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You can't hide the batteries when it's transparent!

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@SteveMould 11 ай бұрын

I decided not to get into why perpetual motion isn't possible. Would you like to see a separate video about that? The sponsor is Incogni: The first 100 people to use code SCIENCE at the link below will get 60% offi: incogni.com/science

@dogle367 11 ай бұрын

yes

@g76agi 11 ай бұрын

I think a lot of people have a basic idea of it, but having its own video couldnt hurt!

@alinstoi 11 ай бұрын

Me! I think you have a real talent in explaining complicated things in simple terms. Keep it up!

@mulgerbill 11 ай бұрын

I'm up to see your take on the whys, TIA

@littlebacchus216 11 ай бұрын

NO! Because it always descends into comment chaos. It comes down to anyone interested already knows why and the people that don't either don't care or actively don't believe why.

@TechnologyConnections 11 ай бұрын

Careful, or soon you'll have too many small kitchen appliances!

@zero-lk2un 11 ай бұрын

heres the boi

@ventilate4267 11 ай бұрын

sounds about right

@massimookissed1023 11 ай бұрын

I believe that stuff is called Delaware. It's like Tupperware but just lurks at the back of the cupboard, never to be used again.

@radiocage 11 ай бұрын

You can never have too many small kitchen appliances! My air fryers are best friends and both similarly haunted by the same ghost.

@CrisEdmundson 11 ай бұрын

HE SAID THE LINE this is the crossover I needed

@JanStrojil 11 ай бұрын

The Technology Connections shoutout was spot on. Including the facial expression Alec makes. Made me chuckle. ❤️

@Stage4000 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@r0cketplumber 11 ай бұрын

I've used the "magic of buying two of them" phrase in front of my wife to her consternation.

@35manning 11 ай бұрын

For a second, I was confused and had to double check which channel I was watching. Like, I knew it wasn't Alex, but thought maybe it was a guest host thing or something .

@ameleri 11 ай бұрын

XD @TechnologyConnections

@AlecThilenius 11 ай бұрын

I've watched so much of both channels that it took my brain a hilariously amount of time to figure out what wasn't right with the image I was seeing lol.

@oldbloke135 11 ай бұрын

The beauty of this device is that he made the visible components out of such simple materials, wood and steel rails, which automatically disassociate it with tricky electronics. If it had a plastic box base you would immediately suspect that there was something inside it but our general experience is that wood is solid.

@Talpykaze 11 ай бұрын

@legoduino No shit sherlock holmes

@fredriksvard2603 11 ай бұрын

@legoduinoThe point was that we assume wood, unlike plastic, is solid. The poster and everyone else watching the video knows there are electronics in the wooden base.

@TheTruthKiwi 10 ай бұрын

@oldbloke135 Good point mate, appreciate you putting it into words. 👍

@danessip 11 ай бұрын

“The hardest part about making a perpetual motion machine, is finding where to hide the batteries”. Also loved the Technology Connections references!!

@angrykermit3192 9 ай бұрын

And there it is, the same comment copied and pasted in every video about this toy.

@kirkvilla9781 9 ай бұрын

@@angrykermit3192username checks out lmfao

@VoltisArt 9 ай бұрын

@@angrykermit3192silly frog, it's not just this toy and the comment is probably older than KZfaq. People like quotes, even if they don't know who said them...this is not news.

@timspiker 8 ай бұрын

No it's figuring out how to use the electrons already in the air constantly spinning (invisible free energy) and using their rotation to power a device.

@gabri41200 8 ай бұрын

@@timspiker Electrons in the air... invisible energy... I think you mean beta radiation and nuclear power, though the former is not free

@thegameswalker6291 11 ай бұрын

Now Technology Connections just needs to make a transparent, 2D version of something and KZfaq will be complete

@ashishkumawat6110 11 ай бұрын

It'll be a "perpetual" colab...

@moderatti 11 ай бұрын

He made a dishwasher with a window that one time

@herebejamz 11 ай бұрын

@@moderattiOh my God you're right he's literally already done it!

@TidalMaster 11 ай бұрын

Watch it be a heat pump…

@Samu2010lolcats 11 ай бұрын

@@moderatti It checks for transparent, but fails the 2D part.

