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Inject
Video Tutorials
This manual can be found at
http://rostami-inject.appspot.com/manual/
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••• PLEASE READ •••
••• VERY IMPORTANT •••
The TV performance rights are reserved by Rostami Magic.
If you'd like to perform Inject on TV please email Greg at:
grostami@gmail.com
You are welcome to perform Inject in your live performances.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's learn Inject.
With Inject you can write or “Inject” a thought into the minds of your spectators!
You can Inject an image, web search, map location, YouTube video, music and
just about anything else you can find online.
“I did an image search of a planet … I’ll try to INJECT this image into your
mind!”
Gently touch their forehead.
In this group we will be discussing many tips, tricks and routines that will help you
master Inject.
For example, if you want to learn how to perform the "Actors" effect, read
"Performing Actors".
The Secret
By entering your custom receiver URL (web address) in the address bar of any
web browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc.), you will be converting your
spectator’s device (smart phone, computer, tablet, etc) into a RECEIVER.
The main receiver is used for effects where you are doing a web search (word,
image, map, video).
There are other receivers that are used for effects like Houdini, LOVE Colors or
web albums (more on that later).
If you perform alone, you will be transmitting by swiping the screen of your smart
phone in your pocket.
You can also use a small bluetooth keyboard (like the AIRTURN DIGIT II) to
transmit the four arrow keys.
If you perform with an accomplice (wife, friend, etc.), they will be transmitting
from THEIR web browser on their device. They don’t need any special apps to
help you.
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***PLEASE READ***
On the iPhone, your iPhone will only vibrate if both
"Vibrate on Ring" and "Vibrate on Silent" are ON.
To do this, launch your iPhone's Settings, touch "Sounds",
turn both "Vibrate on Ring" and "Vibrate on Silent" to "ON".
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New Features For INJECT 2.0
Inject 2.0 (i2) is essentially a brand new app built from the ground up. It has all the
features, presets and functions of Inject but also adds many new features.
Sort Presets: Notice the Blue Circle on the bottom left of Presets Screen, that has
a tiny notepad. This is Edit Mode. Edit Mode will let you rearrange your presets in
any way you like. When you are in Edit Mode tap on the 3 bars on the right of each
preset, drag and drop them in any order you want. When finished editing tap on the
green check circle or green "Done Editing" bar.
Spell Notifications: Spells the thumped notification just in case it was hard to hear
or you have a noisy environment. This is also great for homophone words like son
and sun. You can have both Audio & Spell Notifications on at the same time.
Pair Mode: This is one of the most exciting new features of Inject 2.0. Pair Mode
Monitoring allows for you to pair with someone else's phone without you
borrowing or even touching their phone.
You might be thinking how exactly could that work? Well the first thing is you tell
the spectator is to go the most famous image site in the
world, googleimg.com There is no user id or other telling
information. Googleimg.com looks and acts exactly like images.google.com. And
unlike Google this images page never changes with holidays, seasons or special
events. The spectator can continue to go back to googleimg.com and search for
images until their heart's content.
First, you have your spectator go to googleimg.com and you are linked to them
and can monitor whatever they type in the search bar one time, for up to 3
minutes.
How this works: You have your spectator go to googleimg.com and then once they
do, swipe once on the on the Monitoring Page of your Inject App. You will get a
notification of PAIRED or NOT PAIRED. If your notification says NOT
PAIRED and another magician is performing using pair mode at the exact same
time, well we have an answer for that too, KEYWORDS.
Inject will tell you if googleimg.com (pair mode) is already being used by another
user and will automatically tell you to use one of your personally chosen keywords
in the performance. So you just slightly alter your performance by having the
spectator include that keyword in their search. For example Inject might tell you to
use the keyword "RED" So you say something like "I'd like for you to make the
image extra unique by adding a color, let's say red, I want you to search for
anything in the world but add the color red" So the spectator searches for a Red
Taco and you have them concentrate on one of the images and you can reveal that
they had typed Red Taco etc. You can choose multiple keywords just in case there
are two users using the exact same keyword at the exact same time. So if someone
is using the same keyword at the exact same time then Inject will move down your
list and tell you which keywords are not available to use. The keyword can also be
anywhere in the search bar it does not have to be the first word. You can have up to
10 keywords. Chances are pretty high that you won't have to use a keyword at all
and that you will be able to pair with your spectators directly. But remember to be
fair to all users the pairing only lasts 3 minutes. So plan your performances
accordingly.
Push Notification: With Push Notifications, you don't have to have Inject running
to receive notifications of your spectator's thumps. You can borrow a spectator's
phone and type in your googled.co/userid and when they search for something it
will push a notification to your phone and smartwatch. As long as your copy of
Inject is installed on your phone, push notifications will work.
Push Notifications also work with Apple Watch without having to turn off Wrist-
Detection.
Please note: Push notifications only work when you type your URL in the address
of your spectator's device. This will not work with the new auto pairing feature.
