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One of the all-time favourite discoveries I made at the Nuremberg Toy Fair a few years ago
are Hurricane Balls as we call it, which is just two ball bearings, they're half inch
ball bearings but they've been welded together with 800 amps of current, so heavily joined together.
And they do a most remarkable thing when they are put on a surface;
either a business card or a table; or in this case we're putting them on a mirror surface.
Because when you spin them and then when you blow on them,
you can get them up to about a few thousand r.p.m (revolutions per minute) as follows.
I'm blowing them with a small tube and the noise slowly revs up, just like an engine revving up,
and they will spin for perhaps three or four minutes, on a surface.
But in addition to that you can also light them, as we are suggesting here, with little torches
that we provide, red or blue or white ones. There's a blue one.
Then you get a wonderful effect here because you get multiple rings due to the reflection
in the mirror below.
And they appear to dance and become elliptical as you move the torch to one side.
I'll do one of the white ones and I'll try and do all three. But I like the fact that the ball bearings
on a smooth surface will stay spinning with enough inertia, for a considerable amount of time,
three or four minutes I've timed it for. There we are, there's all three now.
The noise is fun too, and then when it does stop of course it stops very abruptly,
like another spinning top I've got.
But that's quite the best thing I've ever come across I think, at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.
Hurricane Balls I've named them, because of the speed they are going in a circular motion.
And I've had a lot of play value from that, many other tricks and so on, you can do with it.
And it will keep on spinning, on and on and on, far beyond the length of this little film.
Huh! Hurricane Balls.
Gosh