Brain magic | Keith Barry

[@PavloPravdiukov]

1:00 - cut and hand twist change. watch his elbow - it was on top before the cut 3:06 - he puts a device underneath the blindfold 7:19 - he touches her back 7:46 - his hands are close enough to her, so she can feel a wind. 3-4 moves just to make sure. And when he saw her smiling, he knew for sure. 10:47 - his leg 13:57 - chemical reaction? Prince Rupert's drop? 14:14 - really awesome face reading 16:00 and after - magnet sensitive sensors inside/under the table?

[@zaephou2843]

3:06 - www.mallusionist.com/mentalism/drivingblind.shtml

[@zaephou2843]

it explains the blindfold driving trick

[@zaephou2843]

7:46: almost invisible thread, look closely at his hand movements and it looks like he is tying something.

[@ninehills42]

The magnet is probably inside his finger. A lot of magicians have it.

[@DieselHugh]

At the end... He also turned the blindfold back to front. Watch how nervous he is about letting the guy hold the blindfold. All these tricks are easy to spot except maybe the face reading part.

[@FaklaniAdib]

10:43 Look at his left leg.

[@XxloooooooolxX-wk9sy]

lol

[@dimpsbiliou5478]

what on his left leg??

[@elliottagesson2343]

I can't see it

[@amineh.3665]

bravo bravo bravo salat l7efla

[@diegabe4166]

I was looking for that the whole performance!!!

[@elsea8901]

One thing I learned late in life...The best liars never lie... They tell the truth in a way that you will interpret it wrongly...the way they want you to.

[@GnoneckOG]

Reminds me of the Aes Sedai

[@Rahul016-d6k]

Like Zakir Naik

[@CarlezeAdley]

Wow this hits me hard Lol. I used to be a pathological liar. It feels like youre directing this to me.

[@midniteryder1953]

the democrat party, the 'deep state' republicans and democrats, the 'never trumper kleptocrats of the senate and the House'....they are the best liars of all time.....

[@shanebond1975]

@@Rahul016-d6k Like western hypocrite propaganda

[@mihirnabar5738]

The raising hand magic is simple. If you watch the video again (especially the part when the lady was standing up pointing finger to the guy), you'll notice that the magician gave hints to the guy whenever it was time to raise or put down the hand, by stepping on the foot of the guy. The magician did not necessarily lie to anyone because he did say that "raise hand when you feel certain pressure" (not indicating where the pressure was going to be, here could be a pressure on the foot). The breaking bottle magic is also simple. The magician said the bottle was a coke bottle, but it was not. It was a special magic tool which could be purchased in any magic shop. keyword: Bologna bottle. The 4-cup magic used similar concept of the raising hand magic. All the audience were fooled but the participant and the magician. The plate with the spike on it was visibly unique (darker color or marks) in small distance so the participant could see it but the audience could not. In the performance, Magician asked the participant to decide which cup to be destroyed. The participant knew which cup has the spike in it by differing the plate visually. He certainly would not want to get injured by the spike.

[@viralviruz8694]

Nicely explained bud

[@SimranKaur-bf5nf]

Thanks dude 😃

[@cranjismcbasketball5366]

Nah nah...you said that the plate with the spike was visibly unique. How can one rely on the participant's observation so much that he just thrusts his hand onto the plate? Suppose he didn't notice the plate and he said yes to the plate which has a spike and since Keith has a blindfold on, he can't see if the participant has chosen the correct plate or not. Keith thrusts his hand and boom...we got fountains of blood everywhere.

[@fennelmaloney487]

@@cranjismcbasketball5366 it’s possible he was an audience plant. Keith asked the first two participants if they’d ever met before but he never asked the last (to my recollection). But since he asked the first two, the audience will give benefit of the doubt

[@fennelmaloney487]

@@cranjismcbasketball5366 Just rewatched and it looks like they do know each other. In fact the person who was told to pick an audience member told the participant that “he knew” as he came up on stage. A typical thing to say to someone which wouldn’t arouse suspicion but potentially another hint that the participant is in on the trick.

[@andrybak]

So, to collect the tricks: 1) He moves his left hand under right between 01:00 and 01:03 2) He touched woman's back at 07:19 with his right hand. 3) 10:47 He uses his leg to guide the guy. 4) 13:58 Trick is called "Bologna Bottle", google it. 5) He touches three out of four cups at 17:04 - 17:12, the one with the spike is heavier, so he knows which not to crush.

[@UserDude]

and he made very clear wind on the woman's hand so she will say tickle... that was like watching 6 years old happy that he "tricks" you... he is cute, but come on, it cannot be more obvious.

[@omarhaque9665]

I don't understand 5) though, he might touch all three but the other guy moves them while he's blindfolded?

[@psychonautshinobi4049]

UserDude he made what? anyways lets be honest these tricks are fairly easy but have you watched xendrius channel on you ttube. If not.. hold your breath little fella bcz magick and the occult does exist and magic has become a cliche so they're joining secret societies and clubs which you and me will never be invited.

[@BetterIntegra]

For 5) i would bet he sanded the bottom of the cup with the spike so he would feel the resistance on the fabric when he slid them around.

[@psychonautshinobi4049]

BetterIntegra could the trick be in the blindfold itself which if you wear it one way it enable you to see and the other way round it will not. In fact keith did seem to wear it the other way round from the way he forced it on the face of his assistant..

[@ixamraxi]

Being a TED talk, I would have assumed at the end he would have reinforced the point that all of the tricks and not magic or voodoo or psychokenises, in that our brains have been decieved. He said it in an offhand way at the beginning, but then spent the entire rest of the talk appealing to supernatural as he performed. That made it seem a bit open ended or contradictory. Would have been better if he actually revealed a tiny bit of the methodology at the end, not necessarilly to give the trick away, but to explain *how* our minds are being decieved. There are plenty of videos on youtube showing how to perform some of these tricks, so its not like he would have been ruining the trick for anyone who honestly wanted to find out how its done, but being a TED talk... I just expected less of a show, and more of, well... a talk.

[@runswithscissors1570]

Yea but that audience looks different than a normal one. This doesn't even look like a Ted Talk.

[@jwkill21]

Amra yeah, I'm trying to figure out how this is a TED talk.. wildly underwhelmed.

[@groznyentertainment]

+Amra I'm disappointed too ,, I thought there will be some science or psychology lesson in the end.

[@PonzuAnzhu]

+Amra Sadly he can't reveal his tricks though or he will blow other magician's cover. Theres alot of people who do the same tricks, just watch AGT

[@joshjerphil]

+AznNinja89 Glad to see somebody realized this. It's actually more than that, though. Magicians take on a certain "code", as magicians, to keep the way it works secret. Any magician that breaches that code by sharing trade secrets with the public would be quickly shutout from the magician community.

