Gérard Majax

Maurice Faier known as Gérard Majax born 28 April 1943 is a French illusionist He has appeared in many television programmes magic demonstrations and movies From 1987 until 2002 he along with Jacques Théodor and Henri Broch of the Laboratoire de Zététique at the University of Nice SophiaAntipolis oversaw the International Zetetic Challenge During the 1990s on a latenight television show hosted by Thierry Ardisson Majax gave a demonstration of the rotating table socalled supernatural phenomenon a group of randomly selected people from the audience stood around a round table put their hands on it and the table went up and started rotating Observation of a video recording made of this event showed that some participants had metal hacks hidden in the sleeves of their jackets When the participants put the hands on the table the hacks pinched the table underneath allowing it to be lifted In 2000 he created The Hallucinoscope a virtual reality system that works without electronics and gives the user the impression of walking above ground Source Article Gérard Majax from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA