Water Flows Uphill in British Garden
British inventor and vacuum-cleaner magnate James Dyson has created a really cool illusion as part of the annual Chelsea Flower Show. The beeb has the story: How does Dyson make water go uphill?
If you read the story, it’s actually not quite clear who should get credit for “inventing” the effect. Dyson gets most of the ink in the article, though “Dyson engineer” Derek Phillips seems to be the person who actually created it. I’m not sure where the actual design came from.
But I don’t care. I so want one of these.
May 22nd, 2003 at 2:17 pm
This disturbs me. A biology teacher of mine MANY years back showed my class this trick to demonstrate how heavily we rely on our vision. She didn’t get an article. Had the working model and everything, given it was much smaller and worked a differently, though it still got the same effect in the same manner. I wish I had her email so I could send her this — she’d be REALLY pissed