[@TheSkyHazCloudz]

I was kind of hoping that he'd actually explain how this all works. That kind of thing is sort of the point of TED Talks.

[@iamcamella]

TheSkyHazCloudz 11:02 just look at his left leg. :v

[@derxer614]

TheSkyHazCloudz The principal is not that hard. It's just all about directing attention away from the moments where he uses his tricks to make it work (like lifting the leg for pressure)

[@TheSkyHazCloudz]

Guys, I'm not dumb. I am capable of recognizing how he does most of the tricks. That being said, this is a TED Talk, not a Las Vegas show. It's a reasonable expectation to have.

[@davidvelez6306]

Camila Riascos okay I'm disappointed... I thought this was real

[@noobmasteryoyo5136]

TheSkyHazCloudz I wouldn't say most people could figure out the tricks without the comment section, and the main principle of magic is not to explain the tricks. The TED talk is meant to show how people are misdirected in magic shows imo

[@kajsdhflkaSE]

It's a mix of magician tricks and psychological methods. I kinda wish he laid it out though. The first one is he just straight up changes how he was holding his hands together when the camera cut. This actually works live, because when he did it, he was correcting someone, so nobody would notice the shift. The second one likely involved the mask simply being heavily tinted or the nose gap being ill fitting on his face and the hood was only opaque on one side. The third trick is also pretty simple, and let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and he actually never met these people before, simply because it would be more impressive for the 4th trick. But in this one, he barely touched her, but did it in such a way that it's really hard to notice with all the other movements he's doing. The fourth trick is where it gets interesting. when he says it's not hypnosis, he actually means that it's definitely hypnosis. You can actually hypnotize someone rather quickly if you frame it right. The only reason it normally takes so long is because of your preconceptions about how it's supposed to work. Next, when he sits down, he has his heel on the guy's foot. The only reason he's not complaining is because hypnosis, and it's also vital that he wipe the person's memory before letting him go so he doesn't give away the trick. If you want to learn how to train an assistant that you never met to follow a simple queue in a little time as possible, there you go. Fifth trick is literally exactly what you think it is. Broken glass sharp, put sharp glass in glass bottle, shake and boom, scratches plus resonant frequency equals exploding bottle. The sixth is a cold read. Start with the most common amount of letters, then next most common until you get a reaction. After that, most common first letters until you get a response, and so on until you gather enough clues to be certain that you got the right one. the responses are subconscious, so they won't even be aware that they're giving it away. The seventh can be one of two things. Either a mirror, or a marked block of wood. I'm leaning towards the wood being marked since it's an irregular substance and easy to have marked beforehand. The second part is, once again, the mask being ill fitting around the nose. Plus, it's easy to give someone a signal when your in direct contact the entire time, and when there's a spike somewhere in there, if the magician gives your hand a squeeze, you better pay attention. Btw you're welcome.

[@notelzjah4898]

Ronwe TheFallen this comments is very underrated

[@mhkuntug]

Yeah. But how do hypnosis works?

[@kajsdhflkaSE]

​@@mhkuntug My understanding is that you're focused on the instructions given while entering a flow state. Basically, flow state is letting your auto pilot take over, since the instructions that get you into that state are so simple and routine that you can do them without thinking. Or rather, without your concious brain doing any work. So, naturally, the most power hungry part of your brain decides to check out completely to save energy while the much more efficient systems take over. Another reason that this can do all of the cool stuff that hypnosis is known for is because these other systems are really good at passing the buck. What's that? someone saying 'fobscottle' suddenly makes you think of cheese? Weird. Don't look at me, this was always a thing, and you're choosing to do that of your own volition. I, your subconcious, definitely didn't autopilot right into a suggestion and forget to erase it. I had specific instructions not to.

[@mhkuntug]

@@kajsdhflkaSE yeah we better not. But still it's not clear how to give commands and how to make someone get in that "open for suggestion" situation.

[@kajsdhflkaSE]

@@mhkuntug You can find tutorials pretty easily, but a basic form of it is instruct your subject to relax, and occasionally test them by suggesting that they have the desire to, say, lift their hand, and if that doesn't work, keep bringing them deeper into relaxation until it does, and you have successfully brought them into a suggestive state. This is where you put your suggestion. Just remember that it needs to be in simple terms and you can't do too many at once or they might forget some or all of them. Next, you bring them back to a wakeful state, and congratulations, you have hypnotized someone. It's a lot harder than you may think, and you need to be able to speak clearly. It also helps if you have a pleasant voice.

[@merveilmeok2416]

Good magic tricks but could be better....I apologize in advance if some of the comments have already mentioned my remarks.1. Trick 1: Obvious trick: The magician quickly touches the female subject at 7:20 in the back with his right hand. The touching was accentuated with a full body movement (audible) of the magician towards her, to make sure she doesn't miss it.2. Trick 2: I am NOT sure how it was done. If I had slow motion capability, I'd focus on the magician's fingers to see if they touch the female subject's arm when the fingers go from below her arm to the upper position. 3. Trick 3: I am sure of it...watch: At 10:48, 11:05, and 11:15, look at the magician's left leg touching the male subject when he wants the subject to move his hand. Simple.Note that the male helper was recruited to help. Notice how he was picked out QUICKLY (before someone else stands up and volunteers to ruin the trick). The magician took his tome to pick the female helper because it didn't matter. Now the incident with the phone ringing was staged and was supposed to signal that the helper didn't know he was even going to be in an act, suggesting he was a random guy, which is why his phone not shut down. This poses two problems:a.) No one else's phone rang during the presentation. Why? It was a Ted Talk presentation being taped so everyone was TOLD to shut their phones off.c.) Even if you assume that the phone ringing were a REAL incident, someone (either the presenter or another person in charge) would have reminded the audience to make sure their phones were off. Didn't happen. Someone in the room placed that call.b. The second problem was this: why did the phone only ring ONCE? Because it was not a real phone call, it was a misdirection.

[@gocanadago1000]

Why did it matter if the guy wasn't random? The trick could've been done with a random person

[@cypriancyganek6830]

trick number two he has a tiny transaprent wire attached to his hands, look how he prepares the hands to get the wire between them and then how he holds the hands open towards each other to have it in tension. so he just slighlty passes the wire on her skin, then releases the tension and hides the left hand to not show it to the guy.

[@radseven89]

Ya seem pretty smart for someone that doesn't know youtube has slow motion settings.

[@radseven89]

Merveil Meok I try my best.