@ThePedrobl 11 ай бұрын

The first Technology Connections bit got me good. But the bloopers, fudging around with the camera remote? That's how you know Steve is a real one 💯

@Benabik 11 ай бұрын

I had to check the captions to see if it said "🎶 Perpetually smooth jazz 🎶"

@t0biascze644 11 ай бұрын

no because steve doesnt have actual subtitles like Alex, only the YT autogenerated ones

@iout 11 ай бұрын

@@t0biascze644 No, Steve does have actual subtitles. But he did forget to include the "adverbly smooth jazz" part.

@SteveMould 11 ай бұрын

Have fixed the captions now to reflect TCs videos. All my videos do have human generated captions, but shamefully they're usually not available until a few hours after publication.

@t0biascze644 11 ай бұрын

@@iout sorry, when i wrote that comment there were only the ai ones 😓

@braeeee_ 11 ай бұрын

the perfect bounce back into the hole at 1:52 was so satisfying

@GabbuZ89 3 ай бұрын

hole in one moment

@Ryan125y 7 ай бұрын

“In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”

@The8BitGuy 11 ай бұрын

I chuckled at the technology connections parody!

@marblemunkey 11 ай бұрын

@The8BitGuy I legit laughed at "the magic of buying two of them", and always love seeing you tubers spreading the love. Including you and your fabulous channel.

@telperion3 11 ай бұрын

Everyone did. Like, _everyone_

@-NGC-6302- 11 ай бұрын

I wasn't fully paying attention at that moment and I was real confused for a second or two

@protheu5 11 ай бұрын

You're next, you know? Steve will casually fix some retro computer in the next video as a homage.

@kameronpeterson3601 11 ай бұрын

what is this? the crossover episode?

@Rubrickety 11 ай бұрын

That’s almost cruel, given how hard Alec has worked to convince people that his background is _not_ greenscreened. 😂

@3nertia 11 ай бұрын

That's what makes the joke *so good* xD

@ericgoldman7533 11 ай бұрын

Would have been even more cruel if he had used an animated image so the lava lamp would look like it's doing its thing

@Spectrumnist 11 ай бұрын

TechnologyConnections needs to see this, and probably already has.

@JonathanPaz 11 ай бұрын

Doubtless he joyfully gave permission and watched in glee

@rikwisselink-bijker 11 ай бұрын

@@Spectrumnist Two comment down: @TechnologyConnections 10 hours ago Careful, or soon you'll have too many small kitchen appliances!

@MarkDice 11 ай бұрын

It's hilarious seeing people on twitter who believe the device is a breakthrough in "perpetual motion."

@TheInfamousBertman 11 ай бұрын

Oh hi, Mark!

@floivanus 10 ай бұрын

This has got to be the strangest spot I’ve seen Mark Dice pop up😂

@orangemaniabrother2232 10 ай бұрын

Never expected Mark Dice here, I'm not on Twitter to have heard about this, I'm just looking up random thoughts I'm having on KZfaq lol

@ka1ock 9 ай бұрын

Even if it existed you would still need to extract energy from the system to make anything useful

@jamesb.russell2942 9 ай бұрын

Nice to see you here, Mark! Didn't expect it. I still think it might yet be possible, but the patents were seized by glowies long ago.

@sonibrahmana5814 11 ай бұрын

The way I like "perpetual motion" stuff is by looking at them as if they're magic tricks. Of course, the scammy side of it is bad, but things like the one on the video is like a magical artwork. It tingles with your logic, and it got you thinking on how it works. It just looks fun.

@ElectroBOOM 11 ай бұрын

Nice to see inside the thing! When I saw it first time I thought they made a CGI machine.

@wzdew 11 ай бұрын

You've been watching too much Captain Disillusion. ;)

@gianluca458 11 ай бұрын

Btw Steve Mould did ElectroBOOM's job here. THE RECTIFIER!

@The_Potionist 11 ай бұрын

Your comment didn't blow up yet...

@capivara6094 11 ай бұрын

I also thought it was CGI. The ball's movement seemed fake/unnatural.

@sirfer6969 11 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣@@The_Potionist

@williamn1055 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Making the clear one was a blast!

