Can candles replace the Wii sensor bar? (2 Truths & Trash)

Here's a list of questions answered in this video:
1. Can you fill a balloon with oxygen to make it float?
2. Can a fluorescent lightbulb be illuminated from a distance by a plasma globe?
3. Do magnets attract cheerios that are floating in water?
4. Can you replace the Wii sensor bar with candles and have it still work with the Wii remote?
5. Does a test tube of oil disappear in a container of that same oil?
6. Can a magnet disrupt the flow of water coming out of a metal faucet?
7. Do dry-erase marker drawings float on the sink?
8. Can you make a super-absorbent powder using sugar, salt and baking soda?
9. Does cotton candy dissolve in water?

[@JaDroppingScience]

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[@someguy6627]

This one was much harder than the others, Good Job!

[@revimfadli4666]

You truly did well with "not just reversed videos" BTW the faucet at 1:42 might be a good chance to collab with Steve Mould if you send it to him? 👀

[@Metal_Tao]

0:36 1 is fake af, Nitrogen yeah?

[@alexisjusthere]

Some people see a broken faucet, some people see an opportunity

[@lightningfan]

Fr

[@C.B.P.I-agent_472]

For what

[@duckpetter]

Hehehehaw

[@RafaelMunizYT]

@@C.B.P.I-agent_472 making this video

[@gammaboost]

We're the mario brothers?

[@ike8028]

For the second one I was like "I don't think that's how faucets work, but I don't know how he faked that..." lmao

[@JouvaMoufette]

Literally the same here. "That has to be the fake one, but how did he fake it?!"

[@Havron]

"That doesn't seem right, but I don't know enough about faucets to dispute it."

[@notwithouttext]

i laughed when he said "i don't know why my faucet is behaving like this but the magnet does not make it work" and i don't know what's funny about it but it is

[@acephantom903]

I was thinking that the flickering candle light wouldn't allow the wii to be stable, but no idea what could have caused the faucet to do that. I figured he might have had a different faucet than standard which allowed this to work as it seemed for feasible to me than the wii working.

[@cursorguy]

SAME!!

[@jareddawson4196]

I knew the cotton candy one because of a raccoon dropping his candy in a pond and he looked where’d his candy gone 😂

[@RayanfhoulaBR]

hooly fuck same

[@Axcyantol]

i knew it because i actually did it

[@younoa8783]

i think i saw it from daily dose

[@TheGameBoyss]

if it helps you sleep at night, he got more cotton candy and ate it :)

[@-TheBugLord]

I know because I used to suck on cotton candy when I ate it as a kid

[@venaautos]

I just realised the implication of the Wiimote and the candles, I always thought the infrared bar sent the input to the console, but going off the candle trick, the motion input is actually all processed inside the controller then sent to the Wii

[@ihateyoutubehandlees]

so the sensor bar really does have no purpose with the wires? I always thought this was fake because obviously the sensor bar connects to the wii, but I didnt know it was just directly the wii to the remote and vice versa, thats wack

[@wrpen99]

@@ihateyoutubehandlees The bar still needs to be plugged into something to be powered on, it just plugs into the wii for convenience sake.

[@underdrow5572]

I actually knew the candle trick beforehand, and it made complete sense, because I once played with a Wii without the sensor bar, and all the motion controls worked. Before that I thought the sensor bar was required even for swinging a bat in Wii Sports

[@WackoMcGoose]

...Except it _is_ the case, yes. The sensor bar is both an infrared transmitter _and_ bluetooth receiver. The video was faked by having the sensor bar plugged in offscreen, probably (the candles might still emit the right frequency and intensity of IR for the Wiimote to work, but it still has to broadcast to the sensor bar for the Wii to get the inputs). Fun side note: I always thought the Wiimote was the IR transmitter and the sensor bar was the IR camera tracking the Wiimote, not the other way around.