[@ioannaelia7548]

great explanation but just one thing: saying that something is staged is not smart in a trick. It wasn't staged and there is an actual explanation on it. Think of it a bit more ;)

[@Hackybaby]

but why didnt he explain the principles of his magic to us? THIS IS NOT A TED TALK just a magic trick show.

[@RobinLabadie]

+Hackybaby Same question

[@ricardofranco7419]

+Hackybaby So I think the point wasn't to say how he did it but rather to state that magic is simply misdirection. He mentions how he tries to divert your attention to something else while he performs the magic. At least that's what I got out of it.

[@elzaterken259]

+Hackybaby Pay attention to his hand at 0:57 it lagged, then at 1:11 he changed his hand's shape. Try to copy his hand shape, then you will see.

[@BatsOneURL]

+Elzat Erken Yeah the giveaway of the hand direction is the change in is his LEFT elbow. When he first asks them to cross hands, his elbow is pointing outwards but when the camera comes back after panning on Audience, his left elbow is pointing inwards ;) So when the camera panned out to the crowd crossing their hands, he must have rotated his arm. So basically it would have been extremely obvious if the camera was still on him so they edited crowd in to stop it being seen.

[@chadntm8189]

+Hackybaby the principle of magic is deception... you are believing it only because he told you " he doesn't know them " when in fact he does know them if you go to 10:47 pay attention to keith's left leg...you will notice a muscle contraction..that's how he is able to let the guy know when to move his hand

[@whyshouldntibesoangry]

1:01 it's so impressive how he completely stops time to hid the switching of his hands here, really shows the power of the mind

[@prathamesh4901]

man thats a great observation 😮

[@mayoman5446]

1:00 he froze the screen so we couldn’t point out that he just moved his arms around

[@Fwench]

i found his trick ... when he sits at the table and tells the lady to point at the guys forehead look at his left leg...he tips the guy off( he lifts his foot up or down ) so he knows when to move his hand ('-_-)

[@SnipperPain]

mangafreak2001 those are some keen eyes you got there xD

[@Fwench]

thx

[@m.fikrialhafidh5178]

because that was the "pressure" he meant to the guy

[@PrenticeNeto]

TED Talks are for people who want to learn things. Magicians who don't tell how their tricks work don't teach anything. TED Talk is no place for magicians like that.

[@loganroberts6600]

It's welcome to all

[@Anonymous18531]

TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design Note what the 'E' stands for.

[@Thelegoterrapin]

Yeah, I agree. I have a feeling this would have been a FANTASTIC TED talk if he explained how he managed to misdirect our attention, as well as the second sight trick. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and I got a magic show instead. David Blaine's talk is how a magician should present at TED.

[@nhall022]

Thelegoterrapin David Blain's talk was not about a magic trick.

[@anthony452]

considering the shit TED has censored; this is almost a slap in the face.

[@MrMoodyKSA]

10:36 look at Keith's left leg as it press on that guy feet "only when you feel the pressure," he said. he did not specify what kind of pressure because the audiance thought it was from his hand. but the pressure that he ment was from him using his feet

[@sasukegothittas]

+Hisoka senpai BINGO!

[@TheRealDomPlus]

just saw the same!

[@graysonmccoy4338]

Niccee

[@rnqtn]

I love seeing how they mess up xD

[@shyamsundargurjar8555]

Yes , exactly

[@ffuukkyootoobffuukkyootoob1411]

I'm with everyone else. As a show, this is very entertaining. As a TED,. it's disappointing. As a TED, I would have expected him to help people understand how the tricks work, so that when charlatans and quacks do it, they will see through the misdirection.

[@roulpops2699]

Im' 100% with you, i expected a little explaining, not just another "magician" trick...This isn't worthy of a TED talk... Shoutout to the comment saying to watch his left leg at 10:43 btw

[@shafiqrashid2010]

Oh my god im the same!!!

[@lokendraannamunthodo7857]

I guess you are not 📵 from this world. Don't you know the 🙊 saying "Magicians never tell".

[@WILLYLYNCH.]

@@lokendraannamunthodo7857 then go on a magic show. Pretty lame and not the right guest for a Ted talk. People are trying to learn and understand, not just be entertained.

[@josepablobermudez6283]

If he tells everyone how the tricks work he loses his job

[@rex3837]

He used a piece of hard aluminium oxide ceramic that is found on spark plugs to break the bottle the ceramic on spark plugs even a small piece slightly thrown at glass will shatter the glass

[@shteam7294]

how did he figure out the name ?

[@Princedemars]

@@shteam7294 Target Preparation, that's very common with charlatans. and Mind readers. etc.

[@ryanyoung3895]

The girl was in on the act. So was the guy. Watch 10:43 and watch his left leg when the "pressure is released" he lifts his foot off the other guys foot so he knows when to put his hand up

[@fatherra2534]

@@ryanyoung3895 yes lol i think the whole purpose of this is called art of illusion, obviously even if you can't spot the tricks theres a logical and natural explanation to whatever "phenomenon" occurs.

[@youtubebenutzer1184]

He did Not necacarily needed to, just use a coin and try it by yourself, But shake it harder and longer

[@arnavkumar6277]

The showmanship he has shown is just brilliant! This was worth watching at least once!

[@HVYMETL]

Keith is so good at deception. Very cool to watch. At 11:05 you can see his leg rise, releasing the pressure on the guys foot. The guy has never been told that the audience is watching the woman's hand, He thinks he's supposed to be reacting to pressure on the foot.

[@lc2c177]

But is the guy hypnotised or playing along? Is this form of instant hypnosis possible?

[@arnavkumar6277]

but he mentioned that it's on the wave of the hand, then guy would've blown the whistle, no?

[@SplittingProductions]

One of my favorite TED talks is "The Art of Misdirection from Apollo Robbins" because that's a talk where he shows off his skills and it's great to watch, but he actually made you think and he showed you what he was doing. This guy was fun to watch, but I didn't learn anything or question myself to anything. Kinda bummed about that.

[@patricioansaldi8021]

yup I saw that one too and I agree

[@SlippinJimmy4Life]

It seems like a real TED talk at first... but that's only an illusion!

[@arianadolores5769]

N64 Classics true 😂😂😂😂😂

[@xxxxxGhostBoyxxxxx]

lmao

[@sinayemdiniso2761]

😂

[@bhaskarbaruah5075]

😂😂

[@stormysamreen7062]

Exactly, that's the point.

[@JonathanAlmeida]

If everyone in the comments section can only see this video as a bunch of magic tricks, then you haven't yet realized the point he was trying to make: "training your minds in the art of deception". He gets your attention to follow where he looks and what he points at, but not the actions he performs when he's not looking at it. This is everything that he explains in-between the video as well around 5:45. > "TED Talks are for people who want to learn things." Yes, and today I learned how people focus their attention when told what to do.

