Magic Card

-- Introductory price: $4.99! --

With this application you can perform an astonishing card trick using only your iPhone's camera and a standard deck of playing cards. It's easy to perform, and when done properly absolutely astonishes even the most jaded spectator. Have fun doing a trick that exploits the unique power of your iPhone in a clever way. Requires no sleight of hand skills!

(Note this is a very unconventional application, and doesn't have an interface we can show here without giving away secrets... We've instead included an example of how the screen might look while performing the trick).

--What the trick looks like--
Ask your spectator to cut a deck of cards into two piles of roughly equal height. You mark their place by putting the second pile sideways across the first (so that they resemble a + sign). Then, you explain that magic is a dying art and modern technology is making sleight of hand obsolete. For instance your iPhone can determine which card they have cut to without any help from you. You demonstrate by peeling off their card while observing, "You could have cut the deck anywhere, but you picked this card." Place the card face down in the middle of a table and use your iPhone to snap a picture of the unknown card from directly overhead (if you wish, have the spectator place their watch or jewelry beside the card to prove the picture wasn't taken in advance). Turn the phone directly towards the spectator to show the photo, "I know, you've seen cell phone cameras before but watch what this one can do!" Begin slowly waving the phone in front of the spectator with the screen towards him, gradually increasing the speed of your shaking until the photo changes before their eyes to appear as if the card had been face up when you took the image! You look at the screen yourself and read the card, "Hmm... looks like you cut to the... Queen of Hearts." (or another card if that's what it shows) Gesture for the spectator to flip over the card as confirmation!