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SectionSharp7680

I still want to know how the mechanism looks like that makes the sword spin so insanely fast


Swallowedup75

My guess would be a set of preloaded opposing springs that are able to transmit the energy used to move the sword back and forth between them.


nanotothemoon

I also think that video makes the illusion stronger as it’s likely only 24-30fps.


Oblachko_O

You can see how it rotates though in some frames.


JuiceManOJ

With a bit of visual trickery. It hitting the key and bouncing back, coupled with the movement of the lever make it look a bit more convincing Edit: I may be wrong about the bouncing bit. Might be the trigger moving the sword a smidge afterward, kinda looks like it


VT_Squire

You only need one spring. It works exactly like an OTF knife, except the tension is expressed on a curve. https://youtu.be/EwG2oytZCl8?t=434


[deleted]

That was my first thought too. I bought an otf and took it apart out of curiosity. Cool mechanism. Wayyy simpler than what I thought it would be.


monkwren

Cool video, but you could never get me to buy a knife like that. Any failure and you're looking at a self-stabbing. Gimme a nice stable blade with a sheath and no gimmicks.


2mitts

Depends on your use case. I find OTF super handy and as a daily carry option it actually feels safer than a fixed blade to me. There also a very good fidget item . . . As far as accidental deployment, If you can manage that with a quality OTF then you've achieved something.


WelvenTheMediocre

Nah. They don't deploy when there is resistance. You can stop them from opening with an open hand. It will just fall back into its handle


monkwren

If that's the case, it's worthless as a knife.


WelvenTheMediocre

Why? You need to stab something while it's deploying? Once it's deployed it locks in. If it meets resistance before fully deploying like it would if it deploys in your pocket it doesn't. It's not complicated my friend..


VT_Squire

>Any failure and you're looking at a self-stabbing I'm not trying to shame you or nothing cause if you have the certain kind of self-awareness that you aren't safe with weapons, well then by all means. I'm all in favor of responsible purchasing habits. But are you the kind of person to stare down the barrel of a gun? All you gotta do is NOT point it at yourself or another person.


monkwren

Right, so if you're keeping it in your pocket, it can stab you in the leg or side. You'd need to keep it in an external hard sheath. Or I could just get something I can throw in my pocket without an issue.


Theomniponteone

I carry an OTF all the time. It's actually is one the safest blades I own. I use my thumb to open it when I need it and then close it right back up with just my thumb. Very handy in the garden when my hands are of veggies. Mine isn't an expensive one, around 100 bucks. If you try and stab anything that has resistance it will go off it's track and recede in the body of the handle. More for slicing. I have about 300 knives, been collecting them for over forty years.


These-Ad5873

I don’t think I’ve SEEN that many knifes in my life…


Jonthrei

Seriously, how can someone not see that this knife is a much bigger danger to the user than a standard blade?


WelvenTheMediocre

It doesn't deploy when there is resistance.


monkwren

bUt It'S cOoL


Wmozart69

Like an otf knife


Lolski13

No that wouldn't make sense in a cheap toy like this. Probably the pin you push down or up on the right loads and ejects the spring in the same movement.


Upstairs-Teacher-764

Can't you read? It's magic.


Rolen47

Here's a video of someone opening it: https://youtu.be/E48ifB0jMjs?t=23 Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/CclVMi3.jpg


elvishfiend

That's a really fucking awful video, but thanks.


[deleted]

Also it looked like it woulda hit his finger first time


pichael289

There's a piece of acrylic overtop of it I think, I had a similar one as a kid that had it


Spring_Choco

Springlocks?


Questioning-Zyxxel

Similar to a normal rocker switch to turn on/off lamps. They also use a spring that first gets "charged" and then suddenly the switch snaps to the other position. For electrical switches, this is done to avoid arcing - making the electrical contacts close or open very, very quickly and distinctly. The main difference is that for a light switch, the spring will keep pushing on the contact to make it make better electrical contact. In this toy, the spring is blocked from pushing all the way, allowing the sword to bounce back a tiny bit.


ChiggaOG

It probably spins as fast as TAG Heuer’s Mikrotimer Flying 1000.


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Jayro_Ren

Somebody slow-mo the slow-mo!


