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Wow what a complete useless feat of engineering, I'm glad there's people out there working on the tough problems though.
It's a silly/playful example, but a low friction, high momentum flywheel could have a lot of engineering uses. His methods and research are likely very transferable - so it sounds silly, but it's probably pretty good.
Something like that doesn't exist outside of fidget spinners? I wouldn't think fidget spinner would be on the cutting edge of research for a thing that has thousands of industrial applications but I'm sure this dude has it cracked.
I mean this historically is pretty common..
The first steam engine was a toy. Speak and spell/furby shit massively helped AI. The Gameboy pushed LED screens further.