Cesaral Bluetooth Invisible Key, by César Alonso

The Bluetooth Invisible Key is a felt tip marker that can be used to interact with any computer: PC, MAC, PDA, smart Phone, iPad, iPod, etc. The only requirement is that the remote device supports a Bluetooth keyboard; and nowadays most do.

The Invisible Key writes like a normal marker and can be refilled. It has 12 hidden buttons, located on one side of the pen in such a way that no one will figure out how you are controlling the remote device. The position of the buttons allows you to use the pen without even having to look at it.

The Bluetooth marker has several useful operation modes:

Mode 1: Used to send numbers such as “0”, “1”, “2” and so on. In this mode you can send any number with any amount of digits your remote device.

Mode 2: Used to remotely control keys such as “Page down”, “Page Up”, “Enter”, “Home”, “End”, “Print Screen”, up/down/right/left arrow keys. This mode is useful for example to control any type of presentation programs such as the Microsoft PowerPoint.

You can also use it to control Inject by Greg Rostami.

Mode 3: Used to send lottery numbers. Each lottery number has 2 digits and is placed in a separate line.

Mode 4: Used to send names of playing cards. Just by pressing 3 buttons the remote display will show the name of the playing card that you want.

Mode 5: Used to send names of well known objects to the remote device. An easy mnemonic code is used and makes it very easy to remember what button to press

Mode 6: Used to send names of tarot cards. Just by pressing 2 buttons the remote display will show the name of the Tarot card (mayor arcane cards) that you want.

Mode 7: Used to send names of personality traits to the remote device.

Mode 8: Used to send numbers from 1 to 99 but written with words. It is similar to mode 3 but uses text for the numbers.

Mode 9: Used to send the names of the ESP cards. In this case just the buttons from 1 to 5 are used.

Mode 10: Used to control the iPads puppet application developed by the great ventriloquist John Pizzi. In this mode the marker sends a different letter to the iPad, each time a button is pressed or released. The iPad application receives new keys according to the activity of the markers’s keyboard. In this mode different keys can be pressed at the same time and all of them will be taken into account. By pressing the different buttons, features of the puppet characters on the iPad can be remotely controlled. These include eye movement, mouth opening and closing, eyebrows moving and so on.

Mode 11: Used to send the any word to the remote device in a mobile-phone keyboard style.

Important points:

• Standalone product. Completely self contained.

• No assistant is required.

• Can be used by the magician himself, and nobody will realize that the secret is in the pen marker itself.

• Can be done anywhere, and even surrounded.

• Robust communications by Bluetooth link to devices such as: iPhone, iPad, iPod, PC, MAC, etc.

• Many operation modes and thus limitless magic possibilities.

• A single keypress can write a word or even a sentence in the paired device.

• You may order the product with a custom list of words.

• Really easy to learn and use.

Available for the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, Japanese. If you need another language support just let us know.

Possible effects:

Effect 1:

The magician opens the notepad application on his iPhone (or any other application in which you can type text). He tells the audience that he will make a prediction of a playing card on the notepad in his phone. The iPhone is then placed face down in the hand of an audience member. (The magician does not touch the iphone again). Any card is freely named by the audience member that is holding the phone, and immediately after naming the card, he is requested to turn the phone face up. His named card matches the card in the phone’s display.

The magician says that he will repeat it again. He types the name of another card in the phone and it is again placed faced down in the audience member’s hand. Now the audience member will pick any card from a poker deck. When this card is revealed, the phone is turned over and everybody will see that the prediction matches the selected card.

For the first part of the effect you may predict one or several cards. Imagine…

For the second part of this effect you can use products from Cesaral Magic such as Cesaral Open Perceptions, or Cesaral iPhone Perceptions. In this case the name of a face down selected card can be secretly obtained by the magician and then sent to the Iphone’s notepad with the marker. Now the selected card can be revealed by the spectator after the prediction is shown; making the effect even stronger.

Effect 2:

The magician opens the notepad on his mobile phone (or any other application in which you can type text). He asks an audience member to think about one or several of the mayor arcane Tarot cards, and he will attempt to read the audience members thoughts. The magician types his Tarot card prediction in the phone and places it face down in the audience member’s hand. The audience member reveals his thoughts (one or several of the Tarot cards). When he turns the phone over, the display matches the names of the thought of cards.

This same effect can be done with the ESP cards.

Effect 3:

The magician says that he will type a telephone number in his phone. He then places the phone face down in an audience member’s hand. The magician asks the audience member to name his or someone else’s phone number. When the audience member turns over the phone, both numbers match.

Some people know that the mobile phone or electronic device may have voice recognition software that could be used in the effect. So, you could say that for the last numbers the spectator can write them down on a piece of paper or make a gesture with their fingers to show the numbers…

As you can see, there is no limit of the number of uses for this new magic weapon.

Effect 4:

There are many effects on the market that can be automated with this marker, and produce very magical results. For example there is one that I personally like created by Haim Goldenberg which is named “Blow the candle”. This is a great trick for kids.

The effect is simple: from a PC you start this application and project it on a wall. The magician tells the kid to think of one of the candles and then take a straw and blow at the flame. As he does this the flame on the chosen candle goes out. Finally you tell him to waive the straw like a magic wand at the candle. After doing so, the flame reappears. You can repeat the effect as many times as you want.