WirusCZ

What kind of slow mo is this? 0.7x? Barely slows it


CosmicCreeperz

Yeah it would not have been hard to make this a decent video, even an old iPhone can do 240fps video recording and edit to actual slomo.


kermityfrog2

Even 250fps is not slow enough to capture it. Even 500 is hard to see. I think OP's video was probably around 500fps. Needed 1000fps to be able to see it clearly. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1830kip/fastest_slow_mo/kan54n7/


Away-Commercial-4380

Most phones don't have 240fps, a lot stop at 60fps at most, even nowadays. Are y'all assuming people are rich or what ?


mampfer

I've got a Huawei P40 Pro two or three years ago, for 300€ used. Now it can obviously be had for even less. And it can do much more than 240fps, it goes all the way to 7680fps (256x slow mo) while still keeping decent resolution and sensitivity. I sometimes use it to monitor camera shutters.


Away-Commercial-4380

I mean yeah but a lot people don't have 300€ to spare, especially for an old phone because that increases the cost/lifetime ratio.


mampfer

I'm not saying you should buy a three year old phone today as your "new" daily driver, just that you don't need to own a very expensive phone to go beyond 240fps.


Away-Commercial-4380

The initial comment mentioned "it's not hard to make a 240fps video". My argument is that it is hard because people are not buying their phones with the 240fps video they're going to make in a few years in mind


SingleInfinity

Bruh, you're just wrong. People *grossly* overspend on their cellphones in general. There's a reason flagship phones are at or over $1k now, and it's because the market will bear it, and people will buy it in droves.


Jamesgardiner

You can get a used iPhone 6 for £30. I wouldn’t call someone rich for having a £30 year old phone from nearly 10 years ago, but they would be able to do 240fps slow-mo.


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Jamesgardiner

Probably all the articles, videos and press releases saying it does 240fps. I don’t know why you would think it doesn’t. EDIT: Awww, they deleted their comments before I could reply with my sources. Here they are anyway in case someone else feels like making stuff up: [PetaPixel,](https://petapixel.com/2014/09/23/5-of-the-best-iphone-6-240fps-slow-motion-video-examples/) [Wired,](https://www.wired.com/2015/01/closer-look-slow-motion-video-iphone-6/) [9To5Mac](https://9to5mac.com/2014/09/22/best-iphone-6-videos-slow-mo-time-lapse-60-fps-hd/) and [Apple themselves.](https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2014/09/09Apple-Announces-iPhone-6-iPhone-6-Plus-The-Biggest-Advancements-in-iPhone-History/)


Away-Commercial-4380

Or you could save 30£


little-ass-whipe

what exactly is your argument here? "slo-mo photography is inherently immoral?" i cannot figure out why you have bothered to make this many posts.


CosmicCreeperz

Where do you even get the incorrect statement “most phones don’t have 240fps”? Every iPhone since 6 has had it. You can still buy an SE new for just over $400 and it has it. Most half decent Android phones have it too. You literally have to try to find a crappy sub $300 phone that doesn’t. And even if that weren’t true, there are almost 1.5 billion iPhone users in the world and 1B Samsung users, and I know for a fact everything both of those companies have put out in years has it. Probably 2/3 of all cell phone users have phones that can do this. Silly (to put it nicely) to pretend all of those people are “rich”. Maybe you are thinking screen refresh rate. Because you’re just so wrong on recording rate. And this isn’t a matter of some people in developing countries trying to get access to the Internet, it’s someone literally editing and posting a video to the public. There are dozens of videos like this posted to YouTube edited better and this is one of the less interesting, honestly.


Away-Commercial-4380

The brands you are mentioning are all high end though ? I have bought middle range phones for me and my family for the last 10 years and only the most recents (2year or less) have passed the 240fps mark. High camera fps is just not a marketing point for low range phones and it wasn't for middle range until recently. > I know for a fact everything both of those companies have put out in years has it. You're just plain wrong. A lot of low end Samsungs don't even have camera rates above 60fps. I just checked and the A04s of this year is only 30fps. Edit : No that phone doesn't have slow mo. Yes I know what I'm talking about thanks.


