Persistence of vision (POV) displays can produce an almost magical effect, displaying images in the air by moving a line of LEDs back and forth very quickly or around in circles. The effect works because your eyes are unable to adjust fast enough to separate out the individual flashes of light, and so you observe a merged image (the message or picture being displayed):
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