by iummydd » Aug 9th, '06, 05:37
Well there is the color changing lighter, but the version on the market isn't with Zippo lighters but the cheap plastic ones.
although I did saw somewhere about a year a go a guy doing a whole routine of him taking a Zippo lighter of some color, lighting a small peace of flash paper with it and produce a small silk in the color of the lighter while the lighter itself changed color, and he did it again about 2 or 3 times, when eventually it went to plain metal color and then he turned it into a mylar mouth coil (only he pulled it out of his hand instead of his mouth).
Haven't seen it any where else so I guess it was costume made, but a pretty cool idea to play with if you ask me.
You can always levitate/animate small plastic lighters (maybe a Zippo with a Kevlar IT but I doubt it), but I don't think you can keep them lit while doing so unless you turn them into "gas candles" by screwing with the mechanism.
I also saw a nice trick in a video of a Fantasio lecture, where he did a lighter penetration trick by customizing an old color changing lighter, I don't really remember it fully but if you have a color changing lighter or know how one works you can pretty much get the idea of how it’s done.
Oh yeah, and if you know a thing or two about chemistry and can get the materials you can make "color changing flames" by burning different kinds of metals.