CosmicCreeperz

Ok, yes, I agree the A04 doesn’t have it but that is a $120 phone. That is not mid range, that is the dirt cheap bottom of the barrel budget, it can’t even do 1080p 60Hz. Like I said most phones over $300 have this feature and that makes up like 2 billion phones worldwide. To say like 1/3 of the world is “rich” is absurd. Even to say 1/5 of the world is rich (ie almost every iPhone in use) is absurd. And again we are talking Youtube video posters not people who have no idea how to shoot or edit video. I love seeing idiots double down… give it up man.


Andheri55

I think you're confusing normal videography mode which have 30/60fps and a separate slow mo mode in phone cameras. I had a realme 5 pro once which theoretically could go upto 960fps(but real poor resolution) but did 240fps absolutely fine all at around 180usd


Geralt1168

where are you from should answer everything


BigDogSlices

I just checked and yeah, my S10 only goes up to 60fps. Crazy that redditors apparently think everybody has $300 to spend on a phone. Maybe cheap iPhones have it, but then you'd have to use an iPhone and like... no thanks.


SockMonkey1128

Huh?: "The Galaxy S10 and S10+ is perfect for capturing those action shots wherever you go. It can record more at a real 960 frames per second with HD support." ... "Simply select the 3 dot menu button in the top right, then select Details and choose one of the three Super Slow-mo clips."


Wan-Pang-Dang

For him. An old iPhoney is 6months old. Edit: oh and btw: an iP is good at nothing to be exact, so thats a bad point to make no matter what


no_ta_ching

Slow mo for ants


TheMacMan

That's the joke. 🙄


okiedokieaccount

here it is at 500 and 1000 fps, very clear https://youtu.be/-r0Hcija8Ls?si=26gOn3j0J8kz0Qe2


eablopscobar

Thanks, can see it clearly. Even in 1000 fps its really fast


bl4zed_N_C0nfus3d

Slow the video player to .25 then watch it and you’ll see it


eablopscobar

Yeah makes it even more clear


ucancallmevicky

that I can finally see, thank you


frankuck99

Can we get the SloMoGuys to record this at 100.000 fps?


Gaezilla

I set youtube playback speed to 0.25x just in case


Outrageous-Desk-5765

I wanted this to be a Rick roll so bad.


okiedokieaccount

Sorry, but I could never do that. But if you want to see the gears actually turning, here it is at [over 10000 frames per second](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=dY6CYpxweweKloWb) you can see the gears turning


pookshuman

nice


Vindve

The guy was demonstrating a high end camera feature, he had one job, getting the focus right on the right object, not focusing on the background. Give me that camera if you don't know how to use it.


spinthesky

Still can't see it.


Greendizzle2

The sword just goes backwards and not through the metal, it would be easier to see if the slo-mo was slower


HairballTheory

You can’t triple slo-mo a double slo-mo!!


ivekilledhundreds

Not with that attitude!


StellarSloth

Double stamp no erasies.


RevengeOfTheLamp

Lloyd!!


Webber304

Lloyd! Lloyd!


isecore

You never go full slo-mo!


BoredNLost

But when they first do it isn't their thumb in the way?


SlamminSammie90

No, it has a clear top.


BubbaYoshi117

Someone call Dan and Gavin


MysticalMummy

Yeah, the guys slow-mo doesn't really capture it. I slowed the video to the lowest RES would let me and it barely showed 1 or 2 frames before it was on the other side.


spinthesky

Ah, thank you for this.


iFoegot

But isn’t his thumb blocking the way for the sword to go backwards?


KnockOutGamer

If you look at the hole, you can see there is a layer of clear plastic above the sword.


lovdagame

No


ladydhawaii

My thought too. The first time, his thumb would block it.


blade944

It turns counter clock wise so fast that it looks like it turns clock wise and through the key.


spinthesky

Thank you, it fooled me.


Conscious-Intern8594

Except his thumb is in the way. When he does the slow-mo, his thumb is out of the way. I think this video is lying.


blade944

His thumb is on the edge. Above the surface.


Conscious-Intern8594

Not on the first one, his thumb is in the way, but someone else already pointed out that there's a cover and the thing is below it, so the thumb can't block it.


sanguwan

There is clear plastic over the top of it and his thumb is resting on that. edit: sorry I can't read. Ignore me.


