“Though still pending approval by Apple, Penn Jillette was in San Francisco at the TechCrunch 50 conference, talking up Penn and Teller’s new card-trick app, in which they appear to be able to guess cards remotely,” Kane reports. “Here’s the way it works: The app mimics the main iPhone screen. When you invite a friend to name a card, you press a simple code on that screen, which will pull up a fake SMS screen that will appear as if you know Penn & Teller and that you text with them regularly. You hand the phone to your friend and invite the person ask either Penn or Teller what the card is. After some randomly generated small talk, ‘Penn’ or ‘Teller’ will correctly guess the card.”
‘We wanted to do something someone can do without any instructions and really really fry people,’ Penn said in an interview. ‘The fact that I’m doing tricks for people and I don’t even know about it just destroys me.’ Some Apple watchers may point out that there’s no way that Apple would approve an app that mimics their interface,” Kane reports. “The pair thought of that too and asked for permission in advance.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]