Mind Bending Mobile
What the web site says:
This trick allows anyone in the audience using their own mobile phone to send an SMS text message to the magicians assistant who is not present. The assistant will amazingly send back a reply identifying the card previously chosen from a pack by the audience member. A typical message sent by the audience member will be something like "Harry Name my Card". The reply send back will be something like Harry says: You're card is the Queen of Hearts. The magician can choose the name of their own virtual assistant.
Review
£15 for 10 free goes and 10 trick goes (I can't see the difference here so its effectively 20 performances for the £15 up front cost.
then
10 top ups for £5
1 Easy
Not so much a trick, more of a card reveal method with added impact. The audience reactions I've had so far have been very favourable. Find a teenager in the audience with a mobile rather than using your own.
I first spin a yarn about just having taken up magic and I'm doing an MBA (Master of Black Arts) at the University of WOE (West of England). My tutor is called Alex and all the course material is sent to me by telepathy - adds new meaning to the term 'distance learning' and I'm now going to show how its done by getting Alex to read the spectator's card.
I use an ordinary deck with the Si Stebbins technique to find the spectator's chosen card and I have the gimmick concealed in my address book. Buy a small black address book from a stationers store. It then looks perfectly natural as you look up Alex's number, to get what you need.
Once you've signed up on the web site you can download the necessary gimmick. You can also access a web page to maintain various parameters. I had a couple of problems with the SMS service (no replies to my messages) just after I'd changed the parameters on this web page. Having got it all sorted out, and having gained confidence that the trick is now working properly again I now leave the web page well alone and everything has been fine since.
I always check before the start of the show, using my own mobile that the service is still functioning though, just to be sure (this doesn't cost anything apart from the normal cost of a text).
8 out of 10 Apart from a couple of minor technical niggles to start with, this is a great 'reveal' that you can adapt to suit your own presentation and with the right delivery makes a suitably impressive effect to a certain age of audience. Sure you need to top up, but hey its only 50p a shot.
Follow this link to find out more:
http://www.emagik.co.uk