Delayed Thump Receptions: you can now turn on an Inject receiver after a
THUMP has been transmitted.
If you type googled.co/userID and then add a ! (exclamation point) and then tap
on images you will get the previously thumped information. (googled.co/userID!)
This means you can receive the information after someone has searched for it. The
magicians phone can be dead or off.
The Three Pairing modes of Inject:
When you need to secretly receive information from your spectator's device, you
need to pair a website to your phone.
We'll now highlight how you'll use the three pairing modes with these performance
examples:
URL Pairing:
Prepare Inject by opening the app and going to "Settings" and then touch the
"Web" tab.
Under "Default Search Text" type the word "define". The " " is a space character.
Performance:
"Will you please open any browser on your phone and go to Google.com". Your
spectator goes to google.com on their phone.
"Let me show you a handy feature in Google ..." You take their phone for a
moment.
Tap the search field in Google as if you are going to type something there. Now tilt
their phone slowly away from them so that they can't see exactly what you're
typing ... don't try TOO hard to hide the face of their phone. You don't want to
raise any suspicion.
"Did you know that if you type 'define' followed by a word, Google will show you
the definition of your word".
As you pretend to type "define" you secretly type the address of your URL in their
address bar.
As you type "googled.co/10", you are slowly saying "deee ... fiiine" stretching your
vowels as if your typing "define".
Now hit enter ... make sure you touch enter softly so that you don't raise suspicion
about typing in a URL.
Your fake google page will now appear on their phone with the word "define"
already in the search field.
Tap the search field again as you tilt their phone back around to face them.
If you're a good actor, they should think that you simply typed "define" in their
google.com
Now, whatever they type in the search field and hit enter will be transmitted to
your phone (either in the new push notification or in Inject's "Monitor" mode).
The only drawback to this pairing mode is you must touch their phone to perform.
Auto Pairing:
In Inject 2.0 you can now pair with a spectator's phone even if you never touch it.
Red,bad,mad,big
Please make sure these words are easy to spell. We'll see how to use these words in
a moment.
On the main Inject screen, touch "Monitor" to go to the "Monitoring" page, and
place your phone face up in your pocket.
Tell your spectator: "The world's most popular image search site is
googleimg.com". "The fastest way of getting their is to type "googleimg.com" in
your address bar". Be sure to spell "img" for them so they don't type the word
"image".
When they say yes, wait a beat and swipe the face of your phone in your pocket.
You have 10 seconds after the page opens on their phone to swipe your screen. If
you fail to swipe in time, then you will not pair with their phone and you must ask
them to refresh the page.
Most of the time, your spectator is the only one in the world that is at
googleimg.com. Inject will now vibrate once and display (and say) "Paired". It will
also display paired on your smartwatch as a notification.
With a clean pair, you can perform without worrying about anyone else in the
world interfering with your performance.
Once you have made a clean pair with your spectator, you and your spectator are
CONNECTED.
If another magician now wants to perform Inject, they will also get a clean pair
since your connection to YOUR spectator is already established ... it's impossible
for anyone else to interfere with your connection.
Keywords Pair:
If your spectator is NOT the only person in the world at googleimg.com (or
another magician is performing Inject at the exact same time), Inject will vibrate
twice and display "KEYWORDS".
In Inject Settings, under the "App" tab you'll type a set of words, separated by
commas that you would like to use to describe the objects your spectator should
search for.
Most of the time these words will be adjectives (like sad, mad, etc).
Let's say one of your keywords is "green".
Since you have felt two vibrations you must first look at your smartwatch or your
phone, to see which of your keywords are not available.
If you just see "KEYWORDS" then all of your keywords are available.
Your spectator now does a search for anything that has "green" in it.
Regardless of how many people are on the site, Inject will now filter the search
that has the word "green" in it and thump it to you.
Inject also checks to see if another magician is using the same keyword and shows
you the words that you can't use from your list.
Hence, as long as you know a small set of keywords, you're always ready to get
perfect thumps using AUTO PAIR.
Introduction
When you first launch Inject, you'll see the Welcome screen.
On this page you’ll find the “Manual” button in the upper right corner that will
allow you to read this manual.
To register your account, please enter your email address and create a password
(and confirm password) and touch "Register" to start.
If you’ve already registered in the past, then you can enter your email and
password to log into your account.
Once you register your account, you'll see the main Inject screen.
Inject Screen
This is the main Inject screen where you’ll create presets and choose which effect
you want to perform.
To proceed with this manual, you must use any web connected device (smart
phone, tablet, computer, etc) other than your smart phone. This is so that you can
use this other device as a receiver.
If you can't access another web connected device, then you cannot proceed.
Receiver URL:
The URL (web address) listed at the top, is the main URL that you’ll be typing into
your spectator’s web browser to convert it into a receiver (sometimes a transmitter
... more on that later).
11z.co/x
When you enter your receiver URL in the address bar of any browser, you’ll see a
fake web search screen.
At the top of this screen you can select Web, Images, Maps and YouTube.
