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  • Cool trick. The circuit is at his feet though. Notice he never triggers three at one time.

  • 1,2,3,4

    3,2,1,4

    Repeat.

  • I think someone else is reconfiguring the wires (via banana plugs or something). This trick would have been awesome if he would held one of the light bulbs in his hand while switching it on and off :D

  • I know the solution!! Indeed VERY simple, but he made it look like magic... :p

    I'll give you a hint: take a look at THE SEQUENCE of turning the lights on...

  • @Badlookingk you didnt wach till the end.. did you?

  • @sjoerdbeukers Of course I did! The lights turn ALWAYS on from left to right, regardless of the lamp color. For example: at 0:58 you turn over the blue switch and the blue lamp illuminates... but if you had turn over the RED switch, the BLUE lamp would STILL be illuminated first... always from left to right... once every lamp is lit, the processor remembers the illumination sequence and now you can turn on the lamps in a random order... ;)

  • @sjoerdbeukers And when you turn off the 4th lamp lastly, you trigger a 5 second timer. When you do not turn on or off any lamp (for example when changing the color of the switches), the circuit resets...

  • simpler, feasible explanation : the switches (shown) have nuthin to do with the bulb, or that they are dummy switches and the actual switches may be controlled by foot or by an apprentice. it is just one way how we can do this, since the wirings arent clearly shown :)

  • This isn't "Rythm Of Love" this is "Madworld" Gary Jules

  • holiness it Hilo and feeble sone a rbi Light Bulbs fiber asel oiliness subtle 

  • ghey

  • someone else is switching the lamps off cam but you are in synch with the phantom switcher and so it looks as though you are controlling the lamps.

  • @dapez14 its a bit of wiring beneath it. just search on google and you will find the shem.

  • I feel REALLY DUMB, and I am pretty good with electronics....

    it's just not setting off any light bulbs in my head....grr

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  • i dont know how i did get here... i was watching a AVGN episode and now im here. WTF

  • the only this i can say is....WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!

  • smart bulbs i think somehow the colored caps syched with both the correct colored bulb and all the switches, and same thing if you switch it around for the bulbs situation or the switch's. i would like to explain my opinion but i dont want to over-do this comment.

  • I guess someone is changing the wires under the table as he fucus everyones attention to his hands and the colors... or maybe it was just real magic!!! =)

  • The switches on your board aren't hooked up to anything. You're likely operating the real switches with your feet or have an accomplice doing it for you. Nicely done though. :)

  • you turning the lights on with your feet?

  • Dude, that shite is c ool

  • took me 20 minutes to figure out, and now I feel pretty dumb. The switches/bulbs are both part of the same circuit, which has to be engaged in 1-2-3-4 order. After this is done, it remembers which switches engage which bulbs. If either a bulb or switch is removed, the circuit is reset and waits for the magician to re-engage in 1-2-3-4 order, after which switches can be pressed in any order.

  • @avsti It took me longer to figure it out and I felt the same way you did.

  • Haha, nice, I have this trick myself. It is great fun. Nice presentation!

  • I'm guessing four switches turned on and off by foot. I'm not too sure what kind of wireless signal would cause the the power source to light the bulbs though.

  • Cool, could it be just that there are 4 voltage rails? So each switch triggers one rail and the contacts on the bulbs or in the sockets are mated to the individual rails. That way the yellow switch only actives the yellow bulb. Not sure how you'd physically do this though, bet there's some clever bulb sockets you can buy or something..

  • um, is there someone else in this video swapping the circuits around of camera as you rearrange the bulbs and colored caps?

  • this a great vid. I remember went u put this vid out!

  • I think i just had an idea! no wait... 4 of them!

  • I bet there is another guy blowing him off while switching bulb lights for him.

  • easy wiring trick if you you know how electricity works. i drew a small schematic on multisim. , pretty clever... the trick is in the bulb's positive contact

  • current draw is detected by each switch, each bulb uses a different amount of current draw. In order of yellow green blue red.

  • i think its the way you flip the switch right? lol idk

  • Very enlightening.

  • no magic, no foot pedal, it's just called logical PROGRAMMING :):)

  • The bulbs are 3-way with separate filaments and the switches are 3 way switches. Moving the bulbs around changes the switching arrangement.

  • This video is a result of dividing by zero.

  • Well, my guess is that someone was sitting near you and reconnecting the wires while you were switching the light bulbs. good video anyways.

  • thats cool i think i might know how to do it but i dontt hink i could make it myself and i also dont want to be jerks and say " thats easy its just fake its rigged!" so awsome video

  • I think i know. The switches don't go to the colors. Someone else turns them on right when you flip the switch.

  • Whats the song

  • @RagingThunderstorm Gary Jules - Mad World

  • footswiches, nuff said the swithces on the bord got nuthin to do with the bulbs

  • lol is it even a connected circuit, like those are incandescent bulbs or they are just wireless switches to battery powered bulbs.

  • Song??