[@danielocean8730]

^this guy actually gets it. Thank goodness!!!

[@SavateyHeang]

Those comments started to depress me until yours came along. Thank you.

[@cryptoyaqui6812]

Amazing how they still do the bottle trick. This is a specially made bottle where the surface tension is greater inside than outside. My chemistry teacher in High School showed us this.

[@anirudhamishra5341]

Moreover of science experiment in video ig?

[@jayashreemahanta6208]

7:18 look at his left hand while he took his hand to her back for tapping in her back

[@priyanksisodia5889]

Yeahhh

[@saluto1397]

He also touched her wrist..

[@jonnyrocket3659]

he tapped her on the back with his right hand... he must have tapped her twice very quickly

[@weedybongzalez8333]

He literally tells her what she gotta say...what the fuq... Like.. U feeled this and that and this and that there Right? Fuqin faker He never lets Others Talk actually... Even if He asks for Response,He immediantly Talks for Thema,or what He thinks they have to say this how U Know He s more of an Thief Then an magician and wants to Control and use U Like a puppet

[@ryanc0llins]

At 7:20 you can see his right arm stroke up her back. The hand part is a camera trick as well, he's gently brushing past her arm but the way she describes it is vague because she can't actually see whats happening only feel it. He even leads her to the answer he wants by asking "was it a tickling sensation". The other guy is his accomplice. The next part about the pressure is done conveniently at a table to hide the signal he gives him to move his arm up or down, he nudges him in the leg with his foot. At 10:50 you can actually see his leg move. 14:11 it's obviously something to do with the bottle or shard of glass, not sure what but clearly it isn't energy created by though. 17:45 he signals using his hands which cups are which and where to move them. MAGIC.

[@BarryWraps]

at 14:00 watch closely at the top of the bottle mate, there must have been a chemical, and the piece of "glass" isnt glass at all, it must be some kind of reactant of the chemical at the bottom of the glass

[@TheBigShotJonesy]

Damn Jesus, I was just going to mention how he gently kicks his leg under that table with the enormous table cloth. Haha lame magician.

[@olivercasey3530]

14:00 was a bologna bottle it is made when a bottle is heated then the inside is quickly cooled while the outside is slowly cooled this causes stress on the inside of the bottle while the outside is strong because of the stress on the inside of the bottle.

[@gonssavm4048]

i dont get the last one, could you explain it better?

[@don_juant]

Jorge Daniel No. That's pretty much about as simple of an explanation as it gets.

[@michaelpatrick]

I cant believe nobody else noticed or commented on the fact that the volunteer male on stage was wearing a suit with socks and sandals.

[@juanbacilioalvarado4797]

+Patrick O'Reilly oh , I was wondering about that !!

[@cybertree]

+Patrick O'Reilly Ugh I know, I don't know much about fashion, but that'd definitely a misdemeanor.

[@jedkleppen]

+Patrick O'Reilly Watch his leg nearest to the "random" male "participant" when the woman moves her arm up and down.

[@OldHickory7]

he's basically a stoner daylabor plant. along with the sandals, I bet he showed up to the event with a only a t-shirt and maybe even shorts or something. so the magician would have had to hastily find or borrow a sportcoat and some pants or just anything that could make it look even remotely plausible he would ever pick that dude.

[@dawgyv72]

+Patrick O'Reilly That's not a suit.

[@Diedrich92]

1:00 i like how the video freezes like when he does the move so i cant see it.

[@anishgokhale5389]

Thats there on purpose put by TED so that people on youtube who have the power to replay again and again cant figure it out. But of course we can.

[@DomJLva]

Divad Mlap you don't really need 1:00 I think we all clearly know how he did it

[@kubatvalorant5776]

Divad Mlap he releases his hands and changes them why doesnt anyone realise that

[@katomane6116]

Gamen Met Turk lmao .. because we’re not there in person .. when he changed his arm it’s off camera . Brain magic is simply thinking which many have a hard time doing .

[@stefanvandijk7114]

@@DomJLva Thats what I thought. Just enough room in your sleeve and turn your left hand the other way around.

[@pageturner72]

Everyone's saying that he shouldn't be so popular because his magic is fake, but the whole point of the talk is that he's deceiving our minds.. and he's darn good at it

[@Supreme_Lobster]

Nobody's saying that tho

[@notfake2041]

@@Supreme_Lobster oh... You checked him out 4 months ago... Cool

[@jakedanielsen4512]

​@@Supreme_Lobster Yeah, that's never been an argument against any kind of magic trick

[@steveblack720]

how did he deceive our minds? With a lag on the camera so nobody can see what happened? With faked video that is cut in so many places? With actors on stage? Really deceiving. He deceived you if you believed it

[@ldanley72]

He"s a really bad magician. @7:18 He touched her back, He made the mate look at her eyes. @8:17 you can see the object he touch her with. @11:15 he used his left leg to signal the guy to drop his hand. The coke bottle trick was nothing but science. It's called Bologna Bottle. Before he got on stage he heated the bottle and rapidly cooled the internal part of the bottle. He could have used the bottle to nail a nail through a board, but the piece of glass, when shaken within the bottle created a very small scratch which was enough for the bottle's mass to become unstable and blast a part.

[@search4goosebumps297]

I don't see the device but I see the leg part.

[@tomatoaim1]

+Len Danley You have great observations skills!

[@Xynic48]

Keith Barry not only especializes in deception but also in hypnotism. So I think in the "lifting the arm" trick what he did first is to put the guy in a state of hypnosis (he said he didnt but he definitely did) so after the trick when he "released" the guy from hypnosis, he made the guy forget that the pressure was on his foot so if anybody ask he wouldnt know. I just also just want to make clear that Hypnosis is not magic, its science. It works by putting someone in a trance (kinda half-asleep) by a combination of verbal and physical methods. Hypnosis is even being used by doctors to treat depression.

[@BeyondSideshow]

+Len Danley I don't think the fact that we can figure out what he did on video -and that you took the time to explain these techniques - makes him "bad" at anything. This show was established by Barry himself as a demonstration on misdirection - he more or less urged the viewers to pay attention to where he is leading said attention. And then demonstrated, very well in my opinion, how it isn't that easy. (Also - the camera angle betrays the leg movement, it wouldn't be visible from the audience.)