Web (Default) - any text that’s received will be used for a generic web search.
Images - any text that’s received will be used for an image search.
Maps - any text that’s received will be used for a search in Google Maps.
Thump Monitor:
The Thump Monitor button allows your device to receive transmissions that are
coming from the spectator's device.
When the Thump Monitor is activated, when you receive a transmission, your
device will vibrate and the screen will display whatever your spectator had typed
into the fake web search on their device. (more on that in the Performing
Dictionary Effect).
If you have a smartwatch, the transmission will also be displayed on the screen of
your smartwatch.
Quick Start Guide
Make sure you are in an area that has internet access.
If you try to perform with no internet or bad (slow) internet, the trick will not
work.
Type your unique Receiver URL in the address bar of your other device
(spectator’s device).
On the receiver device you will see a fake Web Search screen.
On this screen you can decide what type of a receiver you’d like.
For this example, touch “Images” to make this receiver show images.
Back on your device, on the main Inject screen, touch the “Basic (Transmitter)”
bar.
Please don’t touch the edit button to the right of the button (that button is for
editing your preset).
On the Basic (Transmitter) screen type the word “dog” and either hit enter (or Go)
or you can touch the “THUMP” button.
At the top of the transmitter page, you’ll see feedback that shows your thump has
been transmitted and received.
You’ll also feel one vibration that indicates the thump has been sent and another
vibration that indicates your thump has been received.
On some browsers, you may notice that your browser will auto fill lots of random
numbers at the end of what you've typed:
Make sure to just enter your unique address WITHOUT all of the extra random
numbers at the end.
Menu Button
The menu button in the upper right corner allows you to access Settings and read
this manual.
Inject Settings
On this page you can see your account email, User ID and app version number.
If Web Thumpers is off, then no one can use a web browser to transmit. You are
the only one that can transmit from within the Inject app.
On the main Inject screen, you'll now see "web thumpers disabled" below each
transmitter's name.
Local Notifications toggles your devices push notifications that gives you
feedback on a smartwatch as a notification.
Please note ... due to a limitation with iOS, the current version of Inject will not
transmit Local Notifications to the Apple Watch.
This is a known issue that will be addressed in the next release.
All other smartwatches (such as the Pebble) will work fine. Make sure that the
settings of your smartwatch will display local notifications from the Inject App.
Covert Swipe Thumpers toggles a black screen when you use your swipe
transmitters.
When you turn this on, you'll be able to leave your smartphone out in the open with
Inject covertly running in the background.
Because of the black screen, your smartphone will look like it's off.
The covert black screen is also a great way to save battery life.
To exit the black covert swipe screen, double tap the upper left hand corner of your
screen.
Localize Website:
On this page, you can customize what words appear on your fake web search
screen.
You can change the text to any language, as well as replace the Image that's used in
your fake web search screen.
When you type your Receiver URL in the address bar, you'll see that there's a long
number added to the end of what you just typed:
11z.co/7-1446750010660
If you type your Receiver URL without adding a "-" (dash), then Inject will
automatically create a random table number for you.
If you type your Receiver URL and then add a "-" (dash) and a number to the end,
then you can assign a unique table number to your receiver.
When you perform Inject, you are typing your secret Receiver URL in a spectator's
device (phone).
After your performance, if your spectator was to touch the back button, they will
not find your secret URL.
If your spectator was to look at the history of their browser (iOS only) they will not
find any evidence of your secret URL.
If you perform on an Android device (or other) you can always open a new private
browsing tab to ensure that your secret URL will not be discovered.
Preset Thumpers
Big part of the main Inject screen is the list of preset Thumpers.
Inject comes with several different effects that you can use immediately to
perform.
Basic (Transmitter)
Your accomplice can use this thumper to secretly transmit any word to the
receiver.
You can also use this thumper to transmit any URL.
Your accomplice can either use your (magician's) device to transmit, or they can
use their own device by simply typing the URL that’s listed there.
This is an example of a simple swipe transmitter that you can use from your
pocket, without an accomplice.
Swipe Transmitter
A swipe transmitter allows you to swipe in four directions (up, right, down, left)
starting from anywhere on the screen.
You can create as many items as you like on a list that can use any combination of
these four directions.
PLEASE NOTE - After every swipe gesture, you must lift your finger off the
screen.
In the planets transmitter, the first four planets of our solar system are in clockwise
order, starting from a swipe up.
Swipe up - Mercury
Swipe right - Venus
Swipe down - Earth
Swipe left - Mars
And finally:
Swipe up & down - Pluto
Every time you perform a series of swipe gestures, Inject will give you feedback at
the top of the screen that indicates which item matches your swipe gestures.
This way you can practice your swipe gestures without having a receiver
displaying your outcome.
Inject will then wait 2.0 seconds (default setting) before the signal is transmitted.
If you perform the wrong swipe gestures, you can simply make a few random
swipes that has no meaning, wait about 2.0 seconds, and then try your swipe
gestures again.
Please note … once a swipe gesture has been transmitted, it can’t be stopped or
undone.