[@Yamgirly]

​​@@WackoMcGoose the sensor bar is literally just the ir transmitter, the remote had a Bluetooth connection to the Wii, which it uses for transmitting all other inputs, as well as sensor bar inputs. There's no reason it would also be connected to the sensor bar. Additionally, I'm not sure if Bluetooth technology from 10 years ago even allowed a device to connect to multiple Bluetooth receivers

[@Raoul1808.]

I remember going in the Dolphin Emulator (a Wii emulator) forums and seeing a lot of people mention “you can use 2 candles as a sensor bar replacement”. I didn’t understand what it meant until I accidentally got this once when playing under sunlight (the game worked as if the sun *was* the sensor bar). The Wii (and its remote) was way ahead of its time. Good job Nintendo

[@bastian_5975]

I would say it was exactly when it needed to be... Any later and smartphones would have crowded it out, and it couldn't have existed too much earlier... although motion controls definitely are at there best when used for aiming. I hope we see more stuff that uses more accurate motion controls...

[@luviana_]

​@@bastian_5975 You'd love VR shooters.

[@jerecakes1]

holy crap ok this episode's reaaaally tricky this time, props to you for making it better :D

[@bazs7163]

No it is not?

[@jerecakes1]

@@bazs7163 maybe, depends on the person and their stock on random physics and chemistry knowledge.

[@fletchercobb4398]

Not to me. I normally do crap with these but it seemed way easier this time. Probably our different backgrounds. Guess I like the reminder that not all humans are the same.

[@starship2023]

This video was Super easy for me beacuse I knew Nitrogen since is what 70% of air is, is lighter than Oxygen so a 95% Oxygen balloon would more heavy than a 70% nitrogen and 25% oxygen atmosphere

[@maxyang487]

⁠bro isn’t oxygen air? It’s just the ballon weighting it down

[@jayman1462]

Yay! I'm always excited to see a new one of these in my feed. Never stop making these @JaDropping Science!

[@wulfywulfynrir1296]

This is definitely your best one yet! The first one is the only time ive had absolutely no idea which it could be (i vaguely felt like 2 was the most realistic, but i was completely stumped between 1&3) And i probably would have struggled ojn the second set if i hadnt literally had to find replacements for my sensor bar when i couldnt afford a new one 😅

[@Below-Zero]

I won, you are making these harder good on you

[@dogeking5811]

GoOd On YoU mAtE

[@oscardanson7127]

Ye only got 1/3 might as well just guess randomly

[@shaxxmeer]

i knew most of these going in, but if i didn't this'd been crazy hard! that break was worth it, good job!

[@TigerTigerII]

Oo, I knew that Wiimote one! We couldn't get ours to function right one day and were trying to figure out why...turns out it was tracking thelights on the Christmas tree instead of the sensor bar.

[@billcipheer]

Wow! These got much better! I got 2/3, only getting the faucet one wrong, congrats on always improving your content to make it more entertaining for us!

[@TesserId]

That crazy faucet was hilarious.

[@SuperSilverSerpent]

Getting all these right makes me realize how many science trick/life hack videos I’ve seen online over the years. The wii remote, the cheerio, the marker in the sink… I had seen all of these done before years ago on KZbin

[@milesparris4045]

The letters floating down the drain almost got me, but I've seen the polymer stuff in water and knew that's what it was.

[@richardl6751]

At 0:23 The Cheerio in not pulled by the magnet. The water is repelled and forms a dip in the water that the Cheerio sinks into.

[@kori228]

already knew about the Wiimote one, even tried it myself ages ago. works with flashlights as well

[@sinful9347]

Absolutely insane, I finally got all three of them right for the first time! It definitely helped since I already knew baloons filled with oxygen doesn't float, that Wii remote hack, dry erase markers ink floats on water, and that sugar and salt wouldn't absorb water like that 😅 I eliminated alot of answers just from common knowledge, I feel like Jimmy Neutron, gotta blast!

[@eggsnham.]

