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The magic eye (also called a cat's eye, or tuning eye in North America) is a specific type of such a tube with a circular display similar to the EM34 illustrated. Its first broad application was as a tuning indicator in radio receivers , to give an indication of the relative strength of the received radio signal, to show when a radio station ...
The retroreflective glass spheres shown set into a cat's eye in the United Kingdom. Shaw was inventive, even at an early age, but his most famous invention was the cat's eye for lighting the way along roads in the dark. There are several stories about how he came up with the idea.
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Unlike we humans, cats don't have cones that are sensitive to red wavelengths — that means that they lack the light-sensitive pigments at the back of their eye that enable them to see red.
Cat eyes are self-defense weapons similar to brass knuckles. TSA checkpoints in New York are now detecting a spike in these. Here's why.
In a typical Ganzfeld experiment, a "receiver" is placed in a room relaxing in a comfortable chair with halved ping-pong balls over the eyes, having a red light shone on them. The receiver also wears a set of headphones through which white or pink noise (static) is played. The receiver is in this state of mild sensory deprivation for half an hour.
As cat behavioral consultant Ingrid Johnson told Live Science, cats like having control of their access to spaces, food, and territory. They also don't understand that a closed door is temporary ...
The term cat's eye derives from the resemblance of the cat's eye retroreflector to the optical system that produces the well-known phenomenon of "glowing eyes" or eyeshine in cats and other vertebrates (which are only reflecting light, rather than actually glowing).