At the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology, like drones ...

A Michigan magician tried to fool two of magic’s best with a trick involving a Kellogg’s cereal box. It’s a trick Michigan’s Jonathon LaChance says he spent five years perfecting before performing it ...

He was the most famous magician of the 20th century. Yet Harry Houdini’s peers were often scathing about him. His tricks were ...

Jesse Brodhagen couldn't have been older than 9 when he saw Tucson illusionist Michael Howell turn a balloon into a rabbit "He would blow up a balloon, put the balloon in the box and pop the box and a ...

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In a brightly coloured shipping container in east London, Rubens Filho is asking me to pick a card. “Any card,” he says, fanning the pack out face down. “And don’t worry, you can show me. That’s not ...

In the Rarities bar, a private lounge in a tucked-away corner of the Lotte New York Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue, Steve Cohen is adjusting his gold-button blazer and wire-rimmed glasses. As he peers ...

David Kotkin was a shy and somewhat awkward ten-year-old boy from Metuchen, New Jersey when he found himself rapt by a magic trick for the first time. His mother had taken him to Macy’s in Manhattan, ...

Cathalena E. Burch Aug 12, 2025 Aug 12, 2025 Updated Aug 13, 2025 Jesse Brodhagen couldn’t have been older than 9 when he saw Tucson illusionist Michael Howell turn a balloon into a rabbit “He would ...