After more than 60 years spent falling down staircases, the Slinky is finally getting to strut its stuff. For over three riveting minutes of gravity-powered determination, one enterprising metal ...

(CBS News) Since the dawn of time man has dreamed of two things. Being able to fly and having a slinky walk a treadmill for a really, really long time. And while the former came to fruition ages ago, ...

A video uploaded to YouTube by Californian user @abzde shows a slinky walking to epic music on a treadmill. The original video lasts three minutes and twenty seconds, as the slinky uses perpetual wave ...

There are few sights more satisfying than watching a Slinky descend a flight of stairs, and lining the toy up just right to walk down every step elicits the same feeling as sinking a three-pointer, a ...

Originally intended as a way to stabilize sensitive instruments on ships during World War II, the Slinky is quite simply a helical spring with an unusually good sales pitch. But as millions of ...

A spiraling legacy has fascinated and frustrated Lestine Lewis for decades. Today, 40 years after that first encounter, her quandary still remains: Just how do you get a Slinky to step down the stairs ...

And makes a slinkity sound? Unless you have somehow lived an existence free of a certain metal coil toy, you probably can figure out that this refers to the Slinky. The classic toy -- the one that's ...

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, I tip my hat to the most unlikely success story in the toy world. This item will end up in countless children’s Christmas stockings this December, just ...

A naval engineer accidentally discovered the Slinky in 1943. Richard James noticed a spring behaving unusually. This ...