The illegal use of a silicone face mask by a man has sparked public discussion in China. There is a growing call for stricter regulation and oversight of the sale and use of silicone face masks on ...

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, ...

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 ...

A burgeoning grey market in silicone masks that “can make you look like anyone, including celebrities” has emerged in China. On the country’s largest e-commerce platform Taobao, the lifelike disguises ...

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!

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 ...

In today’s Halloween news, there’s a very realistic vagina mask being sold on Etsy. But before you think “yay feminism and body positivity!” brace yourself—this mask is scary. In fact, if anything, it ...

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 ...

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 ...