[@JasonSGcn]

I saw it ! All about tricks

[@2320RG]

He says only when u feel the pressure, he didn't say where the pressure was going to be, we assume he's talking about the mans hand, but the man with his eyes closed feels the pressure on his foot, the deception is with the audience. The man with his eyes closed feels the pressure on his foot, and he's instructed to move his hand when he feels that pressure, we are being deceived into thinking that the pressure is magically being felt without being touched

[@philipgritman6836]

Thats stupid

[@Bbfishman]

Philip Gritman it sure is stupid but thats whats happening. that may not be the real reason for what went on, but thats what happened. Watch his leg when they give the camera angle with the woman standing, and the two men sitting at the table. The 'magician' raises and lowers his leg when the woman begins to raise and lower her hand...which in turn tells the man with his eyes closed, when to raise and lower his hand. So he is the middle man, relaying the information between them, by lifting and lowering his leg and pretending that they have some sort of mental "connection" because he has the one man "hypnotized"....its all bullshit. Anybody who believes in "magic" is uneducated or hoping for something to be real just so they can feel a certain sense of happiness that anything is possible.....there is ALWAYS a rational explanation for every single thing that happens in this world. Sure there are rare instances where events work out in a way that is statistically rare and therefore we try to label it as a 'miracle' or something along those lines, but thats simply an event that is bound to happen at some point, given enough repetition. Take the lottery for example, extremely low odds of ever winning, but somebody has to win, so those things people try to explain as "miracles" in everyday life are simply those statistical anomalies. That and magic are two very different things and im not trying to compare magic to the lottery. The second part of my rant comparing the two, was simply to explain the nature of rare/random events that occur in everyday life not being 'magic' but simply statistics.

[@2320RG]

U guys miss the mark

[@philipgritman6836]

Oh boy.....settle down brainiod

[@jameskopacz]

Ryan Gonda Philip Gritman You can see him doing it with his left leg at 10:45

[@3vimages471]

I was very impressed …. until I read the comments section.

[@TheAdult100]

same here...pfft

[@redsavitra]

So do i... Haha

[@whatwhat4226]

😂🤣😂

[@ShadhaOmer]

Totally. I should stop reading comments before watching the video.

[@gopalrandheer7781]

Wow that's true. He is giving hint by his leg

[@mitvishwakarma]

7:44 look he wringles his fingers to get a thread through which he scratches her hand 🤭🤭

[@ElectronicSkateboard]

Good catch, probably kevlex, invisible thread used for object levitations.

[@sayedmuhammadidrees1453]

Gotcha

[@umer2023]

You nailed it man!

[@alexwest5106]

Looks like he actually did touch her, with his sleeve. Hardly visible because his hand had a bigger distance

[@reigjinali681]

Look from 10:57 to 11:5 leg moving signal under the table :D

[@shishirpoudel8418]

i noticed every thing when i watched it next time

[@Chan-bu4xz]

+Rei Gjinali Its ironic how he displays characteristics of lying mentioned in another TED video "How to Spot a Liar."

[@jumanaat]

+Rei Gjinali loooool

[@reigjinali681]

*****​ Its your opinion i give it my... Cheers

[@BumAngel2001]

+Ad Vitam Aeternam why is a respectfully looking woman a bimbo?

[@sally9504]

Haha i like how they put "How to spot a Liar" as the next video...

[@geradtomic5283]

Hahaha, so they really did it on purpose? lol

[@chibichannn4037]

gosh hello army hahah

[@ramzaayman1919]

Hehehehehe

[@devorium3333]

What a load of bull

[@robswright68]

2 years later and it is still the next video.

[@Yash-ix1ln]

Damn people in comment section are more brilliant than him

[@Suraj-kw3ou]

yup 🤭

[@subhamkumarsah933]

Lol

[@Anduardus]

it's one person up against a community with the tools of the internet.

[@akashrathod595]

😂

[@fakecheese9444]

Trick with cups: the way he wore the blindfold he could see under the fold what was happening on the table. The spiked piece is a bit heavier than the other three and has different balance. We did the trick as kids.

[@KingofSenf]

11:00 watch Keith's leg!!!

[@dahrrg]

U got it, thanks

[@phamtienhung7114]

yes. you're right. But why did they do ? What would they get from that ???????

[@druprice243]

Phạm Tiến Hùng if he raises his leg then they raised their hand, same with lowering it.

[@Soniquexonly]

I watched the same thing ! He presses and releases the pressure of hist FOOT on the "random" man. That's why the table is covered fully to the floor. Sorry for my mistakes in english. This are just tricks nothing more.

[@AnthonyTangNZ]

Well the guy's says, you'll find a certain type of pressure. Only when you feel that pressure release, lift your hand up. We look at his hand doing magiciany stuff to avoid looking at his foot. So to us, it's magic. TO the guy at the table, he's just feeling pressure on his foot or something lol.

[@qhsperson]

Re the car illusion--ask yourself, why a mask AND a hood? Surely either would be sufficient, so why both? Because when he puts the hood on, we can't see that he's pulled the mask down onto his cheeks or shoved it up onto his forehead, and he can see through the hood. That's why he keeps telling the girl to watch the road, focus on the road--if she gets a good look at his face, she'll realize she can see through the hood and therefore, so can he. The hood is there to block our vision, not his.

[@tumold]

Hmm that sounds like an interesting proposition that I COULD believe if only the girl later pulls off the hood showing that the mask is still in place at 4:38. I'm not convinced you're on the right track.

[@qhsperson]

tumold It is edited video.

[@pmarceau]

What i find good about that, Is It is so simple I overlooked it. :) I usually expect these people to be more tricky. See comment above. But TV magic we must always remember, they control what we see. That is why Penn and Teller are my favorite... Magic/Illusion performers. They reveal their own tricks, then come up with new tricks.

[@TheNewsDepot]

qhsperson It's actually much simpler than that. He drove that course likely dozens if not hundreds of times until he could do it blindfolded.

[@qhsperson]

Chad C. It's actually funny that you think that's a simpler answer.

[@OrkristLoL]

7:17 is some top tier asmr for a moment

[@thatfourwheelerchannel8663]

I was looking for this comment.

[@NoFontNL]

He said he had the car not gimmicked and he could not see through the blindfold. Both are true, but the blindfold itself was gimmicked so that he could take it off when the 'bag' was put on which was also gimmicked. You can actually see through the bag if you pull the bag in a certain way. The girl couldn't see anything when she had them on because she didn't know how the gimmick worked

[@chiragpatidar5937]

Look at his left leg at 11:05....and everything will be clear how he was doing that.

[@lsagar]

took a while but i saw it. He was lifting his leg to indicate that she was raising her hand

[@uibrahi0]

Good catch!!

[@0xeb-]

Good work.

[@jackryan2988]

you nailed it

[@janehonda4073]

I would say at 11:04

[@solo1y]

The first thing he does is a very well-understood and a very old magic trick called "Hidden Touch". It's one of the easiest tricks to do. Any KZbin commenter can do it with about five minutes training. It uses what's called "dual reality" i.e. what the audience thinks is happening is slightly different to what the people involved in the trick think is happening. This should not be on TED. It's not teaching anyone anything. It tells us nothing about how the human brain works. All it does is showcase Keith Barry as a magician. Which is fine, but we have magic shows for that.

