Share

Tweet

At first your friends will laugh at you showing up with a pink spinning top. They will stop laughing after the loose bets who’s spinning top spins the longest. I wish they are is a way to turn off the LEDs so the spin even longer.

Spinning tops are quite fun but let’s face it, they spin a bit, wobble, and then in fairly short order fall over, job done. But what if they didn’t, what if they just kept spinning, mesmerically whirling round flashing out a psychedelic rainbow of light? Now that would be cool, but of course impossible – though evidently not or we wouldn’t have started out on this poorly constructed sentence in the first place. The Non Stop Top bucks the laws of physics with ease, you spin it and off it goes, not for a minute, not ten, not twenty, not an hour, but for up to eight hours!!

All it takes is a gentle twist and the motory gizmos inside the top (powered by a couple of watch batteries) spring into action, the lights flash bright and before you know it, it’s picking up speed and steadily working its way around your desk. Addictive, silly, mesmeric, and strangely not as impossible as you’d have thought. You could probably win quite a wad of cash by taking bets from the uninformed as to how long your new top will spin.

Link: Non Stop Spinning Top

- Movie Tags Gone Wild: Criterion Collection