Gundam Calling:

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You’re probably thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” It’s made out of leather, has zippered pockets and even the eyes light up. Hell, he can even be reassembled into a standing height of 3′. $60 buys you the geekiest iPad case yet.

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A mathematician named Kokichi Sugihara has won the Best Illusion of the Year, an award handed out by the Vision Sciences Society. The video below is a demonstration of the winning illusion, a gravity defying mind-bender that doesn’t reveal its secrets until the base is turned. There is no trickery here, no CGI, and no magnets.

Sugihara’s illusion was inspired by a computer program he wrote that turns two-dimensional line drawings into renderings of three-dimensional solids. The program worked beautifully for everyday solids, but Sugihara wondered what would happen if he fed his program some drawings of ‘impossible figures’, of the kind that might appear in an artwork by M. C. Escher.

“Most of the time, the software rejected the input,” Sugihara says. “But once in a while it found a solution.” The result was a number of figures that appeared to move in unnatural ways, including the gravity-defying balls that took the prize.

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Now that the jailbreak application is out in the wild and people are unlocking their iPad from Apple’s control, people are finding all kinds of interesting hacks that make greater use of the iPad. For instance, here is a video that illustrates how to hook up an external hard drive to an iPad. Could this mean we’ll see official, additional storage options supported by Apple in the future? I wouldn’t hold my breath. Hence, this is why jailbreaking exists.

I know people are curious as to how to jailbreak their iPad, so I will be writing up a brief, concise, no-nonsense guide in the next day or two.