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youtube.com - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
25 Comments
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Title is kinda misleading. The article just describes how to make an alternator.
Nothing new there. - ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I won't.
Step 1: Rub something vigorously with your hand to build up a static charge... - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Argh. Multipage things like this are horrible things to digg.
People, please, use the "All steps on one page" links when you link to this sort of thing:
http://www.instructables.com/id/EA6Z1L9CKREYSYVCHY?ALLSTEPS
This way, the mirrors will pick up all the content and not just mirror the first page of it. - ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is clearly superfluous. The body can generate electricity on it's own through Chi: http://youtube.com/watch?v=77nD5xmL0kU
John Chang says so. - UncleCrapper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's staggering the lengths people will go to find new euphemisms for masturbation.
- kiiwii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Same concept is already used for those whacking flashlights."
I think this video is appropriate here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PxM-VvxxqkI - CedEx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The same electricity we built as kids rubbing our socked feet on the carpeted floor and and slowly sneaking behind a friend and touching their ear.
Shockingly fun! - Jeeum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2WTF is this?
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Well I was gonna say stay clear of the gas stations......
- blankoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1simple - "Kame Hame Ha!!!"
- dankenstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First, the digg story was completely mistitled. Secondly, this person seems to speak of electricity and magnetism as if they spent 30 minutes on wikipedia. There is really one word that describes exactly what he is doing: induction. That is it. He connects the other ends of the coil to produce a spark and make it visible, but other than that he is simply demonstrating a fundamental concept of electromagnetism; the electric filed induced in a closed contour (loop) is equal to the negative time rate of change of the magnetic field in a surface encompassed by that closed contour, i.e. Faraday's Law. The key concept is a changing magnetic field, which is why when he moves the magnet there is a current induced in the coil. There are other ways to achieve the same thing, you can have an electromagnet pulsing a magnetic field into a coil, or a coil changing shape with time in a stationary magnetic field. Anyways, this concept is far more intelligibly demonstrated at this simulation:
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/faraday/faraday.jnlp.
It is java, just go to the Pickup Coil tab and it is exactly what he is doing. From what appears in his guide (the pictures are not much help) he seems to just be moving the magnet by the coil, not even through the inside of the coil which would produce maximum electromotive force in the loop. Then he goes as far as to mislabel this as a permanent magnet generator, which is just ignorant. A generator that uses a permanent magnets uses rotating magnetic fields and induction in many coils that come together to make alternating current. - uidzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Making electricty with your hand?
Imagine if we could harness this power, millions of lonely males at home on a weekend could power cities for months at a time. - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Same concept is already used for those whacking flash lights. You know what I'm talking about... Those Flashlights made in China that charge when you shake up and down in a whack motion...Yeah, I bet the chinese thought about us when making these.
- walnutthewise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am sure this is the article all the young Sith trainees got excited about, then they clicked and a huge collective "meh" was released.
- Johny900, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Damn that's truely impressive !
John - Advice on switching the electricity and saving on energy bills
http://www.you-switch.org - justo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i did this article just for this comment! that video is amazing!
@ringo380 ---------------
This is clearly superfluous. The body can generate electricity on it's own through Chi: http://youtube.com/watch?v=77nD5xmL0kU
John Chang says so. - protogenxl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
- xSEED, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2dragonball is coming true
- Lugal317, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Poorly documented. The comments tearing this guy down were better than his write up which included the same picture 3 times over. Ehh..
BURY IT!!! - Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I thought all you had to do was be related to Black Lightning or Storm.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Hiskool fisics time, boys & grls!
- Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I thought to make "electricity", at least one person had to be on base. Then other people could hold hands with the person on base to create "electricity" to anyone not on base.
- sedo1800, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Digg killed one of my favorite websites.
- phynodedotnet, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Awww, this one is too easy. I'll refrain from commenting.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3What is this "electricity" you speak of?
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