Floa­ting Glasses

Do you remem­ber the old trick, where two glas­ses are pla­ced with the ope­nings down onto a clear glass plate (or a book), which is then tur­ned over with the glas­ses being appar­ently sus­pen­ded in mid air?

I always liked the trick, because of its sim­pli­city and the fair look of the used artic­les. Here is a little sug­ges­tion to make the whole thing even more spec­ta­cu­lar and logical.

Ins­tead of the glass plate or the book, use a clear bot­tle. The image shows how impres­sive this setup looks. The method and the gim­mick actually are exactly the same. The whole thing beg­ins as a ‚jugg­ling stunt‘, which then trans­forms into a magi­cal effect, when you turn the bottle.

I would sug­gest using the modern poly­car­bo­nate glas­ses for this stunt and the gim­mick made of two small trans­pa­rent pearls and nylon string to ren­der them invisible.