[@solo1y]

When you touch them, it's about two minutes before everyone else thinks you've touched them. It's called "dual reality".

[@rnqtn]

Barry Purcell, oh cool trying to correct a video that was in 2008...

[@solo1y]

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

[@gresham4898]

You can see his leg move up and down on the mans foot 11:00 ish

[@shuhaibthawoos1569]

What you said summarised the idea in my head.the thing about dual reality. when you stated that this should not be on TED because it doesn't teach anyone anything. I believe you did teach me something. knowledge isn't spoon fed all the time but we would love it to be.

[@zacharoninoodle]

I don't like that he openly lied. If he had explained it after it had happened, this TED talk would be a lot more beneficial for people.

[@92Pyromaniac]

When did he lie?

[@mauroangst]

Look at 11:00, he is moving his leg to tell the guy when to move his hand. The "brain magician" is lying to all of us with a lot of distraction. He should tell everyone the secret, or talk about distractions and how they work, not talk about brain control while he is doing dumb movements with his leg

[@coldravioli7839]

If he explained how it all worked, then it wouldn't be nearly as impressive. No one cares about. To quote The Prestige, "The trick impresses no one. The trick youuse it for is everything."

[@MrMetan812]

i'm a russiam magician and this is ordinary trick with invisible loop (sold im magic shop), special cups, legs movements, management of your attention and etc. TED is no good channel, i understood this many times. Sorry for my english ;-)

[@Riseky]

+Nacho Minirazor +Mauro angst He didn't lied. He explained that most illusions and tricks are done through deception. This is one comment explaining it "The first thing he does is a very well-understood and a very old magic trick called "Hidden Touch". It's one of the easiest tricks to do. Any KZbin commenter can do it with about five minutes training. It uses what's called "dual reality" i.e. what the audience thinks is happening is slightly different to what the people involved in the trick think is happening." So basically the pressure was probably his foot over the one on that guy, but since he had eyes closed he could'n understand the trick from the audience point of view. From his perspective there was no magic, no illusion. He was just lifting and lowering his hand basing on Keith foot pressure. It's a very clever trick if we couldn't see his leg, because there was no "cheating" in that sense, he didn't knew the volunteer. But yes, I agrere that TED is an educative event not a "let-me-show-you-my-tricks" event, so he should at least explaing those tricks

[@psychicsnail658]

This isn't a collaboration its simply the power of suggestion.

[@orionstar6747]

At 1:00 he says to a member of the audience: "yours are the other way round, so swap it around", so that he can change his position of his hand, camera turns away to the audience.....

[@19sept76]

I noticed

[@abhinavseth8088]

yup

[@SpiritualTech]

yah you are right

[@sayedalsharaf]

Not really 😅 all he did was rotate his arm the other way around.

[@muhammadzaiful2002]

That's for us, but how about the audience, did they noticed that?

[@MizzMizz2241]

lol i love how the camera glitches at 1:02 so he can switch his hand around

[@Ungtartog]

+mike mahon Yup... I figured out what he did and have repeated the trick several times. No one has caught it on the first attempt so far. The majority of the instructions are just given to keep your attention on your own hands so he can switch his without you noticing. The give away is the position of his shoulders... when his hands first cross his shoulders are pretty level, then the camera cuts away as he unclasps his hands. When we see the shot again, one of his shoulders is much lower then the other due to the fact that he reversed the rotation of his wrists when he rejoined his hands. Happy tricking! Just remember to instruct your victims to pay close attention to the position of *their* thumbs when you change the position of your hands.

[@Piotrmiko]

The tricks are pretty impressive, still, I feel it was kind of a waste of time. Please do enlighten me if I'm just missing the point, but TED's profile is "Ideas worth sharing", and I see no ideas shared here, don't really feel like I learned anything.

[@BasicallyBananas]

Completely agree. The pick pocket one is 10x better

[@uniqueusername_]

yes!

[@treetrunk4105]

"E" in TED stands for Entertainment.

[@rogerstone9173]

Keith Barry was the chief magic and mentalism consultant for Now You See Me 2.

[@andy4dude]

So many comments about how it was done. People first appreciate the guy's effort, his performance. Don't immediately start applying ur logic & reasoning. Appreciate magic first, life is magical but by applying all sorts of silly logic & reasoning we kill the fun of life. Be it brain magic, illusion whatever. It was perfectly presented & was thoroughly entertaining!

[@Santiino]

On a ted talk it should be more explaining than entertainment The comment section is definitely ted like how it should be

[@anjalidavid1924]

This was really good. He was confident, entertaining and precise at what he did! Loved the show from start to end!

[@vijayperiasamy1044]

Car trick: The eye mask he uses has a loop that goes under his nose (3:11). He pulls it down from his eye in the guise of adjusting the sack mask (3:19). He can see through the thin sack mask.

[@darkrealm946]

No, at 4:40 when she pulls off face mask, his blindfolds are still in position. If he'd altered it then they would have misplaced. There has to be some other explanation for this trick.

[@rahulchandran4219]

@@darkrealm946 That black shade is a video display like VR. The camera capture the roads.

[@vijayperiasamy1044]

@@darkrealm946 My guess is he holds the loop between teeth. Maybe the whole mask does not move away from his eyes, but small slot (for the eyes) are created by pulling the loop. He may just have to release the loop to close it back after stopping car. The loop seems to have no other purpose than facilitating the trick.

[@claytonbing16]

@@rahulchandran4219 Exactly this: The driving trick is just a heads up display on the first mask he puts on. Look at 3:05 how stiff it is. And again at 4:40. Plus all the cameras on board. He specifically says 'I couldn't see through the blindfold, and the car was not gimmicked in any way". This still meets both those definitions.

[@krishnagosavi1956]

Just observe Barry's leg movement & other's hand movements at 11.04 & 11.16....

[@mightyhero]

Breaking a coke bottle is a well known magic trick. Once you scar the inside of the bottle with a piece of glass (or sharp metal, etc.), then the glass breaks easily.

[@mightyhero]

The magic trick is known as the "Bologna Bottle." A Bologna bottle, or "Bologna phial", is a glass bottle which has great external strength, often used in physics demonstrations and magic tricks. The exterior is generally strong enough that one could pound a nail into a block of wood using the bottle as a hammer, however even a small scratch on the interior would cause it to crumble. It is created by heating a glass bottle then slowly cooling the outside whilst rapidly cooling the inside. This causes the external strength and internal stress such that even a scratch on the inside is sufficient to shatter the bottle.

