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For the past few years I have been hearing about Nick Diffatte as being the future of comedy magic.

Sum It Up is just beautiful and made of Maple and Oak woods with clear Plexiglass windows.

Of Jerry Andrus' many creations, the one routine I saw him perform the most, was his Two Card Trick (which wasn’t really a card trick).

I saw Max Maven do his now famous Pocket Nightmare routine was in the 1980s during one of the New York Symposiums. He fooled everyone in the room and it eventually became his trademark routine.

Of my many releases in recent years, my favorite to perform is Gene Maze’s Catch Me & Win. It makes sense since I have been doing versions of it for most of my life.

As you may also remember from previous years I am often in contact with some of the dealers and at the end of the convention they hand over their leftovers to Mike Miller who generously carries them across the world, I then make a 180 mile round-trip to Pennsylvania and have lunch with him where I also get tipped off on the latest trends.

I have noticed over the years that there are two hidden methods that fool me more that any other. Thread and math.

This weekend I picked up a carload of Joker Magic products. Of the more than 50 different items, many of them are difficult to find in the US.

Since we had a lot of free time together, we started to discuss the machinery he has at his workshop and the products he could produce made out of wood, plastic, and other similar materials.

Higar patented his discovery and this is one of the few times, in my lifetime, that the adage by Arthur C. Clarke is true, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”