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BIlly James Special user 991 Posts |
Hey folks,
I've got to put in a proposal to a cell phone company and so I've been brainstorming cell phone related tricks that would be good at a trade show. I thought I might also throw the idea out to your collective, creative minds. I'd really appreciate any ideas you have. Cheers |
macmagic Veteran user MA 400 Posts |
Well I saw a trick or really a gag, it looks like a big horseshoe shaped magnet and during the show if someones cell phone rings you whip out the magnet and it looks like it snagged there cell phone, you could do that then go into a routine with the phone........maybe something like when you borrow somones watch then accidently smash it and then use magic to restore it!
"Its a magic thing...........you wouldn't understand"
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
I thought of the same thing Macmagic.
Billy, I think it's called, "Cell Phone Magnet". I haven''t seen it, just read about it somewhere here at the Café. Regan
Mister Mystery
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bobn3 Special user Wichita, KS 718 Posts |
Hi all,
Stevens Magic has this. It looks really interesting (took one out of the package to take a look at it). Have a good one, Bob http://www.stevensmagic.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=7476 |
bcookmagic Elite user seattle wa 472 Posts |
HI there, I have been using Eric Buss's phoney cell phone magnet since I got mine at last years IBM and the thing gets a great response. Funny prop and easy to use. Brian
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MAGICofSeth Regular user 106 Posts |
What about having someone call a friend that is not at the tradeshow using their cellphone and name a card. Then use an invisible deck to reveal the named card upside down, or some other effect that uses the cell phone as a device to communicate thoughts....
The patter could tie it to the product. |
icentertainment Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Also the trade show shells from Hocus Pocus oor school for (of?) scoundrals --he produces a mobile phone at the end
you know the giant 3 shell game but they are not cheap- there is also a demo on their 3 shell game dvd. I have actually used the call someone with the invisible deck routine---very nice responce but you will want to get them off the phone--never ask a women to do the calling cos they start talking, asking how have you been---it slows up performance. if your a nail writer kinda guy you could get the phone person to name a product or monel number or something to do with the phone and make a quick prediction on a business card I just bought the Jmaes Bliss messing with your minds BOOK and he has a phone trick where you have 3 phones and you call one of the phones and it maghically gets diverted to another phone-kind confusing to type up but when you read it it sounds great- you will need to do some pre show set up which limites it's effectiveness. Inferno production of the phone--The hottest new phone on the market- the phone is easy to palm. if it's a nokia - (they all look the same from a distance except for color) then you could buy the shells they go in you could rig up a silk for a phone vanish or use it in a switch to do a broken (smashed) phone in a bag and then reproduce it elsewhere The magnet thing---Billy I think Sean may have one as he used it on Super Day. not sure on it's effectiveness at a trade show tho. predicting the model number with the use of a kozar pad - your prediction is a picture of the phone with the model number underneath--- have a blank facer deck and place the features and benefits of the cards on the faces. Do a pick a card routine- Pick a benefit---do a card to wallet effect ala Eddie tullock and have a watch and some money in the wallet---time represents time spend developing the technology, the money represents the money spent perfecting it- then say we spend time and money to give you what you want- pull out the card from your O'connel wallet. or you could use a regular deck and have them write a benefit down. You could do the old Fred Deck routine but say I name your card the "xyz phone" and go through that routine (using the 2 deck method) or use mini cards if your working out of your pockets. Light Heavy chest---- when you put the phone in the box they can't pick it up---when it isn't in the box they can pick it up---the reason--- this new phone is jam packed with features including.... Posted: Jan 19, 2006 9:11pm Excuse my bad spelling- I was typing quickly |
DerekMerdinyan Inner circle 1030 Posts |
I do a couple of tricks with a cellphone.
One of which has 1-4 cards selected and then lost. A cellphone appears in my left hand (ala tenkai from the right). The 4 places I have the revolations are: 1) A folded piece of paper with the name written on it in the battery compartment 2) Since my phone is a flip phone, I can hold a mini card inside that. 3) I turn the phone on and the welcome message says a selected card 4) The background/wallpaper is the 4th selected card. Obviously the 4 cards are forced, but this is a nice routine which I am (usually) always ready to perform. Another one I like to do is like a coin and pen routine except I use a cellphone instead of a pen. You can do a lot of the same moves with a pen (obviously not the behind the ear vanish lol). One thing I like to do is make the coin vanish ala striking vanish, open the phone, and show the coin there. (take a picture with the camera and set as background). If you put a few markings on the coin before you take its picture, it could pass momentarily as the signed coin. Then I turn the phone screen down onto my hand, over the coin and make it jump out of the screen. It is also possible to use the RAZR phones and others similar to it that have screens on the outside near the camera to use it as an electronic glim! These are just some of the tricks I use with my phone, they always draw lots of attention too b/c I am incorporating an everyday technological object. Derek Merdinyan P.S. I saw Duane Laflin (I think) use the Cellphone Magnet at SAMCON last summer, it looked great and was halarious! |
BIlly James Special user 991 Posts |
Some great ideas there guys, thanks very much for the input!
David, I can't believe that you remembered that I use an O'connel wallet! Cheers :) |
icentertainment Inner circle 1429 Posts |
It's a great wallet
I have the same one |
MDS Special user USA 528 Posts |
E-Mail Michael Eaton Michael@eatonmagic.com. He has an awesome cell phone trick with a camera phone that he may let you use.
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brew New user 14 Posts |
There's an effect with a stacked deck, spec chooses a card, you reveal card, but get it wrong, he texts wrong card into phone and recieves message back with right card.
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thedecipher New user South Africa 3 Posts |
Paul Gertner has a trade-show type of cell phone prediction in one of his lecture notes. Tamariz has some interesting invisible deck related ideas well using a cell phone.
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evolve629 Inner circle A stack of 3838 Posts |
Martin Sanderson actually has ideas using a cell phone and a laptop with wi-fi to predict a spec's selected card using b-card or without it in a trade show setting. This is in his Corporate Close Up DVD.
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Brian Lehr Inner circle Edmonton, Canada 1605 Posts |
Here's something you can do with a cell phone, although it probably won't help sell any of them (perhaps just the opposite):
Have a man hold his left arm straight out, parallel to the floor. Tell him that you are going to attempt to push his arm down with only one hand (your hand pushing down at his wrist area), and that he is to resist with as much strength as possible. Even though you might be able to do it, it may be quite difficult, depending on the strength of the man's arm. Now....place your cell phone in the man's right hand, which can simply be held normally at his side. Repeat the above procedure. You will discover that the man will now have no strength in his left arm, and that you are able to easily push his arm down with only two fingers. This can be a great effect if you use it as some kind of mentalism effect. How it works...this is actually not a trick, but a reality of the EMF (Electro Magnetic Field, or something like that) radiation waves coming from the cell phone. By entering the body, they actually do weaken the body. I've been told this also works with a hair dryer as well (if it's turned on). It is a really weird effect, and can be done as a trick or as a gag. Have fun. Brian |
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