I heard it works best on skinny railings above large drops into rivers and such.

Does it energize and brake the vibrator thing somehow to induce rotation?

Looks like CGI. No vibration of any kind from the "mechanism".

I dunno, I can appreciate his style. If you've ever had to use one of those things all day long, day in and day out, especially on high things like ceilings and walls, it's exhausting as hell. The vibration just beats the hell out of you. Even when I was well used to it, I still had to use a work for five minutes, rest for five minutes pattern if I was going to keep it up.

"I have a couple stories too. Uh huh. Uh huh huh huh uh. So, every single one of us vibrates with a certain vibration. And so we either vibrate with a plant, a mineral or an animal."

I'm not even making a joke here. Just writing down what she said for posterity.

I did tape scratching in the 90s a lot, with modified reel to reel machine. The technique i used is harder, doesn't differ from vinyl scratching a lot (except in mine, i didn't cut the audio with fader but lifting the tape head from tape. THe end result surprised me, didn't expect it to work as at that point, had no knowledge of anyone ever using that (now i of course know that i was actually late..) It is a lot like vinyl, you still need to keep manually rotating the reels, working with the tape motor, needing to hit hits precisely without actually seeing where they are (easier with reel but there's a lot of tape in that reel and manually rotating against the motor and motion, makes the tape tighten so you can't use marks on the reels either...) Plus few handy effect like taking both reels and just turning them opposite directions, making the tape sits still but stretching, making all kinds of nice screeching sounds as the vibrations from the reel and the tape are heard, not the audio material on tape...)

Next i'm thinking of refitting old 5,4" floppy disk with analog tape head and maybe drawing the recordings on to to it, attaching the tape head to the end of my index finger.. Then i could get even closer to vinyl as there is something interesting on rotating sound sources.. Mainly it is the recording part that makes tape scratching interesting, taking a scratch sample, scratching it, resampling it again, using signal generators, designing harmonics etc.. Maybe that's next for me, using one hand to record and the other to play back.

Oh man, that moment when the board starts to wiggle.. Scary feeling and you can't stop that vibration once it starts, you know it's bail time.

I had to once bail from 50km/h back in the eighties, the moment my feet touched the ground on that speed, man... I took two strides and went over ten meters with each and they HURT, "BLAM, BLAM".. But staid upright, small scrapes from tunnel wall and very very sore soles. Didn't go for top speed after that one. Speed was measured as there were a very busy roadway parallel and the minimum speed is 50km/h in that point, usually more.. And we were passing cars... No helmets, no kneepads, just fingerless gloves, t-shirt and jeans. It is a small miracle i'm still alive.

They put these in mobile phones to make them vibrate.

Accurate for the most part. Quicksilver gets his powers from being a mutant, and can run at supersonic speeds (although later can go up to mach 10)

The flash gets his powers from.. well, they're still kinda explaining it, one got it from being struck by lightning, then a few after got theirs from the "Speed Force". The key difference is that the flash can run at light levels, and a couple of them are able to actually vibrate themselves so fast that their molecules don't interact with certain things around them, and they can pass through walls.

I disagree with the fake phone vibrating being strictly mental re-wiring, or an itch from somewhere else being misinterpreted (by mental re-wiring). I get the fake vibrating ring all the time, whether or not I have my phone in my pocket, but it always feels like it comes from the same area where my phone usually is.

Being an engineer, I have always thought that the high intensity electro-magnetic field generated during a phone's ring has somehow damaged the nerves/muscles in the area closest to the phone. And since electrical impulses control muscle movement and the nervous system, they are a little screwed up (damaged?). Or they get stuck on repeat.

You see, I don't get too many calls, I don't answer my phone every time, I could care less if it rings or not, so why would my brain be re-wired to desire my phone to ring, creating phantom rings? It seems to usually happen when those muscles are in use (not just sitting down).

I've had the fake phone vibration thing, I just assumed it was a muscle twitch. Weird to think it's actually a mental rewiring!

why dont they place the sensors down the wall that monitors vibrations in the ground. They could easily locate any tunnels as they are being built. Kind of like what fort knox has around its grounds to keep people from tunneling into it.

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Both of them measure the vibration in stationary objects due to noise. The laser measures it by distance, the video measures the vibration by sight. That's why the laser version works so much cleaner, the vibrations it measures are tiny compared to what can be 'seen' on a video, especially since video is (usually) only 60fps, but the laser may sample thousands of times per second. It's still neat, it just seems to be another version of a method that's been around a while, measuring the vibrations of objects to capture audio.

I'm a little disappointed. This thing really just uses water as the trigger for electronic music, the water doesn't vibrate on it's own like air in a normal instrument, which is what I expected from an 'under water organ'. This was just a water organ, and barely that in my eyes.

A vibrating camera, that sounds blurry to me!