Post-Its become Slinkies in "The Sticky Note Experiment"

Posted by John Brownlee, September 11, 2008 7:56 AM | permalink

If we can all just agree to the conceit that a square of brightly colored paper with glue smeared on one side is a gadget of a type, then this is the best gadget video of the week: Eepbird's "Sticky Note Experiments," in with 280,951 Post-It notes are stuck together and formed into slinkies. Its almost enough to make me wish I was still working from an office, as opposed to telecommuting from the toilet I installed in front of my refrigerator.

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment [Vimeo via Geeokologie]

posted in:

Favorite this! ( 9 )

Older LG Lotus: high-tech compact for fashionable men

Newer Mundane Gadget Spam of the Day: PenSol Precision Synthetic Oiler Kit

Discussion

Take a look at this

#1 posted by donopolis , September 11, 2008 8:46 AM

I just wanted to point out that these are not regular Post-it pads that have been made into slinkies. These are Post-It Pop-ups which already have the edges glued in alternating directions. They are being used as slinkies...no less beautiful, but a little less time consuming than manually sticking together all those post-its.

Donopolis

Take a look at this

#2 posted by FoetusNail , September 11, 2008 10:00 AM

Wow! That's the poop.

Take a look at this

#3 posted by Jake0748 , September 11, 2008 10:14 AM

HEY!! What's the deal with the new way recent comments are displayed on the right? At first glance I don't like it. I'd rather see an excerpt of the actual comment than just the subject.

Sorry to OT.

Take a look at this

#4 posted by Enochrewt , September 11, 2008 10:30 AM

At first I wasn't impressed, but by the end I was freaking out. It probably didn't take a ton of time (like #1 said, certain ones come that way). I was mostly impressed with the Post-it balls rolling down the post-it chutes.

#3: Yeah, I'm not a fan of the new "recent comments" either. You can't even read the entire title.

Take a look at this

#5 posted by bbonyx , September 11, 2008 11:31 AM

I'm a horrible person, I know, but all I saw was Jaimie Chung.

\Doesn't have the fever
\\Has the plague

Take a look at this

#6 posted by Mindpowered

, September 11, 2008 12:48 PM

I do like the "Vehicle" tag.

It's about time the slinky gets respect for the role it plays in moving things about in a modern society.

Take a look at this

#7 posted by Banksynergy , September 11, 2008 2:17 PM

I understand they used post-its already stuck at alternating edges... but this will work if I just stick them all like that myself using a normal stack, right?
I know, it'll take a while. But I have someone to impress.

Take a look at this

#8 posted by Anonymous , September 11, 2008 3:41 PM

I'm wondering if any third party post it generic ripoff goes to the trouble of gluing their post-its in that alternating way already, so that the slinkies could be ready made for us all.

I think that they are. Look how clean the edges of those stacks are. And if you peeled off regular post its to make those, there would be a curl.

Take a look at this

#9 posted by Secret_Life_of_Plants , September 11, 2008 6:21 PM

@3 I second favoring the old comment-showing style too -- I could always see Takuan's (spell?) latest thought!

Take a look at this

#10 posted by chef

, September 11, 2008 8:26 PM

Wait, so you poop in your trash can? Classy.

Take a look at this

#11 posted by arkizzle , September 12, 2008 9:38 AM

A conversation about the new format of the "Recent Comments" section is going on in the Moderation Thread.

Take a look at this