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 wily ...

Jarred Alcala makes a living indulging his childhood passion for the special-effects side of spooky. “I get to wake up every day and come here and make Halloween masks, make monsters and create and ...

It's perhaps the most defining trope of the many Mission: Impossible movies: Someone mistakes a character for a certain person, until that individual's hyper-realistic mask gets ripped off. Surprise!

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 children ...

Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials such as silicone and are designed to imitate real human faces - down to every last freckle, wrinkle and strand of real human hair. In a study by ...

MILWAUKEE — Sometimes, when Jeff Cox leaves for the day (or night), he swears he can see his monsters move. He lives —and makes a living — in a world of zombies, decaying mummies, un-dead clowns and ...

Landon Meier is the artist behind realistic masks of tech figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The digital artist Beeple showed the masks at an event this month during the NFT conference in New ...

The masks are all made by artist Landon Meier from the company Hyperflesh. He creates them by making digital 3D renders using reference photos from various different angles. Sculptures are then 3D ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Faces litter Landon Meier’s south Denver house. Here is Mike Tyson, gap-toothed smile, tribal face tattoo and all. Over there, Donald Trump, his ...

Researchers asked participants to look at pairs of photographs and decide which showed a normal face and which showed a person wearing a mask. Surprisingly, participants made the wrong call in one in ...