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OhGizmo!: Private: Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand - As Close As You Harry Potter Fans Are Going To Get To A Real Magic Wand

  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Correction: "that giant metal sphere contraption" is a Tesla Coil
  • andrew liszewski · 1 year ago
  • laseyboy · 1 month ago
    They are not the same! Google both. A Van de Graaff generator MUST have a sphere on the top to operate correctly and it generates electricity by physically rubbing a brush on a rotating band of something like silk. Just like rubbing a glass rod with a piece of silk to produce static electricity.
    A Tesla coil uses electomagnetic coils set up to resonate with each other and a pre-existing source of electricity.
    Both produce lighting like electrical discharges.
  • sorin · 12 months ago
    How can you buy this toy? Unable to find it on Ebay or amazon. Thanks!
  • DEvok · 11 months ago
    www.thinkgeek.com has this.
  • Hussey · 11 months ago
    This item is actually very cool, they also sell it at the chicago children's museum store at navy pier. You can play with it in the store as well. It takes a minute to get used to working it, but is alot of fun.