@seth468 11 ай бұрын

Cool idea you had there! Have you considered making one using the lorentz force instead, like a little railgun? That would be so freaking cool. All you'd need to do for the rails is make them two separate pieces instead of a loop, and then of course, uh, build the gun part. But railguns for low power applications are actually stupid simple to make. The US Navy is using low(er) power railguns to launch aircraft from the latest generation of carriers, so maybe you could make a themed one?

@PiousSlayer 11 ай бұрын

I really like the look of the transparent one.

@rickymarumade 11 ай бұрын

thanks william!

@aarondavis8943 11 ай бұрын

You do nice work. Thanks for allowing us all to see how it functions 👍

@acomingextinction 11 ай бұрын

You did a brilliant job. It looks fantastic!

@walrus4248 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for showing how it worked, I thought it was simpler, like voltage on the wires. Such a pretty woodworking job on the product and clever design.

@faint46 11 ай бұрын

6:45 Gotta plug in my perpetual motion machine. 😂

@BalugaWhale37 11 ай бұрын

The Technology Connection references were absolutely delightful. It's fun to think that you enjoy his idiosyncrasies too.

@nebular-nerd 11 ай бұрын

As soon as I saw the background I had to chuckle. Loved the cheesy credit sequence as well 😁

@generalawareness101 11 ай бұрын

It cracked me up, LOL.

@erischaos 11 ай бұрын

I legit started wheezing. The use of TC's description style for the music in the closed captioning - in this case "*painfully smooth jazz*" - was a nice touch.

@HassanSelim0 11 ай бұрын

@@erischaos It would've been even better it if said something like "magnetically smooth jazz" (since TC started using adjectives that relate to the topics of the video) 😁

@erischaos 11 ай бұрын

@@HassanSelim0 I did think that, but I still give it an A for effort.

@jaromir_kovar 11 ай бұрын

I felt so much childlike joy from that Technology Connections bit and outro. I am still smiling. Well done and thank you, Steve

@personnel5757 11 ай бұрын

indeed! XD

@robertturney9198 2 ай бұрын

Omg Steve the frame with the TUTU made me spit my tea! I am loving your videos. You make me feel smarter....thanks Rob

@bjohnno1985 8 ай бұрын

Just saw this thing on Facebook so came to KZfaq to find out how it worked. Was so glad to find a Steve Mould video of it!

@WKfpv 11 ай бұрын

Somehow I felt proud of Alec the moment you said "through the magic of buying two of them". This made my day.

@LeoStaley 11 ай бұрын

I've been subscribed to him since his video on flattening the cylinder to invent records.

@realcalebrome 11 ай бұрын

THIS! YES! my heart was so full for him

@Ajaykrishna97_ 11 ай бұрын

The toughest part of designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out how to hide the battery

@EdgarRoock 11 ай бұрын

My Overunity Generator doesn't need any battery.

@thoalfuqar4177 11 ай бұрын

@@EdgarRoockyes it doesn't, it runs on electricity from live wires

@Ajaykrishna97_ 11 ай бұрын

@@EdgarRoock if you can prove it scientifically noble prize awaits for you😂😂

@troliskimosko 11 ай бұрын

@@EdgarRoockYeah, it only needs live wires 😂

@trevorlambert4226 11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how you could say this after seeing the engineering that went into this design.

@danielriley8784 9 ай бұрын

The use of Technology Connection's set is A-1 amazing, I love it.

@lawdawgmon6901 7 ай бұрын

Love that this technology connection was made.

@eysteinrset1305 11 ай бұрын

Alec and Steve need to do a collab or nine where they play around and explain old and weird science experiment apparatuses with high interestingness in excruciating detail. It should be named Mouldy Technology and it will be magnificent! Edit: Forgot a

@boomergames8094 11 ай бұрын

Oh, my. Yes!

@c4sper877 11 ай бұрын

yussssssssssssssss!!!!!11111oneoneone

@jpe1 11 ай бұрын

I will subscribe to this and watch every episode!

@pollodustino 11 ай бұрын

Mouldy Connections. And both of them will wear fuzzy green jackets.

@mikeundcris 11 ай бұрын

Hey @SteveMould and @technologyconnections, are you reading this? Pleeeeeeeeaaaaase make this happen! :D

@Vendavalez 11 ай бұрын

Was not expecting the magic of "buying two of them" would spread to this channel, but was very pleased to see it and the commitment to do the reference justice 😂

@IHateUniqueUsernames 11 ай бұрын

I assumed Alec helped out with the background and the template for the credits - since clearly Steve wouldn't steal trademarks (not registered, probably; but these are really good people).