  • @Mw2iProKiller Gary Jules- Mad World

    originally covered by Tears for Fears

  • Did you just program the left switch to, for example, light the left bulb the first few times you turn it on, light the second left bulb the next time you turn it on etc...

  • found it!

  • well done man...You realy impress me !

  • easy trick but you made it look realy pro 12000 thumbs up

  • those are remotes and the chips are in the bulbs

  • are you EVER going to give it away?

  • Controlled by someone else behind the camera simple.

  • Thanks for bringing back this video my 3year old sons favorite

  • My guess is that the bulbs and switchs are all in one circit. There is some sort of device in the caps that makes the eletricty go to the assigned bulb.

    I mean, you never showed us the inside of the caps.

    Even if someone got it right you would still tell them they were wrong.

  • you are controlling it with the feet man!!!!wast of time......the magician of the feet ...lolhahaha

  • I'm thinking that each switch is connected to a set of horizontal metal bands on the inside of each socket. The screw of each lightbulb has something over it to only take electricity from a specific band. Each switch has a set of of possible connections that lead to the individual bands, which are completed by a metal piece inside the cap.

  • @GordonCSA Agreed this is a simple circuit the caps on the switch hide the circuit

  • lol BURN THE WITCH!!! jk

    That's really cool.  How?

  • The light switch is never in a on/complete circuit position without the color coded switch cap installed. The color coded cap is a intergal part of the color promoted ciruit this is not a trick

  • I concure

  • its way simpler then that.. but good guess

  • @jamesmaurer (foot pedal switches) *cough cough

  • @Brian891 Cough cough....um nope

  • @jamesmaurer the internal bulbs switches affect the outsides? idk

  • @jamesmaurer So how simple was it? also you mean smarter you are the dumber you feel.

  • @jamesmaurer You're operating the real switches with your feet.

  • @skonkfactory Nope that is not how the trick works

  • Hes a magician nuf' said

  • gotta suck when the filements brake haha

  • lol the color of the buld is the same.... nice but not hard to do..

  • He's a WITCH!! Very interesting; I don't know if this is supposed to be a trick or an engineering thing.

  • I think he has magic eyes.

  • wth? man, thats amasing!!

  • maybe foot switches under the table?

  • Those switches arent the ones that switch the bulbs on/off.

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  • its funny this video has been up for 3 years and your the first person to say that... I can tell you, your not right, but I think its interesting that your the first person to think that.

  • what did he say??? HE DELETED HIS POST!!!!!

  • @Kozzie13 why did they remove your comment?

  • Love it! Thanks.

  • how does he .....???????

  • i think the switch where the original light bulb was placed turns on the the light bullb like when he switch blue and red the red switch only lights up the red bulb and the blue switch only lights up the blue bulb

  • Easy, it has to do with wattage and current and voltage, the sockets and the swtiches are ALL connected, based on the light bulb's wattage the colored swtich plate allows only the certain amount of wattage and or voltage to travel to the designated bulb. And don't forget frequencies may play a role in this trick as well.

  • cool

  • I would thing that the switches and lamps are hooked up to some sort of controller (PLC or computer). You could do any thing in which the sequence of switched thrown could dictate which pumps would come on. Or there could be a simple program that is being executed, that any switch in any order would bring on the lamps.

  • oh i get it!! watch the order!

  • Oh, God people! There are obviously more than 4 lamp sockets. They're lined up behind each other so that we can't see them from the dead-on front, low-angle vantage point. It LOOKS like he's removing one lamp and installing another in it's place, but that's not the case.

  • wrong, look at other examples of the same trick shown from different angles

  • This particular board COULD work as I described, due to the lame vantage point. The plans for another board involves computer logic, rendering the thing completely useless for any practical application.

  • even if that were true, the camera angle would show off the extra sockets on tht end bulbs, but just hide the middle ones, look at the angle

  • You're assuming that they're arranged in parallel lines.

  • even if they werent, theres no way there is four sockets, each about an inch and ¼ thick, couldve been stacked behind each other...

  • Why not? If they're all the same size, you could hide any number of sockets behind the first one, as long as they're in a straight row pointing directly at the lens.

  • it just doesnt seem possible, given the dimentions in the video, like where the edge of the wood is etc.

  • Yea, you have a point. I don't think that's how it's done anyway though. I did a search and found some info. about a logic circuit for this same type of board. It would have been nice if they had chosen something other than a dead-on front view.

  • Ill tell you what... I will make a new video and shoot from multiple angles ... tell me what angles you want to see!

  • An elevated front 3/4 view would be nice, so that you can see every socket.

  • @jamesmaurer from the back and above

  • k thanks for understanding my point, didnt mean to sound like an ass!!

  • Never crossed my mind.

  • Notice the switches are always flipped intially in sequential bulb order. After any re-arrangement of bulbs or switch caps, the switches will be flipped in the left to right order of the bulbs, after which any switch in any order will turn on the correct color. There is a reset delay built in so the time involved in switching the caps/bulbs gives sufficient time for the circuit to reset then he flips them again in bulf order, left to right.

