It already happened, it's just waiting to resurface. I had one if these as a kid in the early 2000s, purchased at a souvenir shop on vacation in Florida, presumably unreasonably overpriced. It had a kind of tie-dye rainbow string in it, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. It broke before we got home from vacation.
This one the tiktok video is showing I can understand why there's a microcontroller in there, since it's easier to buy those than it is to buy just 1 chip purposefully made to control 2 motors. For a large batch, yeah doesn't make sense
They've been selling these at theme parks for years. My parents always refused to buy me one because they charged an ungodly amount of money for them. Finally bought one on a field trip in high school aaaand...it broke within a week. It was cool though. The rope was color changing neon and it had a built in black light so in the dark it made a really cool effect. Now I wish I still had it.
If there is one thing I've learned about cats is that their interest in playing with something is inversely proportional to it's cost and actual function.
Have you had that happen? Cats climb trees by their claws and I’ve seen mine pull on theirs really hard. They grow straight from bone so I imagine they’re pretty strong.
My cat hates anything electronic. She's received two really cool cat toys that require batteries and do cool things and she ignores them. She'd rather play with her little rattling balls.
She especially hates her automatic cat feeder. But she doesn't ignore that when it turns on!
Your sole role throughout the whole thing is after the main characters say, "How will we ever know where to go?? If only we had some way of getting into the mainframe..." - characters look at you as the camera pans your way - You happen to be eating a pizza pocket or something just as they get to you and of course you either feign a "What??" Or a "This system is more complex than I'm used to" followed by 15 seconds of furious tapping on the computer keys and then saying "I'M IN!" Of course you'll get about 2 minutes of you guiding them through the tunnels and such by radio with the schematics you happened to know exactly how to find after hacking...
Edit: here is a video of it I just took (sorry terrible quality) trippy cat toy I own sorry bad quality I am filming with one hand and using it with the other hahaha
Ah! My friend got it a year ago for me maybe they had a sale + prime. I just searched for something similar to get you on the path! I hope you can find it!
True, just mean ruining that to say how easy they are to find! Fuck that dude! (Mine was a gift, and when I googled it Amazon popped up!) I am sure you can find them elsewhere!
I can only find one called the “String Thing” which is a sort of bigger version (with black lights) that can also sit on a table by itself, but it’s $39 plus $11 shipping. Not sure this is worth $50.
Totally! Here is a quick video of it I just took (sorry terrible quality) trippy cat toy I own better when you can play with it! But I am taking the video
They exist... For Kids! Whe I was a kid my aunt gifted me a toy pipe (maybe that wouldn't fly today) and when you'd blow into it would do this with the string.
Not true! I made a similar device for running cables when I started in IT. I couldn't always use it, but when I could I saved literally hours. Then I sat on my ass for the extra time I'd said it would take so I still got paid for that time
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u/SlappyMcWaffles 26d ago
Totally useless...and I want two!!!