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How can you make the slinky even more fun? Just add human! Behold the strangest sight you'll probably see today, Romanian performer Ioan Veniamin Oprea, better known as the Human Slinky.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid (who has another clip)
When you drop a slinky, which part of it moves faster? When you get a good look at it in slow-motion, it only raises more questions, which physics professor Rod Cross explains. See the rest of the experiment at The Daily What Geek. Link -via mental_floss
Do you want to play with the slinky, but got no stairs? Jim Sellers has got you covered! Behold The Slink-O-Matic, a device that will do the slinking for you:
It "slinks" a slinky for you at times when there are no stairs and you just have to… Also useful in determining whether one is in the northern or the southern hemisphere. Due to Coriolis forces it will "slink" from right to left in the northern hemisphere and from left to right in the southern hemisphere.
OhGizmo! has the video clip of the Slink-O-Matic in action: Link | Gallery at Make Magazine
Previously on Neatorama: The Most Useless Machine EVER!
Last month, our very own Stacy (who just survived a freaky accident involving a downed power line – glad you’re ok, Stacy!) wrote a very neat post over at mental_floss about the background stories of 10 classic toys.
Take, for instance, Slinky:
Slinky was invented by Naval engineer Richard James. He knocked a spring off of a shelf when he was working to develop springs that could keep ship instruments stable in choppy waters. The spring did what a Slinky does… it stepped down to a stack of books, then to the table, and then to the floor, where it righted itself into a cylinder. James knew it would be a great toy, and tests by neighborhood kids proved him right.
Link – via i met a possum
Nick of Nick’s World of Synthesizers decided to build a spring reverberator … out of Slinky and cucumber! Here’s the Springatron 3000:
This is basically a giant spring reverb made from 10 slinkys. I was trying to make the best sounding spring reverb possible, I think I achieved this but it is probably the most inconvenient spring reverb ever made. The reverb time (sustain) is so long that the springs need damping and I found that the best material for doing this is a slice of cucumber wedged under the end of each spring, other materials like foam or rubber tend to kill all the treble.
Link (with MP3 audio clips) – via Make
