Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner's shoulder while they remain clueless. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Comments

1. drink some water and use nasal spray over all nice
2. Drugs, animal rape and inbred are misdirection of nature and life itself..
3. oh! Apollo was on Brain Games! he's great!!
4. blablablabla
5. Never get tired of watching this
6. wow wow wow
7. nice
8. You already know have the ppl in the front row lied
9. Last 4 letters of the url
10. this is great !!!!!!!jgysggaadgg
11. exposed I paused the video and found out there was 2 poker chips. pause at 5 min 54 seconds and you will see
12. I have decided that I will now dedicate my life to science to find ways for me to forget what I just watched and relive it fresh again because I got fucking spoiled by the comments about the shirt.
13. what people didn't see was he also changed his underwear.
14. i think the guy had 2 poker chips
15. I caught the change of clothes when he first got back onto the stage
16. broooooo this dude is the master of finessing
17. Great performance.
    
    It's just like what our government does to us. 🤓
18. Goddam it!! I read the comments so I knew he'd change his clothes at some point. And I still missed it...
19. I believe it was a pin up short tie and vest which he quickly took off when returning the clicker to the stage apprentices.
20. 4:36 watch very carefully he starts messing with his clothes its planned out thats why he walks over to return the clicker so he buys himself time to flip the shirt thats tucked in or something