Photographic memory

I have never seen anyone with a photographic memory. We had a professor
this morning teaching us how to do presentations. One of his points was
that if you make your presentation interesting, people would remember a lot
more of it.

To demo the point, he asked a classmate to randomly come up with 20 things.
He wrote them down on a transparency as the items were read out. He then
turned off the projector and asked the class how many items people could
remember. I think some of us remembered 5, or 10 things.

He then turned on the projector so we could see the list. With his back
facing the projector (so he couldn't see the list), he read out items on the
list in sequence. Not one screw up! Then, he read it out backwards.
That's not it. He also listed five things and the associated positions they
were relating to others (like 5 is elephant, 10 is firehose.)

Incredible!
(I want to be on whatever he is on)