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iwantoneofthose.com - 10/5/2008

Non Stop Top

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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 ...

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gizmodo.com - 10/6/2008

Non Stop Top Never—Wait For It—Stops Spinning [Spinning Tops]

— gizmodo.com — Like a Ronco rotisserie or the perfect politician, you can set this non Stop Top and forget it, because it never stops spinning. Well, it never stops until it runs out of battery juice, which takes about eight hours. Mileage for pols or rotisseries ... (more) Non Stop Top Never—Wait For It—Stops ...

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Non Stop Top Never—Wait For It—Stops Spinning [Spinning Tops]
Gizmodo — ... Like a Ronco rotisserie or the perfect politician, you can set this non Stop Top and forget it, because it never stops spinning. Well, it never stops until it runs out of battery juice, which takes about eight hours. Mileage for pols or rotisseries is probably much more than that. It's a cool, shiny top, however, even if they don't really go into detail about the inner workings that keep it spinning for so long. [I Want One of Those] ...

Non Stop Top never stops spinning
Gizmodiva.com — ... the battery gets exhausted. Just a gentle push and the motory gizmos inside the top spring into action, the lights flash bright and soon it picks up speed and steadily finds its way around your desk. Unlike the regular top that spin a bit, wobble, and then in fairly short order fall over this Non Stop Top keeps on spinning and whirling round flashing out a psychedelic rainbow of light. It spins for not ten minutes, not twenty, not an hour, but for up to eight hours!! It Cost Just $19.

The Non-Stop Top is no perpetual-motion dreidle
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... array of Nun, Gimel and Hei, it instead spins faster, faster, faster, until the skeletons of the horrified onlookers are sucked out of their skins and their empty skins lay flaccidly shin, forever. Instead, however, we get this pink, battery-powered top, somewhat resembling the UFO of an extra-terrestrial race of drag-queen Liliputians. It is neat, and will spin for up to 8 hours of its own volition, but it is no perpetual motion dreidle, my friends. Non-Stop Top [I Want One Of Those via Gizmodo]

Non Stop Top Never Stops Spinning - Except For When This Photo Was Taken
OhGizmo! — ... I guess I should have suspected as much when it had a price tag of about $16 and is available from I Want One Of Those instead of DARPA or the Rand Corporation. ...

Non Stop Top
Ubergizmo — ... Are you fascinated by the way tops work? Well, if the answer is in the affirmative, it would be prudent to check out the Non Stop Top from Firebox that literally goes on and on and on, until one of the two happens - the internal battery runs out of juice, or you're sick and tired of seeing it spin until you feel like puking. Who would've thought that something which costs ...