Cool pfp :p

[@sinful9347]

@@eggsnham. awe, thanks! Yours is too!

[@redfailhawk]

I got the first one wrong, but only because the light bulb thing seemed ludicrous. the wii one is something I haven't done personally but a friend has. He actually found that you could make it more disability friendly by doing this as you could "calibrate" it for shaky hands.

[@_TriGN]

how? i just knew that O2 is heavier than N2 thus it couldnt work

[@ob_stacle]

@@_TriGN not everyone is a nerd like you

[@_TriGN]

@@ob_stacle :( sowwy for knowing the first 10 elements

[@Wendigo-VR]

I was about to say, the magnet and faucet one looked like it couldve fixed alot of problems, like if its pointing at the wrong angle, etc.

[@vansh-20]

Please never stop this series!!

[@m2pt5]

Got them all right! I already knew the fluorescent bulb, the wiimote, and the cotton candy ones for sure. (I knew the wiimote because I have one but no wii; I used to use a jury rigged sensor bar for wii emulation on my PC, but I later picked up a third party sensor bar made for PC use, complete with wiimote connection.)

[@hanselmartinez762]

This series has so much potential!

[@tomikun8057]

1:38 HOW DO YOU CONNECT THE CANDLES TO THE CONSOLE??

[@titoucarotte5238]

You don't, the only reason you plug the thing in is for it to have electricity to emit light, the controller does all the fancy math to know where it's looking relatively to the infrared lights

[@CETravelGames]

2/3 Got the first one wrong because I wasn't listening properly Got the second one right because I knew about the Wii thing Strangely knew the last one because I remember using those special bath markers many years ago

[@malvinmalvin]

Two out of three. These are getting harder.

[@enderyu]

yeah. I did not expect the Wii to actually work

[@cassiuspeter9673]

I normally have a really good track record with these, but I only got 2 out of three this time around. 1. I might have cheated on this one, because I looked up a periodic table, but once I did, it was clear that oxygen was heavier than nitrogen, which is what air mostly is. I knew cheerios have a fair bit of iron in them, so I believed the magnet thing, and while I didn't know about the flourescent thing, the fact that the base of the bulb was fully visible meant that it was unlikely to be fake. 2. This is the one I got wrong. I thought that the wiimote and sensor bar were communicating somewhat, so when he brought the candles in, I thought "oh come on, you're not even trying anymore". Boy was I wrong. Also, a rotating steel valve is one of the most believable fakes I've seen on this channel. 3. I love cotton candy, so I knew it shrinks like crazy when it gets wet. The dry erase one looks a bit suspicious, but something about it felt concievable. Compare that to #2, which would change everything I knew about cooking. Plus, the ingredients mix didn't look THAT much like the diaper stuff.

[@BrainStormzFTC]

Yeah, the "sensor bar" is probably Nintendo's biggest lie. It's just two IR LEDs, each Wiimote has an IR camera at the top that looks for these points and uses that to calculate the cursor position. The Wiimotes connect to the Wii with mostly-standard Bluetooth, you can even connect your Wiimote to most computers, which is handy for playing emulated Wii games.

[@CrashCubeZeroOne]

"Since Oxygen is less dense than air" *Imma have to stop you right there* 3/3. The previous two episodes destroyed me, good to have some wins

[@CrashCubeZeroOne]

@@CorrectMyGrammarPls oh, I brainfarted. I meant to write air, but my mind was like "ballons = helium"

[@Left4Cake]

By the way the distance of the candles don't have to be the same distance but the distance will change the scale of your pointer.

[@BinglesP]

Thought this was going to be about Wii software or something, ended up learning about some pretty cool science. I think I like that better in this case.

[@staticostrich4689]

Some of the most fun videos on the internet! Keep up the good work.

[@sans5955]

omfg i always thought the sensor bar was detecting where the wiimote was pointed and sent that to the Wii via the cable you plug it into

[@-delilahlin-1598]

I feel like I’m cheating since I’m not working from first principles, I just have seen a lot of these experiments already.