Borrow a phone from a spectator and ask them to launch their web browser.
11z.co/x
Hence, what I type into the address bar of their browser is:
11z.co/7
When the website opens, touch “Images” to make this an image receiver.
Put their phone face down on a table ...
"I did a search for my favorite planet. That’s the last time I’ll touch your phone”.
Place your hand in your pocket, with your index finger hovering above the middle
of the screen and your other fingers holding the sides of your phone (if there’s
room in your pocket, you can also swipe with your thumb).
While you are saying that your index finger swipes up twice on your screen in your
pocket.
After the default 2.0 second delay, Inject will transmit your thump to your
spectator's device.
You will now feel one vibration that indicates you sent the thump and another that
indicates the thump was received.
They will pick up their phone to discover that you had done an image search for
“Jupiter” on THEIR phone!!
Add Thumper
When you touch “Add Thumper” you can create your own custom transmitters or
receivers.
There are currently six thumper types, four Transmitter, two Receivers and MANY
Effects.
The new Add Effects option in Inject allows you to add presets that will allow you
to perform new effects.
Some Effects will add only a transmitter, while other effects will add both
transmitters and receivers to your list of presets.
The list of Effects is constantly updated by Rostami Magic online ... if we come up
with a new effect, we can instantly add that effect to your Effects list.
Feel free to use these effects as templates for creating your own unique effects.
For example, if you want to create a new card effect, you can start by adding
Houdini Images and then simply replacing the URLs for the images of Houdini
with your own customized image URLs.
Basic (Transmitter)
We’ve already used this thumper above to send any text to the receiver.
Most of the time your accomplice will be using this thumper to transmit either a
value or a template.
You can also use this thumper type to transmit any URL.
When you select the “Basic” transmitter, you’ll notice buttons that allow you to
save, trash or go back to the previous screen.
PLEASE NOTE - You must always save your preset (the disk icon in the
upper right) for your changes to be saved. If you don’t save, all of your work
will be lost. Be CAREFUL!!
Under “Thumper Name” you’ll type any name that you’d like to give to this preset.
Thumper Identifier
Under "Thumper Identifier" you can customize the ending of the URL of this
preset. By default the thumper identifier is a number, but you can change it to
anything.
For example, if your Thumper Identifier is "1" then the URL for this preset is:
11z.co/7/1
The "7" is your user number and the "1" is your thumper identifier.
If you change your thumper identifier to "send" then your preset URL will be:
11z.co/7/send
Thump Type
Under “Thump Type” you can select either “Simple Value” or “Template”.
Simple Value
This thump type is simply any text that you type in.
The receiver determines what type of search the text will display.
If your receiver is “Web”, a generic web search for “Egypt” will be displayed.
If your receiver is “Maps” the browser will use Google Maps to display “Egypt”.
Template
The template thump type replaces your text with a wild card value under Template.
For example, let’s say you want to create an effect where you can predict a
YouTube channel your spectator will select.
https://www.youtube.com/user/--value--
The “--value--” above is a placeholder for where your text would be inserted.
And your receiver would display the famous PSY YouTube channel.
It was designed to be used from your pocket where you can’t see the screen of your
device.
When you select “Swipe” you can name your preset, trash it, save it and change the
thumper type.
You can also use the “+” button to create new items on your swipe list.
You can have as many items as you like. Each item will contain the value that will
be transmitted along with the swipe gestures that will transmit that value.
Feel free to create multiple swipe gestures for the same value.
For example, let’s say a left then right swipe transmits “flower”.
During the stress of performance you might forget it’s left then right.
To alleviate this problem, simply create another item on the list for “flower” but
this time the swipe gesture is right then left.
If you forget left and right or right and left, both options will transmit “flower”.
Matching period
Dictates how long Inject will wait after you’re done with your swipe gestures
before it transmits the signal. The default is 2.0 seconds.
The List Thumper gives you a list of up to 100 items on a list that can be
transmitted by simply touching that item on the list.
You can name your preset, trash it, save it and change the thumper type.
Each Item on the list has an input field for the Value of the item along with the
Label on the list.
The cards thumper was designed to allow you or your accomplice to quickly select
any one of the 53 cards in a deck to thump a particular value.
There are two default effects that use the cards thumper … Houdini Cards and
YouTube Cards.
Like the other thumpers above, you can name your preset, trash it, save it and
change the thumper type.
Under each card, you can type the value that will be transmitted.
Image (Receiver)
The “Image Receiver” is a special kind of receiver that allows different images to
be continuously thumped to it.
When you want to perform with the “Image Receiver” you must type the URL
listed under that image receiver in your spectator’s device.
Initial Image URL is a URL or a web address to the base image that you want to
be displayed when you first visit the image receiver URL.
In the Houdini effect, the Initial Image URL is a photo of Houdini where there are
no cards displayed in his eyes (a starting image).
Sticky
When Sticky is ON, the URL remembers the last image that was transmitted to it.
