Don't know how to surprise a work colleague or what practical and aesthetic souvenir to buy for a husband or other loved one? Turn your eyes towards desktop "perpetual motion machines" - pendulums.
On the one hand, this is a real trinket. It may even seem at first glance that buying such a thing will turn out to be a useless throwing of money down the drain. However, you should not immediately blame the desktop pendulum for the absence of any necessary functions. Moreover, this is an erroneous accusation. Such souvenirs often decorate the desktop of quite serious people. And these people, you see, will not spend their finances on any nonsense. Therefore: anti-stress desktop pendulums are not useless.
The benefits of the anti-stress mechanism
They relieve general nervous tension. They allow you to slightly distract yourself from solving a serious problem if necessary.deadlocked problem. And there is also an opposite paradoxical, positive moment from such a toy. The fact is that the desktop pendulum helps to focus on the problem and find an unusual and correct solution. This souvenir has such an effect - a universal relaxing effect, and no less universal effect of concentration. Some of these office toys are supplemented with batteries, thanks to these batteries, the anti-stress pendulum moves. However, there are models that do not have power. They only work through real physical reactions.
From Newton
One of the most popular and frequently encountered are, probably, anti-stress pendulums "Newton's Balls". Only at the end of the twentieth century, a similar mechanism began to be used for relaxation. In addition to relaxation at home, balls are used in psychotherapy. Anti-stress pendulum "Newton's Balls" can work without using a battery, which, in fact, it does. What does this interesting souvenir look like? It consists of a stable stand. Several metal balls are suspended on a thin fishing line in one row. To "start" the perpetual motion machine, move the ball slightly to the side and disengage the fingers, releasing it. The ball will begin to beat on the neighboring one after a certain period of time. And that one will pass the power to the next one. And so along the chain, these iron balls will "mirror" the first one. Of course, this engine will not show you real endless motion. The duration will depend on the sizeballs. The little ones stop their actions faster. The larger the balls, the longer they will distract their owner from heavy thoughts.
Sand drawings
The anti-stress sand pendulum is so named because it can draw on the sand. Yes, don't be surprised. The pendulum itself has a sharp tip (like a sharpened pencil) and is attached to an arrow bar. At the bottom, at the foot of the plank, is a small and shallow container filled with pure white sand. Slightly swinging the pendulum itself, you can observe the appearance of extraordinary patterns on the sand for some time. Swinging steadily and touching the tip of the sand, such a device can give not only calm to the nerves, but also pleasure to the eyes.
Many different pendulums are offered for sale by souvenir shops and shops. Choose the one that the donee likes.
