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  • All right, it's getting faster.

  • Whoa ... got it!

  • Now, I've tried this on a small fan, but at the end of this video, I'm gonna be using this guy.

  • We're gonna make this thing launch.

  • This is the fidget spinner.

  • Of course you've all heard of it.

  • I was trying to hold out as long as possible without getting one of these.

  • I didn't know what I would think of this thing.

  • Their kind of cool and addicting, and I hate it cause I spin it all day.

  • If you have one of these things, comment below what your longest spin is.

  • I would love to know.

  • I've heard people get like five to eight minutes spinning this thing.

  • I don't believe it, unless I have a really really crappy one.

  • I wish I'm able to make a fidget spinner with a counter on it to tell me how many times it's rotated.

  • That would be awesome.

  • Mine's a little crappy.

  • I got on Amazon and it's already broken.

  • I got one of the ten dollar ones or so.

  • Oh, and because I drop it all day long.

  • You know, the fidget spinner is totally like a helicopter propeller.

  • That's what I always think of when I spin this thing.

  • I'm like, it should fly out of my hands, and then I got thinking, OK let's add blades to it.

  • So I taped these duct tape blades to it, to the point where I can spin it with my hand without getting a paper cut.

  • Warning at home, you could get a paper cut doing this.

  • So my first model that I tested was all cardboard, and it didn't work.

  • The paper allows it to slice through the air but also get lift at the same time, and it's going fast enough that you actually don't need big props here.

  • So, there's three blades and it's gonna spin this way.

  • I'm not even very good at spinning this very fast, but ... you can already hear ... with a light spin how fast that's going,

  • and you've heard of people making these go like a couple hundred miles an hour apparently with air cans.

  • So I had to figure out the best aero dynamic shape to go on the fidget cube, and then I got my first fan.

  • Small, put to level three, and I'll show you, if I just place this in the center of the fan, it will start spinning on its own and it 'll actually try to get lift.

  • Now I'm gonna let it go so you can see here.

  • You'll see it starts picking up speed.

  • It could take a minute so we might cut out a little bit for you, but it's pretty incredible.

  • And you can see it starts wiggling around too.

  • So you could see it moving and it'll ... there it goes.

  • So it gives a little speed and then it messes up, and that's the problem.

  • This fan barely has gotten it above two inches and I think there's something here.

  • I don't know the science behind it.

  • We need a guy like Vsauce here, but it traps some sort of pressure here because of the curve,

  • and see that in that, in a fan that goes down, so this is like a cool landing pad that works out.

  • On my fan that, it allows it to go up to here, and then it always does this like you saw.

  • So, next we're gonna try this, and this is gonna be our next test.

  • It's even got a little landing pad here ... oops.

  • It got a little take off pad.

  • I can't remove it because it's screwed in.

  • I think it'd actually be better if it was off, but we're gonna try this next.

  • We're gonna fire this baby up on level three.

  • It's gonna get loud.

  • No, that was not getting air.

  • Nope.

  • So ... oh it's going!

  • And once it starts going up I'm gonna move the fan ... oh!

  • So have fun turning little fidget spinner toys into flying saucers.

  • And be careful of paper cuts, seriously.

  • Go getcha

All right, it's getting faster.

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