In this video I am going to teach you 10 amazing magic tricks that you can do with your hands. I'll teach you how to remove ...

The ability to occlude the thumb is the key to the magic trick, so the thumb must be opposable. Garcia-Pelegrain and colleagues replaced the coin with morsels of food: ...

Psychologists used a sleight-of-hand trick called the French drop, in which an object appears to vanish when a spectator assumes it is taken from one hand by the hidden thumb of the other hand ...

The magic trick requires an opposable thumb, and the idea here was to test “whether having the manual capability to produce an action, such as holding an item between finger and thumb, ...

This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick. How a Popular Science tutorial for building a ‘spiritphone’ tuned into the hype of the Golden Age of Magic.