Mind's Eye

Astonish yourself with optical illusions as you explore the science of human perception in this fascinating kit. Find your blind spot and watch things disappear. Use special glasses to detect the errors in a counterfeit bill. Spot the blood vessels in your eye. Make a curved line look straight. Turn cardboard transparent. See the world shrink. Make white by mixing red, green, and blue, and see colors in black and white.

Learn first-hand how your eye and brain work together to perceive color, light, depth, perspective, size, shape, and motion. Conduct over 94 experiments, guided by the 96-page, full color experiment book. The book is organized around an engaging conversation between two children who perform experiments and make discoveries.
Ages 10 and up.

Features

• investigate eyes and cameras
• learn the biology of the eye
• find out how the eye communicates with the brain
• experiment with how we perceive size, distance, depth, perspective, color, brightness, shapes and motion
• build a camera obscura, a solar-powered disk spinner, prismatic 3-D glasses, a forced perspective room model, a color mixer, various illusion disks, pinhole glasses, and a three-bar illusion box

Multiple Intelligences

Our toy experts have indicated that the Mind's Eye strengthens the following Intelligences:

Math-Logical

Children with strong Math-Logical intelligence have the ability to reason deductively and can recognize and manipulate abstract patterns or relationships. Students who have strong problem-solving and reasoning skills will excel in this intelligence.

Intrapersonal

Children who are strong in the Intrapersonal intelligence have the ability to understand one's own emotions, goals and motivations. These students have good instincts about their strengths and abilities.