[@jasonubalde]

why the does the video cuts when he first obviously change the position of his hand.. to not reveal the "secret" trick? or is my computer broken?

[@Aiden652]

+JaeJames It cuts. I noticed as well.

[@stelley08]

yeah, he unlocks the original grip to "point to a member in the audience" then when he goes to turn his left hand back to the grip, he faces his palm to the roof and keeps going in an anti clockwise direction (from his POV) then relocks his grip

[@Radonatos]

Absolutely - it's not a "mind trick", it's video editing - and at that point I realised that this video apparently has nothing to offer. Unlike that guy suggested with the gesture, I only could give the the video one thumb down, although it deserves two.

[@stephaniejane6168]

+Radonatos no stelly08 is right

[@HaHa-uq1nd]

It's deception

[@Aman1984]

11:04 look how his left foot moves to guide the guy. "magician" like him you can hire them for a kids party for 10 bucks/hour

[@roopmateebachan6597]

Leroy

[@jpcancela]

So are those people part of the act? Because some people woundl't stand for faking for this guy....

[@caweren222]

jpcancela Normally when a magician asks people "we've never met before, right?" they most likely have. Most of the shows i've seen, if the random guy/girl genuinely are random, they won't ask them. Becuase, the audience already know they're picked at random. When they ask then if they've met before, they try to make the illusion that they really are random, stronger.

[@Aman1984]

no, but at least try something more impressive and not that obvious

[@folkarad]

they dont have to know each other, i think he just moves the leg so he lifts the tapestry on the table, so the other guy really feels a "pressure decreasing", its just subtle and not in the hand, but the leg.

[@gregurbanek186]

He starts using misdirection right of the bat by repeating "slight of hand". The focus is now off of his legs. Excellent mind control. Thank you.

[@flak6487]

that bottle trick was just simple chemistry, and the seeing out each others eyes was the magician remembering the route

[@dizont]

i was hoping to see some real brain magic, but it was just simple tricks :/ and tricks with "random" people participating are so unreliable :/ i had a friend "magician" and i was always the "random" guy at his shows

[@venomrush_]

Watch his left leg at 11:03. When she lifts her arm his leg does something under the table to alert the guy to lifts his arm.

[@thepedrorriva]

And he does it again when its time to put the arm back down.... That's not even magic, that's stupid. What an idiot.

[@nolyspe]

***** In the case of the coke bottle I think the shard of glass was a Prince Rupert's drop

[@venomrush_]

I think that might be the case.

[@FavJam]

you figured it out ... good job man.

[@InkawgNeetoh]

Oh, oh!! "When you want the pressure released". Maybe he had his foot on top of the other guy's foot, putting more or less "pressure" on it by lifting or settling his foot.

[@LoneGunner-c4p]

11:15 the trick is explained. Look at his left leg. It goes down as soon as her hand goes down signaling the man to lower his hand. 👍

[@DDD-vz6mr]

11:00, he signals the guy with his feet. other times he doesnt shake his leg but upward he shakes it and downward he shakes the leg (signal)

[@danielsolomon3794]

Actually its not a signal. There is no pre show work. Watch the video again and think about the mans perspective. He wasn't told it was a pressure on his hand. Thats why he wasn't supposed to undestand the trick. Nothing was weird or cool for him.

[@zeboy1959]

@@danielsolomon3794 Yh at 9:25-10:07 he's setting up what means up and what means down, I don't think he was his team mate

[@samuelbrown5068]

As many people have also pointed out, the male volunteer was obviously a plant, and here's one other thing that proves it. Notice how, after the phone goes off, he has the male an female volunteers switch places. That's because the female had moved to the wrong position for the trick, he needed the male, who was in on it and could see what was happening, to be the one with his eye's open. Also note how during the touching trick he planted the word "tickling" in her mind, even though he probably was using wind to blow on her. The audience is obviously going to think the trick worked, so there's a disconnect between what she meant and what the audience thinks she meant when she said "tickling".

[@LucasRodmo]

Actually is simpler, he touches her in the "magnetic thing" part, very quickly, but if you watch it again you will get it.

[@-theory-hd7348]

Samuel Brown my thoughts were that he had a piece of small wire ob his fingers and was tickling her arm hairs. but both of us could be right

[@stantin17]

No need for a plant... You can see that the "pressure" he was applying was to the male's leg, not his arm.

[@TheBloodsuger150]

Stantinn yes but if he wasn't a plant he wouldn't think it was to the arm

[@stantin17]

That's the magic of the illusion. The subject feels it on his leg, and the audience sees it on his hand. The audience doesn't know what the subject feels, and the subject doesn't know what the audience sees. Still no need for a plant, because the subject doesn't know that the audience thinks that the magician is touching his arm...

[@halendavis6120]

At 10:28 the guy with his eyes closed should have stood up or asked if he was talking to him because if his eyes were closed he wouldn't have known that he was pointing at the girl and asking her to stand up so I think they had this rehearsed

[@zokm8165]

The guy was hypnotized, and the magician had his foot on top of the guys foot.

[@betterself5935]

Anyone watching this in 2021? Still amazing!

[@societyofsin]

The only amazing thing is that anyone trusts some guy that they have never met before.

[@globe255]

Namely and it is exactly because of that, that people are so easy to manipulate. BRAINWASHING = hypnosis (manipulation of the conscious and unconscious mind) + repetition/intimidation ↔ exposé of vulnerability + repetition/intimidation ↔ “caring”+ repetition/intimidation ↔ MANIPULATION.

[@niveshproag8660]

In front of an audience you are.

[@denbecr49]

An extreme. famous example is the Milgram experiment. Google it.

[@simondr70]

6:35 dude in black suite with white Birkenstock sandals

[@jamescrow4915]

And socks

[@emmanuelmbao686]

kkkkkkkki

[@Sushobhit333]

so that he can feel the pressure on his foot, which a man with shoes wouldn't have been able to.

[@JakeBroe]

I did the arm cross trick at a lecture on a class of teachers and it was hilarious. They fell for it!

[@skyfelon]

14:00 its just a Physics

[@hughmungus4118]

the 2,392 dislikes are from Mike

[@gustavlp]

He most likely touched the guy's foot behind the table when he started to "realease the pressure", and since he didn't randomely select those two audience members (for instance by throwing out a ball over his shoulder) they were definitely in on it. There's nothing in illusionary arts that prohibit you from lying.. ^^

[@raketnight]

he is stepping on him when he says apply pressure and lifts when there is no pressure. you can clearly see his thai move around 10:30 ish.