@ELECTROHAXZ 11 ай бұрын

Two of them files.electrohaxz.host/file/db57321e7222f4c0b625b4411cb549b6/firefox-v-cu-qr-kg-jw-z.png as CRD would say :)

@donovan665 11 ай бұрын

Someone once showed me this asking whether it was real, the kick to the ball was so obvious, i asked, you ever seen a ball and gravity move like that, accelerating out of a loop? Great engineering but unconvincing to the eye.

@Zwijger 5 ай бұрын

Oh he is the kinetic sculpture guy, damn this might be the first thing he made that's in my price range.

@cogspace 11 ай бұрын

It never ceases to amuse me how many other video makers share my love for Technology Connections.

@Andoryuuu 11 ай бұрын

I laughed so hard at the "Thankfully, through the magic of buying two of them" bit! Oh man, this is the crossover I needed today.

@Marenthyu 11 ай бұрын

This made my day!

@milokiss8276 11 ай бұрын

He really knows his audience

@hydrocarbon8272 11 ай бұрын

I'm still laughing about it! I love watching his disection/explaination/history vids. And he nailed it.

@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker 11 ай бұрын

And then the music and outtakes at the end. Brilliant! 😂

@azmifarhan1257 11 ай бұрын

The Magic of Buying Two of Them™

@natesturm448 5 ай бұрын

Bravo to William for not acting like a tool when approached about displaying the mechanism to a huge audience.

@milesandmountainscoaching Ай бұрын

“Through the magic of buying two of them” with the green screen just had me😂😂

@ajsnz 11 ай бұрын

This first episode of Mouldy Connections was excellent and I look forward to many more.

@massimookissed1023 11 ай бұрын

Ah, Mouldy Connections. Like when you find a lost gadget that's had a battery in it for 6 years.

@TheTonyMcD 11 ай бұрын

Perfect name!

@Patrick94GSR 11 ай бұрын

@@massimookissed1023when I found my original game boy in a box a few years back. Batteries still in it. 😮

@Mustombrider 11 ай бұрын

Lol'd at the comment, exactly what i was thinking when i heard the credits music 😄

@tmuiuocrndqs 11 ай бұрын

If possible, yes

@brap3775 13 сағат бұрын

off the basket right into the hole at 1:52 was so satisfying

@aymerickmessier5359 7 ай бұрын

I started college at 27 because of this thing. Not because i was impressed, but I had to argue with 10 grown man in the lunch room of a construction company why this was impossible and it made me realized it's not where i belong

@josephwodarczyk977 7 ай бұрын

That's awesome dude.

@realityChemist 11 ай бұрын

Love the Technology Connections reference, it was a fun "Wait, what?" moment Edit: oh shit another one! Nice!

@paulwright8378 11 ай бұрын

He should of done a big Clive one to get more laffs😂

@DimkaPlotnikoff 11 ай бұрын

The difference in height on 2:25 is due not only to friction losses. Part of the potential energy converts into rotational kinetic energy of the spinning ball.

@anonymes2884 11 ай бұрын

And a part into sound. Energy losses abound. (that's the odd thing about people being taken in by perpetual motion - we all experience the reasons it can't happen all the time, they're just missing that extra step of realisation)

@codycummings92 11 ай бұрын

Exactly what I came down to write.

@Debbiebabe69 11 ай бұрын

@@anonymes2884 these is probably a tiny amount of EM energy as well, metal against metal.......

@barneylaurance1865 11 ай бұрын

And plain old linear kinetic energy - it's going back towards the platform on the left. If it was to be perpetual by being perfectly lossless rather than by free energy that movement would have to be converted back into downward movement somehow at the top.

@sensorer 11 ай бұрын

@@Debbiebabe69 which is basically friction, no?

@zinkist 3 ай бұрын

So this is basically just a tiny Rail-Gun? NEATO! Also, love that Technology Connections joke!

@jessnickgames 2 ай бұрын

I loved that Technology Connections reference! It had to stop the video to laugh legitimately. This tickled me in a way that I didn't think possible. Thank you so much for this!

