbins had the number 31 with an arc above it. The new logo took this idea to the next level. The pink parts of the BR still form the number 31, a reference to the 31 flavours.

Sony Vaio

Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. But did you know that the name Vaio logo also had a hidden meaning? Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.

Carrefour

Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and it’s also French for “crossroads”. The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first letter of the name, because if you look closely you’ll see the letter C in the negative space between the two arrows.

Unilever

Unilever is one of the biggest producers of food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. They produce a huge amount of different products and they wanted to reflect this in their logo. Each part of the logo has a meaning. For example: the heart represents love, care and health - feeling good, a bird is a symbol of freedom. Relief from daily chores – getting more out of life.

Formula 1

At first, this logo might not make much sense. But if you look closely, you’ll see the number 1 in the negative space between the F and the red stripes. I also love how this logo communicates a feeling of speed.

Sun Microsystems

The Sun logo is one of the most famous ambigrams in the world. You can read the brand name in every direction; both horizontally and vertically. This logo was designed by professor Vaughan Pratt of the Stanford University .

NBC

The NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is one of the biggest American television networks. I think most of you have already seen the peacock in this logo. The peacock has 6 different tail feathers, referring to the six divisions at the time that this logo was created. The peacock’s head is flipped to the right to suggest it was looking forward, not back.

Logo evolutions.

Some modifications are minor; others can result in an almost entirely different logo. In this article, we will look at some logos from well known companies and see how they have changed throughout the history of the company.

Google

Google’s first logo was designed by Sergey Brin using the free graphic design application, GIMP. Later that same year Google added an exclamation similar to that in use by Yahoo! Finally in 1999, Ruth Kedar, a Consultant Art Professor from Stanford created the logo that is still in use to this day.

Canon

Canon was originally known as Kwanon and the original logo used a unique typeface never before seen in Europe or North America. The logo then underwent a huge change before the rename in 1953. The current logo styling is clearly rooted in this logo and although it has been through more changes since then, it looks very similar.

Pepsi

Pepsi have made an unbelievable number of changes to their logo over the years making it the perfect example to end on. The 1905 logo is a little easier on the eyes than the 1898 version. The 1940 logo sports a cleaner look. The 1950s logo introduces the well-known red, white, blue colour scheme which hasn’t changed since.

Pepsi have made many changes to their logo to keep it modern and not all of them have been received well but it’s almost guaranteed they will continue to update the logo to meet future design standards.

Volkswagen

Volkswagen’s history dates back to 1930’s Nazi Germany. Volkswagen translates to ‘people’s car’ which defines what the brand is all about; a car manufacturer that designs cars with affordability in mind whilst not compromising on quality. In the 1939 logo, the design somewhat resembles a swastika. Finally, the current logo follows the pattern of most modern logos by adding a gradient effect etc.

BMW

BMW is a leading German car manufacturer which was originally founded as an aircraft company. BMW supplied planes to the German army throughout world war one before having to their change strategy at the end of the war. They moved on to making railway brakes, motorcycles and cars. The core design of the logo itself has remained more or less the same with the current logo using a gradient to give a modern look; the same technique used by the current apple logo.

The next revision uses bolder letters and circle outlines. BMW then loses the gold in exchange for white. The weight of the text is reduced and the size of the circles changed. The next logo uses the same font as the logo in use today. As explained earlier, this is the ’54 logo modernized.

Nike

Nike is a leader in sportswear fashion and has a logo that could be recognized a mile away. Its simplistic design has allowed it to remain modern over the years with very few changes. Caroline Davidson designed Nike’s logo in 1971 for $35. The first change came in 1978 when the text was lifted so that it didn’t overlap the swoosh. The 1978 is probably the best known of the logos. The current logo removes the text leaving only the famous Nike swoosh.

Microsoft

Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft (Micro-Soft) in 1975… within the year they lost the hyphen. The 1982 – 1987 logo featured the oddly shaped ‘O’ which was known by employees as the ‘blibbet’.

Microsoft changed its logo in 1987 to a version that didn’t include the ‘blibbet’. This sparked a former employee to campaign to ‘save the blibbet’. Scott Baker created the newer logo with a slash in the O. This became known as the ‘pac-man’ logo. Microsoft is another example of logo’s changing with the times. It’s clear that the 80’s style logo wouldn’t fit in today.

Apple

Apple is an iconic brand with an unmistakable logo but that wasn’t the case in 1976. Apple’s first logo was a picture of Isaac Newton sat under an apple tree. The logo was designed by Ronald Wayne who held a 10% stake in the company which he sold a mere two weeks later. In the same year, Steve Jobs came to the conclusion that the logo was to blame for slow sales and commissioned an agency to design a new logo. The agency designed the striped apple logo which was in use until 1999. Finally the current logo drops the stripes for a monochromatic modern look.

Ford

Ford was founded in 1902 under the name Ford & Malcomson, Ltd. In 1903 it was renamed to Ford Motor Company which is shown in the first logo. The 1909 logo has a font resembling the one that is currently in use; both logos shown are simplistic in comparison to the 1912 revamped version. In the same year the logo was replaced with a design incredibly similar to the latest version.

15 years later, Ford changed its logo along with the launch of the ‘Model A’ car. Ford’s current logo is known as the ‘Centennial Blue Oval’. Ford is the perfect example of the evolution of a logo as there are many revisions made over a period of many years demonstrating how logo’s need to change with the times.

The examples above show how company logos transform and adapt with the times and will continue to do so in order to ensure the companies continue to appear modern.

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