I recorded this at the Franklin Institute in Philedelphia on our recent trip down to Savannah.
The movement of the head is the illusion. In reality the head is actually concave, and it’s a skewed perception of depth that creates the illusion (in person, you need to close one eye in order to view the effect).
I remember a while back when this story first came out. It seems to be making the rounds again. Too freaking funny.
One contractor marvelled that the coin didnt seem to have a power source, but was filled with some sort of “nano-technology.”
Another wondered how those things got into his pockets after he had put his loose change in a secure plastic bag.
“And you wonder why our war effort isnt going too well,” said John Pike, a security and military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org.
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