Keith Barry: Brain magic

http://www.ted.com First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.

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[johnsclouds]

Glass trick is material science. I learned in smith apprenticeship the effect is similar to that of Prince Rupert's drop. The coke bottle is not a normal glass coke bottle. Rather its a bottle that wasn't annealed. It has tremendous amounts of stress on the interior from slower cooling than the outside. The outside is all stretched out from cooling faster it is VERY HARD, hard enough to hammer nails. If the side that is under stress is severed or scratched the whole structure implodes. Science.

[lmm9607]

started out great and interesting, then quickly did a 180 into a vaudeville act.

[Abdelaziz- A]

At 10:46 I can see that his Other leg is moving in the same way like the girl points .. so when she points up he move his other leg up and if the other leg is touching the Guy . then it's ... obvious ;) ^^ 

[BubbaTheFatt]

All these people getting mad at him, youve got to think. Hes not doing a magic show. Hes showing how easy it is to mystify the human mind if you arent trained to notice deception. I through repeated viewings figured out how he did all of his tricks, but who here can honestly say that they understood every single thing he did the first time they saw it? He tells us its all a trick right at the very beginning. Hes just showing how easy it can be with some extremely simple tricks.

[GraspAU]

This is not amazing, the main thing I noticed was when he was sitting at the table getting that "random personsî" hand to move he rubbed his foot on his leg to tell him to start

[SpriteBat]

So dumb. All he does is quickly rotate his left arm when the camera cuts to the audience at 1:02.

[MyFFfanatic]

Beginning: "The trick's on you!" CRAAAAACK

[Diana Tian]

Wow 15 minutes of my time wasted. These tricks are not at all sophiscated.

[Zilphon]

that beginning part was good. he diceived my mind. through a computer.

[tcoljeong]

I know right