@notenoughmonkeys 11 ай бұрын

That Technology Connections shoutout made me realise I need to keep tabs on both yours and his videos, and thanks to the magic of subscribing to both of them, I can make that work!

@KillerSpud 11 ай бұрын

Wow, that second green screen is extremely well done. The lighting is spot on.

@randomsomeguy156 11 ай бұрын

I feel like he's gaslighting us by calling it a green screen

@juanfp 11 ай бұрын

@@randomsomeguy156 its an actual green screen, the chair's edge has a bit of green and also on his hair. But its very well done, specially being the first video with it.

@TitanInvictusTube 11 ай бұрын

That Technology Connections BG, amazing. Love that channel too!

@invisiblekid99 11 ай бұрын

I’ve had one from William for a while and love it. It’s amazing to watch. Please buy from his and not a cheap knock off as they rarely work. It not cheap but it’s really fun to watch.

@lengoctuan155 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@devikwolf 11 ай бұрын

"And through the magic of buying TWO OF THEM!" got me, magnificent call-out and perfectly executed.

@aiboffin295 11 ай бұрын

Penn & Teller do several routines where after performing a magical effect they repeat it using transparent versions of the props involved and every time I see them do it I'm more impressed the second time because I develop an appreciation of the skill and/or preparation involved in the illusion. I have the same appreciation now for this device.

@geefreck 11 ай бұрын

I always loved seeing these way more than the actual trick, because I always want to know how it's done. Seeing it is so eye-opening that I always get a thrill!

@daxhopkins7312 11 ай бұрын

That's because they only show you the interesting ones. If they showed you how most of magic is done, it'd quite disappointing fir many

@830927mjki 11 ай бұрын

@@daxhopkins7312 People say that you are disappointed when you learn how the trick is done. But some tricks get more amazing when you know the secret. Derren Browns Chess Master trick is one of my favorites.

@jayhafner7152 11 ай бұрын

I like it better when they "explain" an illusion, and in the process, fool you with an illusion buried in the "explanation "!

@830927mjki 11 ай бұрын

@@jayhafner7152 "The closer you look, the less you see" kinda thing?

@julianmac2117 4 күн бұрын

I've never seen this vid till now so I was really tripped out when I saw the technology connections background. Really caught me off guard

@nickm2001 5 ай бұрын

I have one of these. I mounted it sideways on a constant velocity truck to demonstrate Galilean frames of reference. It works really well!

@TheLastSamVimes 11 ай бұрын

"Through the magic of buying two of them" 😂😂

@PSNDonutDude 11 ай бұрын

This slayed me. I don't think I've ever actually laughed at a KZfaq video before (I don't laugh easily) but this did it.

@austinsloop9774 11 ай бұрын

The connections set was a fantastic use of the green screen

@craigejacobs 11 ай бұрын

Everyone knows Alec's set is just green screen! So a green screen of green screen!

@jek__ 11 ай бұрын

@@craigejacobs It's actually a television set to display colored boxes behind some open-back box shelves. So it's a kind of screen at least

@craigejacobs 11 ай бұрын

@@jek__ I know - it was a joke. Commenters were always saying it was a green screen. I've the tour of his studio, and it's my primary design for the new office I'm working on.

@drumset09 9 ай бұрын

Love the shoutout to Technology Connections

@theAstarrr 11 ай бұрын

0:55 love the reference to Technology Connections lol 6:49 the end too wow

@gabrieletedeschi7744 11 ай бұрын

I REALLY appreciate that you added "painfully smooth jazz" to the subtitles of the outro! Part of the appeal of Technology Conmections is to discover which kind of smooth jazz it will be this time!

@myislander 11 ай бұрын

I did too.... but it should've been "Perpetually Smooth Jazz" imho. :)

@myislander 9 ай бұрын

Looks like someone took my suggestion!!!!!!😂

@stinkymart3173 11 ай бұрын

I love the term "perpetual motion simulator." I have an ex whose dad is a "mentalist," basically somewhere between a magician and clairvoyant, but he starts his shows by openly acknowledging you're about to see parlour tricks you could learn on the internet, and criticizing self-proclaimed psychics etc as flagrant shysters. Of course the appeal of his show was he'd been practicing those "parlour tricks" for years and could still leave an amateur wondering how he did it. Always liked that approach Who are you people?! Leave me alone...