For example, the Houdini effect remembers the last card that was transmitted to it.
Hence, the next time you visit the URL for the Houdini effect it displays the card
that was selected from the previous performance.
When Sticky is OFF, the URL will always start by displaying the Initial Image
URL.
Like the image receiver above, the web album is a receiver thumper that allows
you to have an album of images that your spectator can swipe through.
The purpose of this thumper is to give you a way of making your spectator into a
mind reader.
You can also use this receiver as a way of forcing images on your spectators (more
on that under Performing Web Album).
Here's a little secret about Inject ... when you type a web album URL in a
spectator's device, give it a manual table number.
For example, for the ESP Album type:
11z.co/7/12-1
Now, touch the ESP (Receiver) in Inject and input the table number you used (in
this example it's 1).
You will now see on your screen whatever your spectator is looking at on their
device.
In Inject touch the ESP Swipe (Transmitter) and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
On your spectator’s device you will type the URL for your ESP (Receiver).
In their browser you’ll now see an image album that has all of the five ESP
symbols in it.
“I think you can read my mind and tell me which symbol I’m thinking of”.
Take their phone and swipe through the images and stop on whichever symbol you
want.
Place their phone face down in front of them as you say.
“Concentrate on my thoughts … which symbol am I thinking of”?
Put your hand in your pocket, like the swipe planets effect from above.
They will now see that indeed you were thinking of the square!?
In Inject touch the Web Album Swipe (Trans) and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
On your spectator’s device have them type the URL for the Web Album
(Receiver).
In their browser they will now see an album that has 100 random photos in it.
“You're going to randomly select a photo. Hold your phone face down and
randomly swipe forwards and backwards through the photos”.
"Stop wherever you like".
The moment you notice them stop swiping you are going to do one of four swipes
in your pocket.
For this example let's say you swiped up (man with umbrella).
"Please look at the "random" photo that you just stopped at. Make sure no one else
sees that photo".
"It's very hard to see ... I see a black and white photo of a man ... it looks like he's
struggling with an umbrella"!!
If you want to do the trick again, you'll simply swipe a different direction from
your pocket to reveal other photos.
“I’m so excited about this name I want to make sure someone else isn’t using it.
Do you mind if I use your phone to do a quick search?”
“I’ll give you a hint, the first word is an adjective … Name any adjective.”
Your spectator says “Frozen!”
“WOW, that’s amazing …”
You now go to another spectator … “May I please use your phone to look up an
image.”
You borrow another spectator’s phone.
You do an image search of a planet, and leave their phone face down.
“I will now inject the image that I saw into your mind! Name any planet in our
solar system.”
She says “Venus”.
“That’s CORRECT!! … you could have named any planet, and she could have
named any adjective … please look at your phones.”
When the 2nd spectator looks at her phone, she sees an image search for “Venus”
…
When the 1st spectator looks at her phone, she sees a web search for “Frozen
Venus”!!!
In Inject, touch the “Planets Swipe (Transmitter)” and put your phone in your
pocket face up.
Touch the word "YouTube" at the top bar until it changes to "videos".
Leave their phone face down.
Touch the word "YouTube" at the top bar until it changes to "videos".
Touch “Images” at the top to make it an image receiver.
Type in the adjective that the first spectator had said (Frozen) and touch the search
magnifying glass to the right.
Leave their phone face down.
Put your hand in your pocket and wait for them to name any planet.
When she says “Venus” you will do a swipe to the right and wait for the
confirmation vibration codes.
The 2nd spectator will now see an image search for “Venus”!
The 1st spectator will see a web search for “Frozen Venus”!!
You can use the One-Ahead thumper on as many devices as you like … there’s NO
limit to how many devices can be used in this one-ahead routine.
The reason why I call this "Lazy Inject" is because you don't have to do anything.
Your spectator is going to be doing all the work for you (but they don't know it). ;-
)
In this mode, whatever you enter into the search field will display a Google search
on the spectator's phone while transmitting the typed word to a receiver.
Read the Lazy Inject Performance below to see how you can use this ingenious
mode ...
Videos
If you see "Videos" in the upper right-hand corner, then your receiver will combine
(concatenate) all of your inputs.
Everything that you input into the one ahead system will be concatenated (or
combined) on the 1st spectator’s device.
Video
If you touch “Videos” once, it will change to "Video" which means it will NOT
combine all of the inputs.
Hence, from the above example, your 1st spectator will simply see “Frozen”.
"I'm going to take a mental snapshot of this animal and later INJECT in into your
mind"! ... leave their phone face down.
"I'm going to go to Google.com on your phone ... when I give you your phone,
search for an animal".
"Type in any animal that pops in your mind and IMMEDIATELY hit enter. Make
sure no one sees what you've typed".
Spectator #2 thinks they are typing something in Google.
HINT: When you touch the search field, a keyboard will appear.
Slightly scroll the page up so that the 11z.co address on the address bar gets
smaller.
On the iPhone, you can also tilt the phone on its side (landscape) which will
hide the address bar on the top.
