Fun Fly Stick

It's been a quiet time on the Shiny Stuff blog - bad. But this is only because the new year so far has been dedicated to amassing a huge stack of the new, weird and wonderful - Great!

Take the Fun Fly Stick for example. Finally a magic wand you can point at stuff and make it fly! Ok, so you won't be able to make your little sister fly round the room but still, flying objects with no string attached = pretty cool!

So how does it work? Well inside the 'wand' is a little Van de Graaff generator. For those not familiar with this little bundle of joy from the Physics Lab, a Van de Graaff generator creates an electrostatic charge. So when you point your wand at the shiny metallic flying toys included in the pack, they become charged and are then repelled by the end of the wand. Point the wand and the object floats gently away.

Not only can you have weird metal shapes flying overhead, but you can do other cool stuff too. Point the end of the wand at a stream of water running from a tap and watch the flow be pulled sideways by the wand, (careful not to get the wand wet though - that'll mean an end to all the fun). We also found poking the wand into a bowl of Rice Crispies causes a rather fun explosion of flying puffed rice.

There's lots of cool electrostatic fun to be had with the Fun Fly Stick and it's all done by the power of Science - ooooh!

Fun Fly Stick - £24.99 from ShinyShack.com