@transorm987 11 ай бұрын

Huge fan of that approach

@kriscolvin8377 11 ай бұрын

Very similar to Penn and Teller's approach to magic. They make it very clear that they are performing tricks that just feel like magic.

@lw3894 11 ай бұрын

You dated Banachek’s daughter?

@BenjaminVestergaard 11 ай бұрын

I love "magic" even though I know it's "fake". I mean, when performed to perfection it's like watching a violinist or soccer player that has put years of passionate practice into their art. Wonderful approach to tell the audience off the bat that it's all an illusion that simply takes a lot of practice to get to look good.

@FreakFilms101 11 ай бұрын

a man of culture I see@@lw3894

@TheFerdi265 6 ай бұрын

That Technology Connections reference was so smooth and out of left field it almost knocked me off my chair

@jevinday 10 ай бұрын

The guy with the design just held back so you'd pay him to make you a clear one. In all seriousness, this is really freaking cool

@AurumEquus 11 ай бұрын

I love when some creators make a loving homage to another creator. Yours was really well done.

@alexmartian3972 11 ай бұрын

I wonder is if it's endorsed by Tech Connections.The studio looks very close, was it filmed in Tech Con home? Otherwise AFAIK it is called parody if it is by majority vote looks as parody. Otherwise just copycatting?

@tylerrichardson1671 11 ай бұрын

@@alexmartian3972he says (in that clip) that he's using a green screen

@norwegiansmores811 11 ай бұрын

yeah i just saw that technology connections reference right now.

@jacobfalardeau676 11 ай бұрын

The green screen was done so well that I thought he was in Alec's studio.

@Cowcow211 11 ай бұрын

@@jacobfalardeau676 You can just about make out the green around his hair where the interlacing or whatever it's called fails. Pretty sure Technology connections did a video on that.

@Climato 11 ай бұрын

I love the technology connections play!

@jmi967 11 ай бұрын

Loved the Technology Connections bit. And your ballerina impression

@animegx45 2 ай бұрын

God, the sound of the ball hitting the magnet is so satisfying.

@geckoman1011 11 ай бұрын

The technology connections visual reference was perfect. I enjoy it when my favorite KZfaqrs give subtle shout outs like that.

@JoachimVampire 11 ай бұрын

I can't express how MUCH i LOVED the "technology connections" reference!!!! hahaha!!

@terminator3000 7 ай бұрын

That's one of these things that i could sit in front of and watch all day.

@DavidJamesHenry 11 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for finding the original creator!!! I couldn't find him anywhere and all the knock offs just use loud motors

@DavidJamesHenry 11 ай бұрын

@Pin_SteveMould_On_Nicegram bot

@robinsonlittle6422 11 ай бұрын

the bounce back in at 1:52 is so satisfying

@ToyotaCharlie 11 ай бұрын

someone should make a looping gif out of it

@aonghusofaolain8686 11 ай бұрын

Very much It looks like it was going to over shoot after that too

@choo_choo_ 11 ай бұрын

For some reason I instinctively thought about "thanks to the magic of buying two of them", right before that segment, and lo and behold this dude does that and more. The phrase is so ingrained into my mind with these types of videos that it lives rent free, but never did I expect it to actually happen.

@albert109 11 ай бұрын

It was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

@choo_choo_ 11 ай бұрын

@@albert109 Didn't think a reference needed to be difficult.

@WhiteRaven___ 11 ай бұрын

@@choo_choo_Not getting the reference is TIGHT

@michaelhoffmann7428 7 ай бұрын

As a science teacher, I love this, thanks for the clear and simple explanation!

@chaxinitus 6 ай бұрын

1:52 - I just want to take a moment to appreciate that the ball bearing hit the backstop, but the bounce sent it perfectly down the chute afterward. Just a perfect little chip shot.

@fakjbf3129 11 ай бұрын

I always laugh when I find out various channels I watch also watch each other, though Steve and Alec have similar enough content it’s not that surprising.

@3nertia 11 ай бұрын

It seems that [we] nerds all hang out in the same corners of KZfaq lol

@Moe_Posting_Chad 11 ай бұрын

Its literally the power of friendship.