[@franyersegui4159]

but this wasnt noted the first time which is the magic of magic

[@Agonzo94]

the "pressure" was his foot stepping on his signaling him

[@pranormalsubliminalsdailyt9115]

Impressive way to direct energies through words.

[@EddieLeal]

If you look closely at the hosts upper left leg at 11:05, you can see it rise and lower as he is giving the commands to the lady. He is using his left leg/foot to communicate to the guy when to raise and lower his arm. Oh well. Such is the world of "magic"

[@sriberovairo]

09:49 I enjoyed very much this Chandler Bing and Geddy Lee crossover

[@lupaka]

That car was the first “Tesla” u can’t fool me

[@gopalakrishnansubramani4770]

Keith uses his left leg, he lift it up to simulate pressure up, he lifts down to simulate pressure down, along left hand fingers to make squeeze noise to give glue to person sitting on the chair. He hides his left hand fingers using right hand palm. The one he shown on the Video was not supposed to be real drive, as you can observe too many cut and clip changes. Regarding the lady who raised the hand, she had pressure on her hand while raising her hand couple seconds, having certain close move there was electro effect on her hand, she believed that her hand been touched. Wonderful illustration, except the video part.

[@sundriyalanirudh5]

I noticed this too

[@vijayperiasamy1044]

Hand touching trick: Has transparent rubber band on his hand which he uses to touch lady's hand (pulls the band on both hands at 7:44)

[@MisterF_1984]

this isn't a ted talk, this is a fairly ordinary stage show.

[@SuperNumber420]

Well the E in TED does stand for entertainment.

[@tejasnakhate]

The video has a glitch at 1:01 At this point he turns his left hand 180 degrees to make that first trick work.

[@ashishash5784]

Just observe the magician move his left leg at 11:05 and hence signalling other person....its clear that the 2 people from the audience were in this play

[@shanu-9985]

Well you guys might be thinking that its a cheap little trick, but actually its really smart..... When this act started he mentioned to be aware of a 'certain pressure' which is the pressure of foot that is being applied on the man's foot. To us the perspective of the pressure was some 'magical hand gestures' but to the man....it was the foot.

[@gameprankster3035]

They cut the video because people watching it will notice the trick, because we are not doing it so we will not be manipulated on his trick.

[@JANEEDISTURBED]

There's a lot of suggestive signals within this man's presentation. Reverse psychology as well. However, the glass bottle part, ABSOLUTELY TRUE. It's happened to me. Not exactly in this way, but with glass melting and glass busting without me touching it.

[@WarBeanz]

Yes his leg at 11:03 gives the signal. The people are assistants.

[@dazuk1969]

Anybody that is moaning that this is not a Ted talk should watch the first few minutes again...he may not have a whiteboard and sharpy ...but he explains very well what he is doing, and how he is doing it...you just have to listen.....peace.

[@windstorminator]

these are one of the videos where you should disable comments, the commenters broke this guy down easier than NaCl and H20 ;)

[@buteverybodycallsmegiorgio]

TED: Tamerica's Egot Dtalent

[@zoki.to974]

touching the hand part: 7:43 he takes end of the "string" from one hand to other and on 7:52 he release from right hand 7:58 he drops it on the floor.

[@shabegsandhu6117]

that was the whole point sherlock

[@Harzlek]

Would be nice if he shared the psychological background to his tricks rather than hint at interesting mental deceptions.

[@de4thnote164]

The Coke bottle was a paid actor

[@StevenChisham]

for that first trick, thank the camera man for cutting away at the most critical point in which he switches hand positions.

[@manbearpiglett-4110]

Not going to call him a scumbag, but he's doing a great, simply excellent job of entertaining people, earning his money, and sending people home confused and amazed. How wonderful.

[@dragoninspiredqueen1809]

17:21 Keith: Is there any way to see through it? The man *saying 'No' while closed his eyes*

[@HyperLuminal]

Did you notice he also puts the blindfold on backwards compared to how he had the man look through it?

[@D4RKBRU73]

To all the people screaming their pubertal, uneducated rages here, saying Keith Barry doesn't belong on TED: *TED* is an abbreviation for " Technology Entertainment & Design " Keith Barry was entertaining us, therefore he was absolutely within the guidelines. And nowhere in the title did it say *talk*. So please go and throw your tantrums elsewhere kids !

[@patricioansaldi8021]

yeah but how many other ted talks are pure entertainment?

[@patricioansaldi8021]

@silverfoxeater you can go anywhere for a magic show, people go to ted to learn something. Unless it was explicit in the event schedule, I would have been disappointed if I went to that "talk".

[@Jejeco]

I agree. No one is allowed to criticize anything if they didn't like the content. I agree 100% with you. Let us not express our dismay and frustration towards content creators in hopes to improve the quality of the show. You are absolutely right. I also think that acronyms and abbreviations are much more important than a tangible "common sense" of what is expected of a show. Thank you so much for your insightful comment. I hope they show us a toy story movie next "Technology Entertainment and Design" show. Or maybe just a picture of a building. Thanks again.

[@biggSHNDO]

legend says-and the legend's right-that i still have blue balls waiting for him to explain why this phenomenon is what it is

[@abhilashtp6917]

That hand thing, he and the audience were parallel till the mid way but when he released the hold just to switch the twist of the left arm the other way as if he was guiding the audience saying things like fingers, thumbs blah blah to make audience busy with the positioning . After saying that you can see his left elbow knocked against his body(switch) which was outwards initially. Watch it carefully at 1:00 he unholded and look at this elbow which is outward and at 1:04 you can simply see the difference. Just think in reverse what he showed the so called mind blowing twist at the end.

[@majormerc]

Once a magician always a magician

[@kevinscottbailey8335]

How is this a TED talk?! It's literally just an ad for "Keith Barry, parlor trick man."

[@simonebonfanti3983]

11.15. ... U can see his leg saying to that guy to lower the arm

[@zacharoninoodle]

Simone Bonfanti legs don't speak

[@HearfourDataSS]

+Nacho Minirazor ggwp

[@mayihaveacupofteaplz8388]

Simone Bonfanti you were right！his leg moves everytime when the girls arm moves

[@masukuma]

caught that too

[@thisunsudaraka7540]

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[@kashmirabhingare6427]

At 13:00 the piece of glass that he gave her is a Prince Rupert's drops it is a piece of glass which has a bulb like structure with a tail the bulb structure is very very strong but if the tail is brown then the entire piece breaks. So when the lady shaked the bottle the tail broke and thus the bottle too broke bcz of explosion

[@DrAnisIrani]

The coke bottle trick is old, you pour boiling water inside the bottle then cold water then boiling and so on and so forth. The result is very weak glass from the inside of the bottle and very strong from the outside.