Scientists have created creepy hyper-realistic masks, which they claim are 'more believable than human faces.’ The silicone masks were created by researchers from the University of York and ...

LOS ANGELES — They’re not just for Halloween anymore. Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the costume party — increasingly are being used out of season, and not ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

The result is a line of “hyper-realistic,” three-dimensional masks that appear to be one breath away from opening their mouths and speaking. “Mask shops in Venice probably do not buy or sell ...

It's easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into character and scare young ...

A recent study even proved that people have a hard time telling the difference between a real person and someone wearing a realistic face mask. In addition to the realistic face masks ...

Super-realistic face masks made by a tiny company in rural Japan are in demand from the domestic tech and entertainment industries and from countries as far away as Saudi Arabia. The 300,000-yen ...

Some sillicone masks are now so realistic that they can easily be mistaken for real faces, research suggests. In this study, led by Jet G. Sanders while at University of York (now Assistant Professor ...

Surprisingly, participants made the wrong call in one in five cases. Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials such as silicone and are designed to imitate real human faces -- down to ...