Over the summer, there was that horrific show on NBC called America's Got Talent. It had Regis Philbin as host and Brandy, David Hasselhoff and some British twit as the judges... it was kind of like The Gong Show meets American Idol. Anyway, there was this pair on there who call themselves "Quick Change." They do a magic trick, with the gist of it being a woman changes her clothes like 10 times in a span of about 2 minutes. It's pretty amazing to watch. Here it is on Youtube. Well, of course everyone watches it and is kind of stumped as to how they do it. You know that the woman must be wearing all the costumes at once and just peel them off very quickly... or something... but even that doesn't seem to make sense when you watch it.
Last week, they were on Oprah and she was duly impressed, just as pretty much everyone is the first time they see it, and wondered how it was done. The man, David, mentioned that no one is able to figure it out and then said that he had a patent for the "effect." Well, say no more, I went right to the Google Patent Search (after first finding out his last name) and here is his patent! It's called a "convertible costume construction". Now, I couldn't exactly make one for myself but I get the general gist from skimming the patent that indeed she is wearing all the clothes at once and he's developed ways to remove the costumes quickly using "rapidbly disconnectable fastening means".
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