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How Jez Starr does the things he does in the Techniques section

What it is that inspires Jez Starr to perform such effects in the Concepts section

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The Curse of The Thirteenth Box is Coming!!

13th Box

Starting June 25th for 10 weeks, The Thirteenth Box is a Cave Tour and Ghost Hunt Like No Other!!
Over 16's Only and Not for the Faint of heart!

Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface

Skinput – a method that allows the body to be appropriated for finger input using a novel, non-invasive, wearable bio-acoustic sensor.

The latest creations from James Kuhn who is attempting to paint his face every day for a second year

James Kuhn face painting

Ex-street fighter, 60, turned into a fanatical artist by a brain haemorrhage that physically altered his mind

These are the latest creations of extraordinary artist Tommy McHugh - a former builder and youth offender who can't stop painting since he emerged from a coma.Mr McHugh, 60, nearly died after two blood vessels burst in the back of his head.But after a week in a coma, he awoke with an uncontrollable urge to create and began writing poetry, painting the interior of his home, sculpting and carving.

Russian Teenager Designs Noiseless Electric Rifle

Russian Teenager and his Gun

Russia’s Defense Ministry has shown interest in the new electomechanical rifle the performance of which exceeds that of sniper weapons. The rifle was invented by a schoolboy in the city of Ufa.

Maxim Kotelnikov, an eighth-grader, designed his weapon after he had seen a TV program about the use of similar rifles in the USA and Korea. It took the boy a year to design the new weapon. He used his friend’s broken game rifle as the basis.

By Hook or By Crook, The Dreaded Mentalist latest show!

By Hook or By Crook

A psychological show of Information Gathering and Human Behaviour.

Based on the themes of the cult 1960's TV series 'The Prisoner.'

April 30th and May 1st. Tickets £8.50

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Researchers demonstrate mosquito laser in action

You can watch what happens to a mosquito at the instant it's zapped by a laser, all in slow-motion. Nathan Myhrvold’s company, Intellectual Ventures, has been developing the mosquito laser since 2008. Myhrvold recently demonstrated the device at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif.

Mental Asylum Optical Illusions

Japanese designers Nendo have completed the interior of a mental health clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo, where none of the doors open and patients and staff instead move around the building by opening sections of the walls.
Called MD.net Clinic Akasaka, the project includes sliding bookcases behind which the consultation rooms can be found and a single opening door at the end of the corridor that reveals a window to the outside.