[@FatAlbertFanClub]

Hey I got them all right, I knew my knowledge of obscure video game console facts would come in handy at some point.

[@galliumgames3962]

Plasma globes can also power nearby unplugged radios, which is freaky as hell if this happens by accident and you don’t know this can happen.

[@Searchin4keys]

1:56 man took alphabet soup to another level

[@JuliansMarbleZone]

I did the candles before I got the bar.

[@luk4aaaa]

the wiimote candle one is one I've tried and it's really fun. The Wii had some really neat technology for it's time.

[@Heightren]

I thought the wiimote worked the other way round. The more you learn

[@SilaDrenja]

1:49 water is diamagnetic (even though only slightly), so strong enough magnet could manipulate it (only it would need to be a very very strong magned to make the level of manipulation as in the video. (you can test that out by just simply charging a ruler or hairbrush with static electricity and bringing it close to tap water)

[@n0ame1u1]

The first one is fake, since nitrogen (which makes you most of the air) is actually lighter than oxygen

[@Bruh-est]

Bro these are super nice you should reupload them separately as shorts youd get way more views

[@OptimusPhillip]

I already did Round 1 in short form, and correctly guessed that 1 was trash, because if oxygen were less dense than air, the oxygen in our atmosphere wouldn't be concentrated so close to the surface. For Round 2, I've seen 1 many times before, and I know that 2 is at least true in principle, so I'm going with 3 as the trash. As for Round 3, I don't think dry erase ink has any meaningful interaction with water, so 1 seems sus. 2 feels like it _might_ work because of how dough works, though I'm not 100% sure. And 3 definitely makes sense considering that serving of cotton candy consists of maybe a good few teaspoons worth of granulated sugar. So I _think_ 1 is trash. (Well damn, that's actually a well-done illusion.)

[@KnightRaymund]

All similar to my thoughts. Last one was tricky.

[@eggsnham.]

This one was tough! Well done

[@StevenRogers268]

I was wrong every time 😂 I love this channel though. I am too open minded, like “maybe he solved the way to do this!?!”

[@doublex85]

You can use a phone camera to see the infrared LEDs on a Wii sensor bar. It's how I diagnosed a relative's sensor bar as having broken LEDs on one side.

[@JamesWestMusicMan]

Can someone further explain the wii remote one?? I always thought the censor bar was connected to the wii so the remote can work... so how does this work???

[@sinful9347]

Think of it like a TV remote sensor, the infrared sensor on top of the remote looks for, well, infrared light, which the Sensor bar provides, using the two lights on each of the bar the remote is able to track the position of where you are pointing it at, however the difference is that you connect the Wii remote to the Wii system, so the sensor bar doesn't actually send this data, it's the wii remote itself that uses that wireless connection to send it's position relative to the screen. Theoretically, you can use legitmately anything that can produce two areas of infrared light, like two candles! The only reason why the sensor bar needs to be plugged in is to produce the light, wireless sensor bars exist and only need batteries to work! No connection the system needed 😊

[@stego-]

@@sinful9347 lol if i only knew how a wii remote worked. this channel is both bullshit and fascinating at the same time

[@JooshMaGoosh]

The balloon one had me going wtf that makes no sense till I realized I had already made sense of it.

[@jayceprater2080]

I love this series😄

[@qtcquestionbloc4440]

I'm not risking a house fire just to play Wii with candles in my room.

[@bastian_5975]

2:00 not enough context shown. The tiny amount of water poured in as shown could easily be absorbed, and flower alone does absorb quite a bit of water.

[@interiorjay]

That Wii video bugged me so much! Mainly because I have an old Wii Mini that my family bought when I was a lot younger... I need to check for updates on it again and link it to our new internet.

[@hannanathan564]

But, I remember the wii remote working perfectly fine without the sensor at all. Like, I specifically remember throwing mine away and it working perfectly fine.