Spectator #2 will now see a Google search for their animal on their phone.
What they don't know is they just thumped spectator #1's phone with the animal
they just typed in.
"Is there any way that I could have known which animal you just searched for"?
They will answer "No" ...
"Look at his phone". Gesture to spectator #1's phone and have him turn it over to
discover your image search of THEIR animal!!
What's great about this routine is that YOU don't know what they've typed in ... but
you pretend that you did know.
In Inject, touch the "Thump Monitor" button at the top of the main Inject screen
and put your device in your pocket with the screen facing your body.
"I memorized the Dictionary ... there are over 1 million words in the English
dictionary and I memorized the definitions of all of them".
"There was a time that I would carry a big dictionary with me, but now I can look
up words online".
"Did you know that if type the word "define" followed by any word in a web
search, it will show you the dictionary definition".
As you say this, you pretend to type the word "define", but in reality you'll type
your receiver URL in their address bar:
11z.co/7
Once your fake web search screen appears, quickly type "define" followed by a
space in the search field.
"Think of any word and type it here after the word "define" and touch "search"...
It'll show you the definition".
You now turn away from your spectators with your hand in your pocket holding
your device.
After they are done typing, you'll feel your phone vibrate. Quickly pull your phone
slightly out of your pocket and read the top line of the display.
On the spectator's device, they will now see a definition of their word.
"Please read a few words from the definition, but please leave out any word that
would give it away ... I'll try to guess your word".
Your spectator will now read a few random words from the definition.
Do your best job acting like you struggling with the word and slowly reveal the
word that they are thinking of!!
If you have a smartwatch, you can use it to peak at what your spectators have
typed.
Creating More Swipe Gestures
So far, we’ve used simple swipe gestures to input a few variables (planets are only
9 variables).
Here are two other systems that can help you input more variables.
20 Variables
Here’s a simple system that I’ve devised that allows you to easily input many
variables with a few swipe gestures.
For 6 to 10:
→↑ = 6
→↑↑ = 7
→↑↑↑ = 8
→↑↑↑↑ = 9
→↑↑↑↑↑ = 10
Notice how the → (right swipe) is like a 5 +.
Hence, you can think of 6 as 5+1 .
For 11 to 15:
↓↑ = 11
↓↑↑ = 12
↓↑↑↑ = 13
↓↑↑↑↑ = 14
↓↑↑↑↑↑ = 15
Notice how the ↓ (down arrow) is like a 10 +.
Hence, you can think of 12 as 10+2 .
If you think of the four swipes as a base 4 numbering system, you’ll quickly realize
that with only TWO swipes you can enter 20 items … With THREE swipes you
can enter 64 ITEMS!!
The only problem is it’s very difficult to memorize those directions (or to even do
the math to convert from our base 10 system to a base 4).
If you perform tricks where there’s a written list of items, you can always number
that list like this (City Swipe (Transmitter)):
Here are the graphic files that we've created for the above lists that you are
welcome to download and print.
http://333pics.com/cities.jpg
http://333pics.com/actors.jpg
http://333pics.com/apps.jpg
For this effect you'll need to print out the Cities picture or you can write it down on
a piece of paper.
http://333pics.com/cities.jpg
In Inject touch the City Swipe (Transmit) and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
Show the spectator the area at the top where you can enter the name of any city.
Bring out the piece of paper with the above cities written on them.
“Look over these cities while I do a search for one of those cities on your phone.”
Take their phone from them and enter your receiver URL in the address bar.
11z.co/7
“Please point to any one of these 20 cities, but please don’t say a word.”
Let’s say they point at “Rome”. To you that’s not Rome … it’s item 12.
“WOW!”
As you say that, you’ll do a swipe up and right (12) in your pocket.
In Inject, touch the Actors Swipe (Transmitter) and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
Bring out the piece of paper with the actors written on them.
“Please think of one of these actors while I do a search for one of them on your
phone.”
Take their phone from them and enter your receiver URL in the address bar.
11z.co/7
Let’s say they point at “Kate Winslet”. To you that’s not "Kate Winslet" … it’s
item 33.
“WOW!”
As you say that, you’ll do two swipes down (33) in your pocket.
For this effect you'll need to print out the apps picture on a piece of paper.
http://333pics.com/apps.jpg
When you look at the Apps graphic (from above), you should think of the rows as
0 to 4 and the columns as 1 to 4.
If someone selects any one of the apps in the top row, you simply need to swipe
once in your pocket.
Hence, for the 1st icon (Cut the Rope) you will think (0,1) ... row 0, column 1.
For Angry Birds you will think (1,2) ... row 1, column 2.
In Inject touch the App Store Swipe (Transmitter) and put your phone face up in
your pocket.
"Please launch the App Store on your phone" (if they don't have an iPhone you can
have them open any browser).
"I'm sure you know you can search for any app by using the search function".
Touch the "Search" tab at the bottom of the app store and touch the search field at
the top of the page.
