Hyper-realistic silicone masks are now being made so realistic that one in five people cannot distinguish them from a real person's face in split-second situations, a study has found. The creepy face ...

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 ...

A recent spate of thefts in Jiangsu province and Shanghai involving hyper-realistic silicone face masks has ignited a debate about the legality of these products. Authorities in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, ...

Some masks are so realistic that people frequently cannot tell them apart from human faces, a study has found. Participants were fooled by the masks in a fifth of cases, researchers from the ...

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 ...

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 always for laughs ...

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 ...

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 University ...