[@YourFavoriteCommie]

I'd have been skeptical of the dry erase letters floating on water but I saw James from the Action Lab do that trick once, so I figured out it was the water absorbing mixture that was fake.

[@RobloxGuestNews]

Candles or other light sources that produce infrared radiation can work as a sensorbar, but you still need a sensorbar plugged into the Wii for it to register

[@melee9183]

I knew the wii one was right because one time at a smash tournament we didn't have a sensor bar so some guy pulled out his lighter. My life was changed.

[@stanzacosmi]

got all of them right, and actually for a while, I used the sun as my wii sensor bar

[@tl1326]

i remember seeing a dude crush up a box of “cheerios” (i have never learned how to spell this product) and use a magnet to attract all the iron in it

[@Will8350]

Me too, And people were getting confused and mad at cheerios for providing an essential mineral🤣

[@christopherg2347]

Round 1: I remembered that we humans are on the ground, so Oxygen rising would kinda be a huge problem for us. Round 2: I guessed wrong. Interesting turbulent flow you have there. Round 3: A second wrong one

[@papyrussemi2848]

c'mon, every man and his mii knows the wii candle hack!

[@smoogey]

I knew my weirdly huge amount of useless nintendo facts would come in handy one day

[@djk1288]

Darn, two outta three. I honestly thought you were using an editing trick with that fluorescent bulb!

[@PoeticChick4Ever]

The 1st truth on round 3 was very cool

[@Flarefishytheoriginal]

1. The cheerio 1:35 the faucet 2:27 the salt sugar mix

[@evehavican7331]

Yay I got all of them right Also you should really check your filter for that sink I think it needs a cleaning

[@meatsauce12]

for the first one i was just like "if oxygen was less dense we'd all be dead!"

[@zym5435]

forgot to pause in time on the first, but second one the wii sensor bar sounds familiar, and ive actually seen the oil/test tube thing at my local see science center, its rly neat! so presubably 3 is the fake edit for next one: guessing the salt/sugar mix absorbing water think is fake, since i don't see how the mix really makes a difference. im guessing the dry erase marker floats in the water bc its an oil based ink and therefore doesn't mix in the water, and the cotton candy one makes perfect sense actually, sugar dissolves/melts in the water

[@itsmehere1]

I knew the Wii bar one was real because I have had to use it before lmao.

[@teamcybr8375]

1:15 Oh hey, glass repair fluid!

[@nathanstafford8412]

Wasn't sure if the Wii remote one was true since the sensor bar has a cord that connects to the Wii, but I guess I was wrong

[@jpting_]

I assumed the balloon was fake, had no clue about the other two. I'd seen the candle trick on the wiimote done too many times to be just a ruse, the test tube was also something I've seen done in the past, and there was no way the valve in the faucet would be loose enough for a magnet to affect it. I've also seen people make stick figures move with the marker and water trick, had no clue whether the powder mixture would work, and then I knew the cotton candy one was true simply off of how cotton candy is made in the first place. So all-in-all I'd say I did decently

[@shinyrayquaza9]

the candle trick works, even a good way if your sensor bar is broken or using it on pc

[@amine6178]

Got these all right for once

[@supersophisticated9943]

I only got the last one wrong. :( Scientist, BTW. I suspected it might've been the mixture that was wrong, but I couldn't help but feel like it WOULD be DECENTLY absorbent. I now realize that probably made no sense. (I thought it was 3 despite better judgement.)

[@robertbrazier5097]

I immediately thought, "bruh, if oxygen is more dense than air, then how to am I breathing"

[@EriksGarbage]

1:10 More importantly, why is your Wii in 4:3 mode when you have a widescreen TV?