"I'll search for one of these games" ... give your spectator the list of apps.
As you bring their phone up to your face, secretly hit the home button and find
their browser (Safari on iOS) and type your receiver URL.
Leave their phone face down, “Please point to any one of those 20 apps, but please
don’t say a word.”
Let’s say they point at “Angry Birds”. To you that’s not Angry Birds … it’s item
(1,2).
Here’s an easy system to swipe all the cards in a deck with a maximum of THREE
SWIPES!
The Houdini Swipe preset, ACAAN Swipe preset and the YouTube Swipe preset
uses this system.
The first swipe will communicate the suit (in SHoCkD order going around
clockwise):
↑ = Spades
→ = Hearts
↓ = Clubs
← = Diamonds
If you do just one swipe and stop you'll communicate all the KINGS!
↑ = King of Spades
→ = King of Hearts
↓ = King of Clubs
← = King of Diamonds
The next swipe will communicate values from Ace (1) to 4:
A to 4:
↑ = A (or 1)
→=2
↓ =3
← =4
5 to 8:
↑↑ = 5 (4+1)
↑→ = 6 (4+2)
↑↓ = 7 (4+3)
↑← = 8 (4+4)
9 to 12:
→↑ = 9 (8+1)
→→ = 10 (8+2)
→↓ = J or 11 (8+3)
→← = Q or 12 (8+4)
K of Diamonds ... Your thinking "Diamonds, K" ... ← (ONE left swipe)
2 of Hearts ... Your thinking "Hearts, 2" ... →→ (the first right is for hearts, the
second right is for 2)
7 of Clubs ... Your thinking "Clubs, 7" ... ↓↑↓ (first down is for clubs, the up is for
"4+", down is for "3", 4+3=7)
Q of Spades ... Your thinking "Spades, Q (12)" ... ↑→← (first up is for spades, the
right is for "8+", left is for "4", 8+4=12)
At first, this might seem a little complex, but with a little practice you'll quickly
think of all the cards in the deck as swipes!
We highly recommend that you practice inputing ALL the cards in a shuffled deck,
without making any mistakes, before you perform presets with cards.
If you're going to be thumping from your pocket, choose the Houdini receiver on
any other device, zoom in on the eyes, and monitor your progress.
In Inject remember the URL listed under your Houdini (Receiver) preset.
Now touch the Houdini Swipe (Transmitter) preset and put your phone face up in
your pocket.
"There's a BIZARRE photo of Houdini online that I want to share with you ...
please launch any browser on your phone".
In the address bar of your spectator's phone you'll type the URL for your Houdini
(Receiver) (from above). My URL is:
11z.co/7/7
When you hit enter, you'll notice that the above URL will change to something like
this:
11z.co/7/7-1459883382715
The LONG number at the end of your URL is going to guarantee that whatever
your spectator selects for their card, the above unique URL will remember their
selection for eternity.
"You see in this old photo, Houdini is holding a playing card, but you can't see the
face of the card".
"When you look into his eyes, imagine he's TELLING you which card he's
holding".
Put your hand in your pocket as you wait for their response.
"Please whisper any card" ... The reason for the whisper is so your spectators will
not accuse you of using voice recognition.
Let's say your spectator whispers "King of Clubs" ... you'll immediately do a swipe
down on your screen in your pocket.
To learn how to swipe all the cards in the deck, please read the above section
labeled "Swiping a Deck of Cards (53 variables)".
"Wow, that's so WEIRD! Everyone that looks at that photo, thinks of that card ...
please zoom in on his eyes".
When they pinch zoom into the eyes of Houdini, they discover a "K" in one eye
and the "Clubs" in the other!!
If your spectator now refreshes that page, it will STILL display the King of Clubs.
If they share that URL with others, that image will display the King of Clubs.
When you perform the effect again for your next spectator, it starts with the King
of Clubs.
Touch the YouTube Swipe (Transmitter) preset and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
"I want to share with you a video on YouTube ... please launch any browser on
your phone".
If you're performing on iOS and the device asks you to open the page in the
YouTube app, touch "Cancel".
Type youtube.com in the address bar again.
Without them looking, in the address bar of your spectator's phone type the URL
for your Receiver. My URL is:
11z.co/7
Put your hand in your pocket with your index finger hovering over the middle of
the screen.
"Whisper the card you're thinking of" ... The reason for the whisper is so your
spectators will not accuse you of using voice recognition.
Let's say your spectator whispers "King of Clubs" ... you'll immediately do a swipe
down on your screen in your pocket.
To learn how to swipe all the cards in the deck, please read the above section
labeled "Swiping a Deck of Cards (53 variables)".
When they play the video, the magician in the video turns over the King of Clubs!!
Remember the URL for your ACAAN (Receiver) ... if you don't have an ACAAN
receiver, then use Add Thumper and add the Effect "ACAAN".
Touch the ACAAN Swipe (Transmitter) preset and put your phone face up in your
pocket.
"I'm going to perform an amazing card trick where I NEVER touch the cards"!?
