Invisible Drum kit

Performed at Marlborough College as part of 'Illuminations' by Seb Fagg, Harry Scott, Hamish Brown, and Will Simmons. The C1 boys give an invisible performance. All credit to Rowan Atkinson for an amazing idea. LINK: Youtube

How to Make Glass Invisible

This video reveals some magical visual science via physics. The refractive index of Pyrex glass (the most common brand of borosilicate glass) is almost exactly the same as the refractive index of vegetable oil. When Pyrex glass is placed in vegetable oil it disappears!

- Via: Youtube, Via: Neatorama

Chinese Artist Disappears

Meet Chinese performance artist Liu Bolin...also known as 'the invisible man'. LINK: Youtube

I just blogged some of his art a couple days ago. Hope you enjoy this video.

Almost invisible: The incredible Glasswing Butterfly

A butterfly with transparent wings? Surely not. Yet there is a species that exhibits this trait. Take a close look at the incredible Glasswing, an enchanting species that confounds science.

Transparency in nature is not something that has been very well understood. In order to achieve transparency the tissue must not absorb light. Neither can it scatter light, as this is the major obstacle to being see-through. Humans, for example, will never be able to be transparent because they have chemical and biological compounds that all have different refraction. The wings of the glasswing must, therefore, have the same refractive index all the way through them as otherwise this transparency could not possibly occur. It is thought (a postulation at the moment rather than sure fire fact) that the surface of the wing has a covering of protrusions that are so small they can be called submicroscopic. They have a single refractive index and so do not scatter light, so making the wings transparent. LINK

Invisible Skate Boarding

This is a pretty cool video. It basically looks like the people are floating on thin air using invisible skate boards. LINK: Youtube

How to Create Invisible Shelves

Stack your books on the wall supported by… nothing! They appear to be floating. Complete instructions for making your own can be found at WikiHow. Link, Via: The Presurfer, Via: Neatorama