Apple often uses the word “magical” to describe the iPad. That’s usually dismissed as hyperbole, but watch this magician’s appearance on Ellen, and you might change your mind: He’s able to pull actual objects from his iPad’s screen!
The magician you’re seeing is Simon Pierro, a German trickster who has made a name for himself doing various magic tricks with an iPad or iPhone as a prop. His tricks are half sleight-of-hand, half animation. Although in the grand scheme of stage musicians he’s not an all-time great sleight-of-hand-artist, Pierro’s elegant and entertaining use of the iPad makes his tricks seem as if they cross over between the physical and digital worlds.
If you’ve never seen Pierro’s work before, his appearance on Ellen is a good primer to his work. If you like his tricks, check out his website, which is filled with other videos of his work.
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
6 responses to “German magician turns an iPad into one big magic trick”
Pretty good
This bums me out so bad. David Blaine is rolling over in his plexiglass coffin if this is what we call a “magician” now adays. All this is done by timeing his “act” with some two bit app and easily noticed slight of hand… Sad.
Is that an iPad Mini or full size iPad?
Full size.
iPad Air
Since it was done live and there’s no monitors, I guarantee it wasn’t green screen.