10 Cool Magic Tricks For This Years Holiday Party

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10 Cool Magic Tricks For This Years Holiday Party

5 Comments 06 December 2010

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The holidays are a festive time for entertainment family and friends. ‘Entertaining’ being the optimal word. For those of you looking to add a little magic to your holiday parties this year, we’ve provided a video showing some of the coolest magic tricks and the science behind them.

Special thanks to Prof Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. He is a psychologist, magician, and author who has been kind enough to walk us through these tried and true crowd-pleaser.

For more quirky science, visit Prof Wiseman’s daily blog at:
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/

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Bio: Kevin Minott is a 3D artist and tech enthusiast. He’s worked as an illustrator and animator creating teaching aids for K-12 grade schools. His work has been featured in interactive games, exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and in the accompanying DVD, Climate Change Our Global Experiment. Kevin currently teaches 3D animation in Chicago IL. Komverse, is a blog that reflects his love of technology, art and new media. Featuring the latest in high-end tech news and social memes.

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Thanks for these. My favourite scince based ‘magic’ effect is that of seemingly causing a pen to move on its own accord (by the power of your mind etc). there’s no blowing involved and no invisible threads or magnets. You take the pen and a small bottle with its cap on. You then explain that in order to be responsive to the psychic energy, you must ritually clean the objects used first. So you than rub the bottle and then the pen with a clean cloth nylon helps, hint hint . Then holding the pen by the cap you balance it over the top of the bottle neck. As you concentrate and place your hands near the pen it begins to spin on its own and you can, at will, make it turn in any direction. You then pick up the pen and let others try – but they can’t do it? Can you figure out how that is done?

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Yes. Rubbing the pen with a nylon cloth builds up static electricity. When you bring your fingers close to it the charge from your body repels it. Once you pick up the pen, all the static electricity is dissipated and no one else can get it to move. Cool trick.