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ESPy-onage by Stephen Young - available from Magicbox or Stephen's own sight Thought Illusions.
First let me say that I dont know Stephen and I purchased this effect as a genuine customer and am posting this of my own bat.
This is an outstandingly clever effect, God knows how long it took Stephen to put it together.
What you get - A set of psychic testing cards that could have been used by the security services at the height of the cold war but not necessarily so, "Imagine a set of 40 cards, each containing 7 different pieces of data. That's 280 pieces of information. What if you could reveal all of this information without memorising ANY of the data. Without any cribs,nothing written down, no confederates, no pre show...." and all of this is true. You also get a comprehensive instruction booklet which explains the methodology in easy to understand detail and also gives several presentational ideas. This effect can be performed close up or on stage it is very versatile and the presentaional possibilities are limited only by YOUR imagination. Due to personal circumstances I am working primarily close up at the moment mainly restaurants and private parties and I have had the opportunity to perform this several times over the past few weeks,it is getting great reactions and I cant wait to get to try it in a stand up situation.
An effect that is accessible to all but I would say is of greatest value to experienced mentalists with good performance skills.
The quality of the cards is 1st class and were produced in conjunction with the guys from Paralabs, if you stick with the base story it wont matter how old or worn your cards get, in fact it will probably increase your credibility. 9/10

Thanks Ewen.
I'm glad you're getting great reactions with it.

Since Ewen's post all ESPy-onage sets are sold out.
However I will begin work on ESPy-onage 2 next year.

For those who perform a little more in the spooky storytelling vein, I have new effect that is based on ESPy-onage to a certain extent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0bqF7pjHaA

Steve