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Title: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: PWOKristy on September 16, 2013, 11:56:39 AM
Hello,
Came across this today. Really cute idea from this inventor. http://www.officeplayground.com/Butterfly-in-a-Jar-Blue-P1888.aspx Different colored butterflies in a jar! The butterflies are fake. And it's controlled by a wire. It's powered by batteries. Flutters around the jar and flutters its wings against the glass too some times.
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: RedwoodsMama on September 16, 2013, 03:34:31 PM
You are right Kristy, so much nicer than a real butterfly,not worrying about the poor thing dying, Right as I was watching the video link, a white butterfly flew past my computer. ;) RWM :cat-hug:
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: barrettgazzy on September 17, 2013, 07:48:08 AM
They look quite cool think they have been out a couple years now :) butterfly does look quite realistic in the vids i saw when they first popped up on YouTube
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: PWOKristy on September 17, 2013, 10:55:45 AM
Aah a couple of years ah? That's nice to know. And you can say that again. ^__^
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: mweed on September 17, 2013, 12:29:51 PM
A store near us had lightning bugs in a jar for summer, and now has bats in a lantern for halloween.
The lightning bugs were quite real looking. It was basically a yellow-green LED on the end of the wire that would fade in and out and move around inside the jar. At night in the dark seemed very realistic. In bright sunlight it looks cheap and fake. To power the led, it has a pretty visible black wire instead of the thin mono-filament the butterfly has.
Now the bat is just pathetic. Seems like a cheap knock-off. It's a small toy-looking rubber bat, and it spins very fast as it bounces around, and there's a blinking white LED in the base to add a "strobe light" effect. You can only tell it's a bat when it stops moving, and then it just a bat hanging in mid-air.
The butterfly is the best looking of them all IMHO.
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: PWOKristy on September 18, 2013, 10:40:13 AM
Hmmmm I wonder if my local stores will have that bat one for Halloween. I wouldn't mind getting a visual of it.
Title: Re: Butterfly in a Jar
Post by: mweed on September 18, 2013, 11:48:57 AM