Last night Derren Brown 'predicted' the BBC UK lottery results live on Channel 4.
video link here:
YouTube - Derren Brown Predicts National Lottery Numbers The Event
lots of discussion online about how he did it. including technical discussions about camera angles / split screens etc going on. Miniature lazer printers, projection added after the effect etc. Lots of discussion about how the camera shake isn't real, and added on afterwards to hide the joining of live and static feeds etc.
However my favourite theories so far are:
"Occams razor principle applies... so can only be time travel."
"He's spent the last year training ants to dip their feet in ink and write the numbers on the balls by doing a little dance.
if you zoom in, you can see their tiny footprints."
"The solution is elegantly supplied by physics.
Since there are an infinite number of universes, the Derren Browns in each universe predicted different numbers. We just happen to live in the lucky one. There are alot of parallel universe C4 viewers out there who are very disappointed."
"If you watch closely at 5:43, you can see the moment when the frame is frozen long enough for Brown to invoke Satan. Afterwards, on the wall, behind the tv equipment, you can see the scorch marks, and on the floor what appear to be patches of blood, while Brown has the haunted look of a man who's just made an ill-judged pact."
so - how did he do it? Apparently he is explaining all on Friday - but I expect will be more misdirection rather than camera trickery admissions.