Euler's Disc
January 24, 2016 10:39 PM   Subscribe

Euler's Disc.

There are, of course, more of these on the web: 1, 2.

(Obligatory Wikipedia page.)
posted by benito.strauss (15 comments total) 17 users marked this as a favorite
 
I said "wow" exactly in time with the "wow" on the soundtrack -- in fact I had to replay it to be absolutely be sure my microphone hadn't been hijacked and fed back to me somehow.
posted by jamjam at 11:00 PM on January 24, 2016 [3 favorites]


Ok, I must stop watching that guy's videos (Grand Illusions) and go to work. Really.

Wow, he's got some awesome looking toys. I want them all. The String Ray was cool. (Not that I can find the video again on YouTube)
posted by leahwrenn at 11:13 PM on January 24, 2016


I've spent too much money on this guy's stuff. Fun stuff though.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 11:25 PM on January 24, 2016


Maybe it's the insomnia, but the longer that went on the more I found it unnerving and increasingly terrifying.
posted by Ian A.T. at 12:22 AM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


Grand Illusions previously.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:34 AM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


The String Ray is indeed pretty cool, leahwrenn.
posted by zanni at 12:38 AM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


I swear that end sound has been used as a sound effect for someone slowly coming to a realization.
posted by rhizome at 1:10 AM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


Maybe it's the insomnia, but the longer that went on the more I found it unnerving and increasingly terrifying.

This is the same son-of-bitch who has my nose, I'm pretty sure.
posted by thelonius at 5:21 AM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


I had one of those as a kid. It was mildly entertaining, but I never thought it was all-that. Now, older, I appreciate the physics of the fact that a super-minutely concave mirror keeps the disc spinning far longer, and how it causes the accentuation of the sounds as the spin reaches its end. Alas, I haven't seen the one I had in over a decade, and it's presumed lost in the 3 household moves since then.
posted by mystyk at 5:48 AM on January 25, 2016


Mine still hasn't stopped. That means I'm dreaming, right?
posted by Obscure Reference at 7:13 AM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


I swear that end sound has been used as a sound effect for someone slowly coming to a realization.

What it needs is that big piano chord from the end of "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
posted by eriko at 8:44 AM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


What did that put me in mind of? Oh yeah.
posted by lagomorphius at 10:15 AM on January 25, 2016


I want to believe that this guy is the North Pole's equivalent of Q.

"Now, pay attention, Claus..."
posted by condour75 at 10:16 AM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


The advertising singularity seems to be making great strides. I just went to read the Disney princess FPP and there was an ad for a toy called Foreverspin (made in Canada) copying the Inception top.
posted by bonobothegreat at 10:41 AM on January 25, 2016


35 years ago I had an endless-top like in Inception. The base was battery-powered.
posted by rhizome at 11:47 AM on January 25, 2016


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