My most vivid memory of the machine at the Ontario Science Centre was a discovery that me and my friends made during a school trip. If you rubbed your feet on the carpet then touched the machine's speaker, the static charge would trigger it without having to push the button.
Unlike doing it the "proper" way, this method allowed a re-trigger in mid speech. By having more than one person trigger the machine rapidly in succession using static, we got a good laugh hearing it stutter "co-co-coff-coffee".
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My most vivid memory of the machine at the Ontario Science Centre was a discovery that me and my friends made during a school trip. If you rubbed your feet on the carpet then touched the machine's speaker, the static charge would trigger it without having to push the button.
Unlike doing it the "proper" way, this method allowed a re-trigger in mid speech. By having more than one person trigger the machine rapidly in succession using static, we got a good laugh hearing it stutter "co-co-coff-coffee".