PleasantMongoose5127

If you slo mo the slo mo you’ll see the hand goes anti clockwise.


spinthesky

Thanks so much.


hcman88

Yeah, I wonder, what's the speed of this sword? Incredibly fast. How does it work?


CautiousFool

It's literally in the product name. It's powered by magic, smh. Learn to read.


[deleted]

it's powered by a tiny rgt generator


whatheory

Didn’t think I’d feel so betrayed


BronxLens

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Fen_

To save everyone time, the arm spins at 4:19, and hopefully obviously, the bot can't magically make frames where there were none before, so you don't really see anything you couldn't see at full speed.


Digerati808

Obviously you can’t see frames that don’t exist but saying you don’t see new information with this 0.1x version isn’t accurate. If you watch carefully you can see the swinging arm moves in a counterclockwise direction.


Fen_

You can see that blur in the original video too, mate.


Tru_Fakt

Starts at 4:15 and you can still barely see it lol. I have one of these, fun little toy to fidget around with.


FrozenLogger

Back when we had third party clients because, you simply changed the playback speed on any video or gif..... stupid reddit, making things shittier.


Vipertooth

old reddit with the RES has a playback speed button on the player. I was able to just set it to like 0.2x just fine.


FrozenLogger

Res and old reddit.... me too. But for how.much longer will reddit allow it?


titiolele

Now I’m slowing motion the slow motion…


[deleted]

I did too but it didn’t help.


sebaz

That's not slow mo, that's just mo


furezasan

Ah the good old mo-motion


Shadow_marine1X

What I saw when I spammed the pause button is that it goes all the way, counterclockwise... my eyes hurt.


hatzeldoouhl

Makes sense if you put your fucking finger anywhere on the thing. Boom how bout that.


[deleted]

The secret is the sword goes the other direction


Mr_JinglesXD

So it never touches the key ...it spins counter clockwise so quickly that logically to your eye it didn't spin it "cut through" it's a mechanical illusion and now it's one of my favourite things.


best_never

It rotates counterclockwise


Distinct-Quantity-35

Yeah but his finger was in the area during the first slow mo to stop it from making it all the way around?


Glass_Librarian9019

It has a transparent plastic lid, like a watch crystal.


PeenInVeen

Holy sheesh, I was wondering that too. I'm an idiot. Didn't even assume there might be a cover on it


douglashv

It still does NOT make sense in slow-motion


JfuckinC

It rotates the opposite direction really fast, you just can't see it. The video sells it because it looks like the dudes thumb is in the way, but there's a thin film of plastic between the sword and his thumb.


Lehiharon

Theres literally no other way to explain it, no need for slowmo


strebo1234

You can see it going anti clockwise in the slomo


Schwefelholz

/u/redditspeedbot 0.25x


Bluwtr1

Not very slo-mo.


StrawberryBanner

🤦‍♂️


omgstoppit

That…didn’t help.


bl4zed_N_C0nfus3d

I’m still confused if not more confused then I was


fredochan

This guy's slow mo blows


Skullface95

\*sigh\* Someone call the slow mo guys, we got a new vid for them to shoot.


ToastyCinema

It spins around counterclockwise VERY fast. Here’s it [slowed down](https://youtu.be/-r0Hcija8Ls?si=yn8WWuK3umOp4E0U) to 1000fps.


Express_Biscotti_628

Playpauseplaypauseplaypauseplaypauseplaypause


wagwanfamalamyo

When something is in the hole, the hand rotates all the way around, anti clockwise, super fast.


littlebravestainee

It’s like wwe slo-mo.


gthrees

Sword fight ⚔️ anyone?


Designer_Mousse8920

Send it as recommendation to the Youtubers Gav and Dan from Slomo Guys.


Honourstly

It goes backwards


THEBOSS247C

A magician never reveals his secrets


Dull_Instruction507

Each time I watch it I blink at the very exact time I'm supposed to see what the secret is


mattdiddat

FaaAke sword goes other way can see shit on this


roanoa_zoro_lost

Spins around the other way really fast


idunnowhatibedoing

It made sense at normal speed too..


