Magic Trick Fails

Abra Ca-D'oh!-bra -- Magic Trick Fails Caught on Tape

Magic is just smoke and mirrors, they say. But sometimes it's also smoke and mirrors and fire and blood and sheer embarrassment. And maybe some dead rabbits in a top hat.


Because not every magic trick turns out as planned. Even so, the mucked up stunts can entertain and amaze just as much -- if not more so -- than the successful ones.

To wit: keep reading to watch magicians make their careers disappear with some of these hilarious trick fails.

In all fairness, we don't speak Spanish, so this magician could very well be saying, "For my next trick, I'm going to smash my hand into a knife and bleed all over the place."

"Duck to the future" pun = A+; "Duck to the future" trick = F \

The fact that this fail happened in 1973 and is still around to make us giggle? That is magic.

It's kind of hard to make out what's going on in this video, but when you see the magician's face catch fire, it's pretty clear that the trick went poorly.

As with fire, playing with gravity can hurt you, as well.

There are worse things than losing your head in the guillotine trick. And that's getting stuck in the guillotine, unable to escape from the magician's terrible jokes. (Fail starts at 3:35.)

Robot Dancer

On the last weekend in Tokyo, an exhibition of digital technologies "Digital Content Expo". Before the visitors of the exhibition in the company of four girl on the dancer made a female android HRP-4C. This robot was created as an electronic model for the demonstration of clothes on the catwalk, but eventually elektrodevushka sang, and now began to dance ...

Microsoft Courier Tablet PC First Impression

Microsoft Courier reappears with a series of first impressions, a beautiful photo gallery on the user interface. Microsoft Courier was expected at CES 2010 in Las Vega, it is big as a picture from 12.5 x 18 centimeters, much smaller and more compact than one might expect with a weight of just over one kg and a thickness less than 2.5 centimeters.

The internal interface of Microsoft Courier Tablet is not Windows 7, but a customized version that follows the trail of those Zune HD, Pink and future Windows Mobile 7 Series, based on Tegra 2. The screens will be touch screen but will also have the ability to recognize writing via stylus. There will be a webcam, audio jack and more connectivity Wifi phone. Will come to late autumn. Here is the first look.

Microsoft Courier Tablet PC Demo and Overview

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Colorful Pixelshow Fat Monkey

This awesome installation by Macaco Gordo was created for Pixelshow’s 2010 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Local students came together and arranged these “pixels” out of flip flops, the Brazilian icon and then named him Fat Monkey. Watch the video below to see how it came to life.