Video: Daito Manabe returns with magical dancing spoons

You remember Daito Manabe right, the man made Internet-famous by his human meat puppetry? Well Mr. Face Visualizer is back with another physical interpretation of sound and programming. His latest rig combines a magnet with a slider and myoelectric sensors (presumably attached to skin somewhere) found in modern bionic limbs to set a pair of spoons into an intricate dance of foolishness. Magic, no... just nerdy redefined.

[Thanks, Scott A.]

[NickNick @ Nov 6th 2008 9:28AM]

This will be useful in future.

[dark star @ Nov 6th 2008 9:54AM]

air Guitar Hero?

yes!!

[pavlindrom @ Nov 6th 2008 9:30AM]

actually, better than i thought it would be

[Kamokazi @ Nov 6th 2008 9:32AM]

To accomplish this you must realize the truth; there is no spoon.

[Podaman @ Nov 6th 2008 12:45PM]

Woah.

[Magnulus @ Nov 6th 2008 9:32AM]

I absolutely see this guy doing TEDtalks next year or the one after.
Such a creative (call it weird or eccentric if you like) flair with music. Love it.

[Mark @ Nov 6th 2008 9:32AM]

He's a witch! Burn him!!

[Adam Kantor @ Nov 6th 2008 9:46AM]

Big deal. Magneto has been doing this trick for years.

[Chad @ Nov 6th 2008 11:41AM]

This is stupid. It is a magic trick. He's using an extremely thin invisible line. Look at his other hand, the one he's not using to "move" the spoon. You can tell he's holding the line. All he's doing is hitting the invisible line. Why is this interesting?

[billedluh @ Nov 6th 2008 12:11PM]

you sir, are a moron. No. It's not a magic trick. It's a tech demo. And no he's not making the spoons move with a invisible line. He's making them move with magnets. Under the table. Controlled by myoelectric sensors. He said so. And then showed it to us at the end of the video. wtfv.

[Graham Wellington (formerly tyrone washington, or marsha goldberg) @ Nov 6th 2008 12:55PM]

i think he also has wiimotes in his sleeves and he's playing wii music

[gad get @ Nov 6th 2008 2:29PM]

NOOOOO! He lost his precious magic spoon in that useless machine!

[g3n3tix @ Nov 6th 2008 5:36PM]

I love the very end where the spoon falls down and he tries to get it as the machine still moves according to his hands.

[Garst @ Nov 6th 2008 11:15PM]

Anyone actually make it through the whole video? The ball is on a string attached to the cup. Sorry, the rerun of Family Guy where Lois find out she has a brother that I've seen numerous times distracted me.

[Bushka @ Nov 7th 2008 8:53AM]

ahh whatever! bet they cant make a toaster dance like the Ghostbusters did........

[kyoruikoo @ Nov 16th 2008 11:41PM]

He's wearing a thick jacket indoors for a reason.