  • the switch is a remote control for the lightbulb with a battery in it LOL

  • I'm pretty sure I've worked out how it's done.

    I don't want to spoil the illusion for everyone, but I will just say pay attention to the order in which the bulbs are switched on.

  • nice...i believe you are roght...i was thinking the same thing

  • anyway it was nice for watching... and remember, when u do the trick u must redirect attention :)

  • the swtches aren't connected but its done pretty well

  • woah!! but but its impossible!!! great trick!

  • stupid

  • How the HELL is he doing that?

  • dats boring!! wu wud waste dare time at it

  • The Switches are not hooked up to the bulbs...The Actual Switches are hooked up to foot pedals that you can not see and thats the trick!

  • Haha. No it isnt that simple.

  • i agree with DBcash1973....thats the most logical reason.

  • im confused oh and HI!

  • wow thats really clever, dunno how you do it but its realli good and clever

  • Can I just say that my 2 year old son is obsessed with this videa! !He must watch it about 20 times per day! lol.

    He says to "put light bulbs on youtube daddy"!!

  • What was the name of that song u played in the video?

  • MAD WORLD

  • This blows my mind! i simply can't figure it out....

  • it looks like you bought it in a little magic kit the way everything matches.

  • wtf

  • Foot control pedal or some sort of hidden switching mechanism?

  • Foot control pedal

  • @helicoptered no or else ud see wires haning... and he has two feet, not four...

  • @epicmatrix101 Lol, something has to be hidden it's a trick right))) unless it's concealed batteries in the trick.. power has to come from somewhere...

  • @helicoptered no, just realy good wireing :D

  • @epicmatrix101 (_(_ *Moons* There's all sorts of crazy electronics / электроника random madness on the regular You Tube, I've seen seen some))) got to love those Kt66 tubes and ГМ-70 / GM70's ;)) at the moment my interest :)

  • @helicoptered o.o

  • fuck that shit

  • it's a preprogrammed sequence which just counts how many times he has flipped the switches ;)

    he just have to remember it correctly

    it still would have been cooler if he somehow had managed to put some id in the switch covers and light bulbs, and read that out to identify what switch, what lamp is on which position :/

  • Thats more complicated then it really is LOL

  • the light bulbs are connected to another board that he controls with his feet. BOOM!

    im smart

  • hahah sounds stupid but smart at the same time :P

  • Thanks! :D

  • Super cool.

  • switches are connected wirelessly to the lids/covers of each corresponding colors. OR switches are connected with the lids/covers and only respond to the lid/cover they are connected to.

  • electricity can be wireless? i've never heard of anything like that.

  • switches might be. not electricity. are you that dense? read it again.

  • Yes it can. Read about a guy called Tesla..

  • awesome magic switchboard....awesome song

  • the song is mad world

  • cool

  • cool

  • nice!

  • Telsa !

  • whats the song name i like it!

  • HAX!!!!

  • it might be radio frequency. each bulb got an electronic swich , and a quarts is hiden bot in the light bulb and the swich caps. when the reciver (lightbulb + socket) got the right freequency from the transmiter (swich) it turns on :) i have this on the paper but didnt build it. found it in an book

  • where do u get dat at i have 2 a experiment bout lightbulbs

  • dat was cool

  • i think its somehow wireless

  • I think its WIRELESS... XD lmao

  • tha caps, the trick is in the caps  :P

  • Let me guess... All the bulbs need a certain resistance to work. And every switch has that colored thing (cleverly disguised) as a resistor. The whole system has a flowing current, but without connecting the resistors by turning on the switch, the bulb doesn't light.

    It's A Long Shot.

  • well he also sets the caps next to the switch so

  • haha thats is the stupidist thing i have ever herd, those lights are BC bulbs, you would not get a battery small enough that could be hiddenin the base cap to power them, I agree with spoolinitup33 its loop wiring/switch, either that or like some 1 said there is a sepert panal with numbers (unlickly) but possible.

  • i wonder if the lamps have a battery inside & the switch caps act as some sort of radio transmitter to each lamp. i dont see any wiring under the board??? just a thought.

  • i think i know how it works

  • Jim, did you create this effect? It's beautiful.

  • what that song it good

  • gary jules - mad world

  • ....you know what i think .... it's a lot simpler than it looks .... there of corse might be ... behind each switch buttons labeled 1-4 and he could press the number to control what socket and therefore what bulb will turn on ..... :D

    my guess anyway ...

  • You all are soo wrong... its not a switch loop, hidden switches or different volts. Its somthing else....

  • Are ya'll joking??? Have you ever heard of a switch loop? Go take an electrical class and you'll understand what's going on here. You know in your house when theres two light switches that control one light bulb? Same concept.

  • i agree, however the switches would be in the opposite position if that was the case, he has something rigged in a similar way, probably a switch you dont see

  • wow! must be some hidden switches he is moving!

  • yeah its all wireing and different voltage and stuff you common folk wouldnt understand

  • rofl i feel like a stupid shit

  • how does it work?

    im dying to know.