@theblackwidower 11 ай бұрын

Be weirder if we found him drinking Prime.

@Michelino_M5 11 ай бұрын

"Through the magic of buying two of them" had me looking back at the screen with surprise. The background had me laughing my buttocks off. Engineering Connections does deserve the reference, you guys both make excellent videos!

@Michelino_M5 11 ай бұрын

Wait, the bloopers sections was even better! Absolute gold right there

@atsdroid 11 ай бұрын

@@Michelino_M5 Steve even mimics Alec's physical mannerisms upon catching a mistake, so you know he's a fan paying close attention.

@DanDeebster 11 ай бұрын

I immediately turned on the subtitles to see how deep the parody went.

@analog_guy 9 ай бұрын

William's neat device brought to mind Harry E. Stockman's tunnel diode motor. Stockman's motor also uses electromagnetic pulses to keep it going. His circuit is a marvel of simplicity, consisting of only a 1.5 volt battery, two resistors, a coil of wire, and a tunnel diode to spin a magnet. The motor, which can also be rigged to be a pendulum, was written up by C. L. Strong in "The Amateur Scientist" column of Scientific American magazine for October 1965.

@kosmicken 7 ай бұрын

I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard at the Technology Connections background. 😂😂😂

@jdoone 11 ай бұрын

The ball bouncing directly into the hole at 1:52 is so satisfying

@invisiblekid99 11 ай бұрын

I have one of these (From William) and it’s insane to see and happens really quite often.

@mugmushrooms9845 11 ай бұрын

That's what she said

@scruffyuk 11 ай бұрын

I was about to comment the same thing! So satisfying! :D

@snoozeflu 11 ай бұрын

Couldn't the hole just be made bigger or cone shaped so it does this every time instead of rolling around in the tray?

@arthurdeleu7552 11 ай бұрын

It seems like due to the direct bounce into the hole, less friction affects the ball before sliding down the slope, so that more energy is preserved when the ball is subsequently sent flying through the sky. The ball clearly seems to overshoot at 1:54 due to that rare event of a direct bounce into the hole. Seems like an unpatched (rarely occuring) design flaw that could be due to the changed material in the transparent design. Sick.

@NoTimeLeft_ 11 ай бұрын

1:05 Steve you clever bastard. I love Technology Connections and that was absolutely spot on!

@tomthompson7400 11 ай бұрын

Well done William for being a sport ,, and a great video all round , its way more complicated than I imagined.

@wisppandemonium8106 10 ай бұрын

The Technology Connections bit was wild

@DK2ez 11 ай бұрын

The technology connections reference is legit hahaha

@thecianinator 11 ай бұрын

0:59 That was so natural I didn't even notice what you were doing at first, but holding the shot on your forced smile like that drove it home 😂😂 well done

@abaddonarts1129 11 ай бұрын

It's so cool that it was made like this! I had a similar thought process once I first saw it but had no idea how to verify if it functions like that without getting one myself. Had no idea it was available for purcase!

@beridus 11 ай бұрын

I like how all my favorite tech and science youtubers are aware of each other and watch eachother's content. It feels like one big family in a way lol.

@noticiasinmundicias 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is what peak TV felt back in the day. Also why I don't subscribe to Netflix et alia

@jonathangaliano2617 11 ай бұрын

What are some other good channels? Thanks

@thebiglebowsky1076 11 ай бұрын

This just destroyed me believing this worked without a gadget my whole life 😢

@riveradam 11 ай бұрын

@@jonathangaliano2617 Veritasium, Technology Connections, Tested (Adam Savage), Tom Scott, WIRED, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Royal Institution, Journey to the Microcosmos, Two Minute Papers, Practical Engineering, Stand Up Maths, Mathologer, Kurzgesagt, Vsauce, Zefrank, PBS Space Time, Perun, 3Blue1Brown, Nerdwriter, Numberphile, Scott Manley, Atomic Frontier, Colin Furze, Sixty Symbols, Smarter Every Day, Corridor Crew, PBS Eons, Paul M. Sutter, Stuff Made Here, World Science Festival (Brian Greene), Steve Mould, Medlife Crisis, The Royal Society, Electroboom, CGP Grey, The Slow Mo Guys, Ling Thusiasm, Dr. Becky.