[@kanuos]

Round 2 man, it's impossible. I swear everyone would answer 1 because 1. It looks fake 2. This is a pretty well-known phenomenon so it's easy to rule out 3. My thought process went like this: "Is this fake? It does not look like it would be easy to fake"

[@TheGreenViewer456]

but anyway the fact that you put *ONE* SINGLE CHEERIO IN *WATER* is illegal in MY EYES. guess we’ve committed cereal treason but differently.

[@TheGreenViewer456]

no trying to offend you.

[@machfassett5749]

I thought the flour, sugar, and salt one was real because flour, sugar, and salt, when combined with water, makes dough and I wasn't paying attention to the actual video playing. My thought was "Well, yeah, dough IS pretty absorbant of water..."

[@yususbruh]

Magnet one obviously! Cheerios is bot metal!

[@klikkolee]

My first impression of the wii bar one was that it would be fake for two reasons: 1: I wasn't expecting 2 IR beacons to be enough. 2: it's called a sensor bar, and I wasn't expecting Nintendo to straight up lie But the faucet one in the same round was very definitely fake since there shouldn't be any kind of valve in that part of the faucet, so process of elimination means that the Wii is weird. In retrospect, given how terrible the wii pointer was, I was probably setting my standards too high. It doesn't try to get a firm idea of where it is and which way it's facing. Nintendo seems to just care that if you move or tilt the remote in a direction, the cursor moves in that direction. And one beacon conceivably could have been enough for such a low standard of tracking.

[@kyleeames8229]

0:33 The balloon one is fake. Oxygen is actually the denser of the primary constituents of Earths atmosphere. 1:38 The faucet one is the least convincing, but I’m a little stumped by this one because I know water to be ever so slightly diamagnetic. I’m sure you’d need a much, much stronger magnet to produce a noticeable effect though. 2:12 The super absorbent mixture shown in #2 is the fake. Admittedly I deduced this by process of elimination. Also, the recipe is very dubious; what with almost everything you put in there being water soluble.

[@idonthaveausername.8035]

Round 1-Balloon Round 2-Faucet Round 3-Dry Erase Marker

[@jumentoqueanima]

This was kinda easy Lmao. Nice video.

[@tricky778]

The Wii sensor bar doesn't detect which way the remote is pointing, the Wii remote detects in which direction is the sensor bar.

[@hhgnggnjngnmnnh5291]

i got the first one right purely by remembering from my ochem class that oxygen can make 2 bonds while nitrogen can make 3, and since the atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and the two elements are in the same group, the atmosphere is less dense than oxygen lol

[@revimfadli4666]

1:42 future Steve Mould video collab maybe?

[@NetRolller3D]

There's probably some debris caught on the perlator, interfering with the flow.

[@foxhazhax4845]

I knew it was the balloon because nitrogen, in group 15, precedes oxygen, group 16, on the periodic table. It doesn't make sense for a heavier gas to float a balloon in an atmosphere comprised mostly of a lighter gas.

[@Gatorboy5678]

2:19 Okay now *DRINK IT* 😂

[@You-are-definitely-right-but]

the third one was ez since I already heard about the first trick and as a Cotton Candy Connoisseur I knew the third trick would work

[@goddogking]

Honestly surprised by the light bulb. Loving this series!

[@Ape_YTP]

How'd you get the candles to connect to the wii?

[@grbggaming6885]

"The salt was Purell-ly a distraction"

[@this-is-ultimate-channel]

1 and 2 was incorrect. Cereal isn't attracted to magnet. The reason why it seems to is that water is diamagnetic so magnet create tiny bump in the water.

[@BoogerbrainT_T]

Bro bought a wii tv just for this vid

[@epicboi46]

I got the first round wrong since I already watched the shorts version, but I got the second round right since I guessed that it was either 2 or 3, and the third round since I guessed that it was either 1 or 2.

[@ob_stacle]

you have to pick one

[@ShadowPrime69]

wait, how does the candle track the wiimote if its not connected to the wii?

[@Meme-pg5tw]

Guessed all but the 2nd one right because i thought the sensor had to be plugged in