Easy, impressive business card trick

I hesitated to post this, since now I won’t be able to impress anyone who actually reads this blog, but it’s too cool-looking to not share.

Make your business card disappear (by folding it back behind your fingers):

I found it interesting to see how exactly it was done. I had figured that it was behind the fingers, but assumed that it was just pinched between two fingers, and was the magician was dangling it behind his hand, full-length, so to speak. I hadn’t realized that you could bend it to make the card hew closer to your fingers and make the illusion better while also maintaining better control of the card.

Also note the clever use of misdirection, as he waves his hand like a maniac.

(From Wired’s series of how-to wikis.)