Three items from the '2005 - Second Best' case; they make a nice trio because they're very contrasting.
This is my favourite, so I'm going to leave that one to last. That's very clever;
Let me show you one at a time. The first one is a card, but it's hard to make out what it's
trying to show, because when you look at it what you see is just a mess.
And it's an out-of-focus mess! So the trick is when I bring the lens up - oh I'm upside down
for a start, I couldn't tell that before - here we are, a cheerful little face; vaguely mouse like.
And the other side contains - oh, the other way up now - I thought Donald Duck, but no,
it looks like Pinocchio's father, well, it reminds me slightly... no just that's just a fellow.
But without the red aspect it's pretty well invisible, you cannot see what's there at all;
it's a really magical effect from that to that, it instantly appears.
It's what they call a 'red reveal', once you put the red in front of your eyes,
you reveal it. The next one I like very much indeed; you're probably familiar with it,
it came out a few years ago, but it's disappeared recently. It's jewellery but with magnets,
so those pieces cling together; they're trying to cling together now - every single one of those
grey bits - I'll bring it up to the camera so you can see what it looks like, it's very pretty -
and all the grey bits there are actually little magnets...
Every one of those grey ones is a magnet, in between
the other beads. This first one, because it's a short piece, is a wrist decoration, a bracelet
for my wrist; here we are. As the magnets come together, they line up and click together,
not strongly, you can easily pull it apart again, and there it is, sitting on my wrist.
Very nicely done. And the other one is a much longer one and that of course has to be
a necklace; I'm going to put it on carefully...
I'm preparing myself...
for a rock concert! I Let's see if I can get this on. Here we are, it just about fits there.
I've got to have the right clothes, I can't be wearing a jacket and tie; but I think I'm ready now for a
summer rock concert, now they are starting to open things up and have big events again; and there's
my bracelet. So it's good stuff; I like jewellery that does this. I'll keep it on, when I'm showing
the last item. This is my favourite, this is such a very clever idea. It looks quite innocuous
doesn't it? Inside there's a card, which I'll take out, and show a handsome looking fella...
it's like an identity card with a picture; and underneath he'd have to put his
name and occupation, and whatever; on the back is his girlfriend? Might be his sister, I don't know.
But what we're going to do now is decorate them, put disguises on them; and the way
to do that is to put it in this little gadget here; look what happens with this...
I haven't yet put the cards in, but you can see something's happening when I hold it like this;
can you see there's a wheel there? and now when I turn it there are four
different disguises that we can put on those faces; to do that I'll do the fella first,
give him the treatment, give him his aliases, he's going to be a spy! Let's show him first of all
without without any disguises; there he is looking very handsome, peering through the window...
and now when we rotate the wheel, we'll first of all give him - I think it's going to work
better with the girl, it's a typical Mary Quant hairstyle with dark glasses as well...
That's a nice one with a French beret, big eyebrows, a big moustache, big everything;
isn't it neat! Oh look at that - that black thing is a beauty spot,
that'll work well with the girlfriend I think; and the last one...
yeah so I'm back again at the beginning. So let's have a go with the girlfriend and see what she
comes out like, with these four disguises. Isn't this a neat thing though, it just comes a little
box like that; open it up and there it is. I'll show her she should be without any disguises on;
she's a pretty looking lady;
now we'll start turning, and first of all give her a French
beret disguise; yeah well, okay, doesn't really suit her I don't think.
I think the beauty spot works very well for her; yes, that's nice, I like that.
That's what I call a Mary Quant look, yes that's perfect for her;
so it's a very very nice piece of equipment that, and it is just a little box you know, an identity
kit; or for mis-identities, or for disguise identities, an alias box! What would you call it?
Certainly for spies. Very clever, very very clever that.