New York City - Amazing Technology, Optical Device Offers View Of London

New York City - Thanks to an artist's tunnel vision, a New Yorker can stand in Brooklyn, wave to someone in London - and see the Brit waving back.

The jolly good show is made possible by a huge optical device called a "telectroscope" created by a sculptor who has also invented a tale about its origin, claiming it was made possible by a long-lost secret tunnel.

The gizmo was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday - and an identical one was set up across the pond on London's South Bank by the Tower Bridge.

Step up to the person-size lens of the brass-and-wood device and you see a life-size view in real time of whoever is gazing through the lens on the other side.

The work by London artist Paul St. George looks like a giant telescope burrowing into the ground. Publicists for the project would say only that the scope works by using fiberoptic communication.