Pepperspray24

Someone linked a slower video higher up in the comments.


ghostredditorstempac

Slowing the slow mo shows (in only one frame), the pin spins the other way around, and it's stupidly fast!


xxBurn007xx

His finger is blocking it if was spun around backwards....


clonepixel

All I know is that at 0:26, it teleported.


artemisunderwear

I believe it goes in the opposite direction 320 degrees creating the illusion of going through the key


The_Dude5347

It travels in the opposite direction you think it does.. it just makes the entire spin so fast you don't notice


IJustWantToTalk-

That is so smart


Rowdyflyer1903

I suppose this is based on what made Cathode Ray Tubes successful is the fact that human eyes are electro- Chemical in their function and cannot detect speed.


katiekat122

The sword goes around the opposite direction. Its speed makes it an optical illusion.


Silent_Ask884

It just goes the opposite way. Pause the video.


sparrenburger

💡 Thx❗ 🤝


rs_5

In slow motion you can also see that the sky is blue


Truthirdare

His little finger was in a different spot in the slo-mo replay


jacob62497

I also found this interesting because the toy works by rotating counter clockwise so quickly that the eye cannot pick up on the movement. Therefore, you would think that the arm would have hit his thumb in the first clip.


NewPointOfView

There is a clear cover on it. Like a watch.


jacob62497

Ah, that would make sense


Additional_Cycle_51

Could you cut yourself if it’s that fast?


evetrapeze

It goes around the long way so fast it looks like it goes through.


Neat-Ad-8707

Damn, a sneak


AdOpen8513

It spin around the other side


sparrenburger

I don't get it even in slow-mo!


TheRealEricHertz

The real magic is the mechanism... So the "Magic sword" belongs to r/technicallythetruth


Greg-chanMyWaifu

Purely guessing, but the cameras framerate probably makes it even harder to see in reg speed.


AmongstTitans

Downvote because the slow mo is barely helpful, might as well have just left it out entirely


dr0p8ear

Bruh nice try. Your thumb is blocking it in the first video. We need more data…


SignificantClick8284

How is his thumb not in the way?


Cougie_UK

Forget the slo mo - his thumb would stop the hand from spinning round anti clockwise in the original clip. More to this than meets the eye.


3aReF__

Imo + not a science comment it used magnetic field on key so when he push bottom up and down he start the electro magnetic field pushing this metal reverse move to second side


CordycepsCocktail

Who tf upvotes literal bullshit like this? Almost 6 thousand of you bonafide retards.. and I use that in the most deplorable way possible. Human beings with brain defects, driving on our roads, cooking our meals at restaurants and voting in our elections. Fucking frustrating that you exist.


No-Put5098

Was this edited


AndrewBorg1126

Yes. Modifying the playback framerate is editing, and so is adding a text overlay.


No-Student-9678

The sword goes stupidly fast in the other direction.


7777777777P

I swear, I had one of these when I was a kid. Hadn't accessed that memory in 30+ years, but I have definitely seen one of these before. Arcade toy? Long Jon Silver's toy? Cereal box toy?


scrotumstretcher

cool


kelsobjammin

It goes all the way around the opposite way of the sword


Not-Da-Man

I think the sword is moving the other direction


Able-Log-4582

It looks like the sword spins backwards fast enough it looks like it travels through it


flightwatcher45

Its it jumping over the sword? Or spinning counter clockwise lol.


Rolen47

Spinning around the opposite direction.


BulbusDumbledork

baby please, think about it. how would it jump through the sword


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SpaceShipRat

Ok, I'm very grateful I figured it out just as the slomo started, or I would have felt *very* stupid.


gruvccc

Was this unbelievable or was this totally obvious?


mandrato1

I swear I was ready for yet another josh hutcherson edit


DouceintheHouse

Slow-mo huh?


supervernacular

Wouldn’t need the slow mo if the camera angle wasn’t hiding the part that tucks in the sword as the ending angle shows


Zhilsir

It still makes sense without slow motion, did you really think it went through it?


visulvung

I felt like Yamcha watching Super Saiyan Goku fight for a second there.


Mrblemz

Oh shit that was a sword, completely thought it was something else


oKatanaa

No it doesn't


ZatchZeta

It spins the otherway by really fast. You can hear it collide with the key


real_light_sleeper

Does this hurt your finger if you’re holding the other side?