Leave the stacked deck from above on the table.
"You are going to use an online roulette wheel, on your phone, to randomly select
a number from 1 to 52".
Have them launch a web browser on their phone and openly type the URL for your
ACAAN (Receiver), from above, in their address bar.
My ACAAN (Receiver) URL is:
11z.co/7/17
"On this website, you can swipe the numbers from 1 to 52 ... when you get to 52 it
cycles back to 1".
"Hold your phone face down and randomly swipe forwards or backwards ... you
can stop anywhere you like".
Put your hand in your pocket with your index finger hovering over the middle of
the screen.
You swipe up on the screen in your pocket once to input the King of Spades ... this
will cause the corresponding number to the King of Spades (which is number 31)
to appear on their screen.
"Now turn over your phone to see what number you selected".
They think they have randomly selected any number from 1 to 52, but you have
forced number 31 on them.
"Remember how I said I wouldn't touch those cards ... pick up the cards and turn
over the cards, one at time, from the top until you get to 31".
Just as they are about to turn over the 31st card stop them.
"So far we still haven't seen your King of Spades. It would be an EPIC coincidence
if your King of Spades was at the 31st position".
They turn over the 31st card to reveal the KING OF SPADES!!
Closing Thoughts
Like all of the other Rostami Magic apps, Inject was designed to be a utility
device.
Feel free to create presets with your own unique themes and effects.
This manual shows swiping your screen by putting your hand in your pocket.
Did you know that you can also swipe your screen through your cloths!?
Most smartphones will allow you to swipe the screen through one layer of denim
(jeans).
You can swipe your screen by having your smartphone screen facing out in your
back pocket.
Feel free to experiment with swiping your screen through cloths, notepads,
envelopes, etc.
On iOS, the fastest way of finding your spectator's Safari is to go to their home
screen and do a big swipe down.
This will bring up "Spotlight Search". When you start typing "saf" you'll notice
that search will immediately move Safari to the top of the search field where you
can simply select it to launch Safari. You can also use Siri and say "Launch
Safari".
Remember that your accomplice can be ANYWHERE in the world that has
internet access.
If your accomplice is at home, call them with your phone, turn on your speaker
phone and leave your phone in your breast pocket with the mic facing upwards.
When your spectator speaks their selection, repeat their selection clearly so that
your accomplice can hear you through the speaker phone … They will type the
selection in their browser and your spectator will get the results … Now THAT’S
sneaky!
Carefully examine the existing default presets by touching the “Edit” button to the
right of each preset to learn more about how to create and customize your own
effects.
This makes it a lot easier for your accomplice to access your thumpers.
You can use free online disk services like Dropbox to upload the images that you’d
like to use in Inject.
Dropbox will then give each image a unique URL that you can type into Inject’s
Image receiver or Web Albums.
A great way to accessories Inject is with Yigal Mesika’s Electric Touch or Matt
Mello’s Imaginary Ball.
Use the image receiver in your own website by using the HTML <object> tag. This
way you can have a photo on your website that you can change remotely for some
pretty amazing effects.
Practice by putting your phone in the same pocket that you'll use during your real
performances.
Use your settings to bring your screen brightness down. This will help your battery
last longer and eliminate any light leaks coming from your pocket.
I’ve used Inject at trade shows nonstop, all day long, and I didn’t drain my battery
because my screen brightness was all the way down.
For effects where there’s a list of items, write down a numbered list on a piece of
paper and have your spectators touch any of the items on the list.
This will destroy any theories of voice recognition and it makes it easier for you to
remember which swipe gesture to use from your pocket.
If you’re performing in a quiet environment, you can turn off the vibration
feedback in Settings.
As far as memorizing which swipe gesture goes with which value, try rhyming the
numbers with the subject of your item. Some examples are one = bun ... two = glue
...
Another tip for memorizing swipe gestures for words is to think of the four
directions of the swipes as the first 4 vowels (a, e, i, o).
With this system the word pie would be (3,2) ... swipe down and right.
Look at the first two vowels in the word "pie" ... "i" then "e".
If you perform sitting down, try putting your phone in your lap, your knee or next
to you.
Create an image in Photoshop that looks like the interface of a lie detector
machine. Create an image that displays "Truth" and another "Lie".
Upload those images online and then create an image receiver effect where you can
trigger the outcome of your online lie detector!!
You can use Animated GIFs for your images. This means you can use the image
receiver to transmit animations to your spectator’s device!
If you have the phone number of your accomplice, text the preset URL to them.
This way, they don't have to type the URL into their browser.
Inject uses a very short URL for your presets. You are welcome to use your
favorite URL shortening service to make the URL either shorter or easier to
remember.
Credits
Concept, Art, Manual, Video Editing, Performances
Greg Rostami
Programming, UI Design
Hani Naguib
Special thanks to our families:
Talar Danayan Rostami
Sareen Tatevosian Rostami
Lori Tatevosian Rostami
Anne Konertz
Lara Naguib
Lino Naguib