FlipNetik are mesmerizing desk toys with a strange power all their own

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/20/flipnetik-are-mesmerizing-desk-toys-with-a-strange-power-all-their-own.html

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What is the little hole for? It looks like a reset button. What happens when you reset it? What happens if you don’t? Does anything happen at all?

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It’s amazing how the BoingBoing shop can sell knockoffs before the original Kickstarter products have even shipped. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2107879482/flipo-fliptm-pocket-sized-kinetic-skill-toy?ref=user_menu

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Came to ask the exact same thing. WE NEED TO KNOW!!!

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Then you wake up and it turns out that the last 4 years were just a weird, disturbing nightmare.

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A Kickstarter? But there are plenty of these things available already. And at a fraction of the Kickstarter or BBShop prices.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=kinetic+flip+toy

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…and the ones on amazon also have a hole

Someone’s drop shipping

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And profiteering.

(I still need to know what the hole is for. Bit did not see a hole in any of the pics of that one.)

Oddly, that Amazon item has the same logo on the side as the Kickstarter one (flipa flop) and uses the same video.

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Amazon reviews said the hole was for a key chain

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Aha. At 0:18 (you may need to tap “.” and “,” for the exact frame), you’ll see 2 holes on a corner. Lanyard attachment points. Sorry no reset.

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Do you want Demonseed in your office? 'cause that’s how you get Demonseed in your office.

Thought that’s not all bad; it does come with a Gerrit Graham included.

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BUT!!! In a twist worthy of PKD, you have to live through the whole, exact thing all over again.

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