Slink-O-Matic machine slinks your Slinky for you (video)

Start swishing a Slinky back and forth, shifting its weight from hand to hand, and it can be awfully hard to stop. But, sometimes you have work to do. That's when Slink-O-Matic comes in, the automatic Slinky slinker that will shift the metallic coils from one side to another all day long, if you like. It's the creation of Jim Sellers, is beautiful in its simplicity, and we're told also doubles as a hemisphere detector: the Slinky will "slink" from right to left in the north and left to right in the south. There, now you've learned your "something new" for the day.

[Leindurstit Posted Aug 11th 2010 10:42AM]

Meh. Make an infinite stair step simulator for one and then I'll be impressed.

[Khalid Shahin Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:16AM]

Escalator?

[ebloomca Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:33AM]

@Leindurstit Shit! I'm in the wrong hemisphere!!!!

[jappleng Posted Aug 11th 2010 7:33PM]

@Leindurstit

I'm afraid the slinky will stop about half-way of the infinite stair simulator.

[T0astedP0Ptart Posted Aug 12th 2010 8:42PM]

@Khalid Shahin
Slinky sized escalator? one you could put on a desk?

[Diggler Posted Aug 11th 2010 10:42AM]

Fuck the Evo, I'm getting this!

[ramia Posted Aug 11th 2010 10:49AM]

Wow that thing is so awesome! I can finally watch TV AND Slink my Slinky AT THE SAME TIME!

[Nickmate Posted Aug 11th 2010 10:50AM]

That's so simple!! Can't beleive it wasn't made in 1990!! I'm sold

[ShadowMaker SdR Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:02AM]

If I show this to my 6 year old he may want to make it in Lego to up the cool factor!

[koehler83 Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:13AM]

How unimpressive.

[Stratus41298 Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:13AM]

I prefer solid state slinky drives over this.

[TheRealCJ Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:17AM]

Great! Now if I ever wake up and forget which hemisphere I happen to be on, I can check without having to get up and flush the toilet.

... this is the dawning of the age of aquarius people.

[nelagster Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:50AM]

Everyone Loves a Slinky

You gotta get a slinky

Slinky Slinky

Go Slinky Go!!!!"

*Slinky Stops*

"OH MAN!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it!!!

It was right there!

Can i do it one more time?

[silverton64 Posted Aug 11th 2010 5:50PM]

@the bandit gotta love Ace Ventura!!! :)

[alexz Posted Aug 11th 2010 6:28PM]

@nelagster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltwxC19s5u8

[CallDon Posted Aug 11th 2010 11:55AM]

I want one. What s Xmas gift.

[Peter Fox Posted Aug 11th 2010 12:01PM]

I especially like the fly that zips past at 0:06...

[huntmol Posted Aug 11th 2010 12:49PM]

Finally, my long search has ended.

[kyle shappley Posted Aug 11th 2010 1:46PM]

i know what i'm getting Woz for his birthday now.

[FuturismRave Posted Aug 11th 2010 2:38PM]

left to right and right to left??? If it is slinking the slinky all day - you won't where it starts left? or right??

[drummerdude1390 Posted Aug 11th 2010 3:04PM]

now make one that undoes the tangles in the slinky

[BrianEngadget Posted Aug 11th 2010 3:45PM]

Hello? This is Ikea calling. Please return our chair-testing machine.

[Eptin Posted Aug 11th 2010 4:04PM]

This is the Slinky your Slink could Slink like.

[iKid Posted Aug 11th 2010 4:11PM]

The guy who invented this has GOT to be Japanese somehow.