@TheEarthCreature 10 ай бұрын

@@thebiglebowsky1076 Well that goes to show how naive you are.

@jackalovski1 11 ай бұрын

A crossover I wasn’t expecting but glad it happened.

@HedgeWolf23 8 ай бұрын

I really thought it was the closest we could come to an actual perpetual motion machine. The added variability of the spinning allowed for it to slide down and back out

@raymitchell9736 7 ай бұрын

Next you'll be taking apart pinball machines and review old toasters and such... Through the magic of buying two of them... You'll accumulated a lot of stuff. LOL

@patrickmilligan8409 11 ай бұрын

Man, I've always felt physics-dumb. Couldn't get better than a C in physics in high school, failed in college (passed the second time but barely) but your videos make me feel less dumb. I just realized how important that feeling is. Thanks, man. For real.

@ianmason. 11 ай бұрын

I like the version with the permanent magnet. The rattling back and forth as the ball is trapped is exactly what would happen to *_Wile E Coyote_* if he'd bought a perpetual motion machine from ACME.

@jeffbuckles 11 ай бұрын

That's it! I knew it reminded me of _something_

@TimpBizkit 11 ай бұрын

I actually think of the road runner when he does a sudden stop and vibrates back and forth like he's on a spring.

@DieFlabbergast 11 ай бұрын

I can see it in my mind's eye!

@johncochran8497 11 ай бұрын

Not quite. The ACME version would of course cause Wile E Coyote to be stuck in one place. But that's just so the anvil won't miss him.

@midorinchan 6 ай бұрын

Did steve mould just reference technology connections Im so happy

@NobleNobbler 11 ай бұрын

"Through the magic of buying two of them" was a legit lol moment

@incrypt_2220 11 ай бұрын

I just love that Technology Connections is popular enough to be satirized! It's awesome that he's gotten that big!

@harryman_1324 11 ай бұрын

AND THROUGH THE MAGIC OF BUYING TWO OF THEM!!!! What a great bit.

@SiboBushings 5 ай бұрын

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

@miral6694 6 ай бұрын

"Through the magic of buying two of them" ... wait a moment, I recognize that background...

@pindab0ter 11 ай бұрын

That outro had me in tears! The "typing" did it for me. I would LOVE to see a collaboration!

@JenLee66 11 ай бұрын

Moldy Connections really had me rolling!😂😂😂

@pindab0ter 11 ай бұрын

@@JenLee66 Oh I totally missed that, that’s brilliant!

@hollt693 11 ай бұрын

That feels both more complicated and more elegant than I expected. When I first saw one of those, I had the idea to take advantage of the conductivity of the balls and railing to have the ball complete a circuit between the rails that would supply power to the electromagnet, then I'd simply paint the rest of the rail with a clear enamel or something to break the circuit just before the ball hit the bottom of the ramp, allowing it to proceed through the curve and jump back into the cup. Looking at this setup and the huge capacitors, I get the feeling that I probably wouldn't have been able to get a strong enough electromagnetic pull with just a coil of magnet wire and a 9v battery, so I'm glad to have been spared the frustration.

@zac9080 7 ай бұрын

OMG the TC reference absolutely made my day 😂 THAT WAS EXCELLENT! 😂

@ImNotGam 3 ай бұрын

I love the Tech Conn reference lmfao. Its beautiful.

@jjmetrejhon1743 11 ай бұрын

For five seconds I was more stoked than I have ever been for an uncoming collboration, but then my hopes were dashed 😩 At least we got some Transparently Smooth Jazz!

@ArkanoidZero 11 ай бұрын

I absolutely love that Technology Connections bit

@gibsy4843 11 ай бұрын

Respect to the maker of the machine for making a clear one to show how it properly works, hes not in for the money, hes making something people will find interesting and will probably stare at for hours, well, that i'll stare at for hours.

@sittaman 8 ай бұрын

I've seen a version of this device where there is a spinning wheel inside the hole that pushes the ball when it pass through. It's powered by a wire hidden inside the upper part legs

@TrondBrgeKrokli 11 ай бұрын

Haha, thank you for including the set Alec uses for his videos. Made me smile each time, half expecting Alec to show up in some form of collaboration.