Posts tagged with ‘magnets’

Buckyball magnets have been taken off the shelves by the feds

When Buckyball magnet toys first showed up a few years ago, they were the coolest science toy around. Little spherical rare earth magnets are just too much fun to arrange and fuck around with, but they’re also an extreme hazard to small children. As in, not just a swallowing hazard, but a “magnets painfully clamp your intestines together in a way that could be fatal without surgery” sort of way.

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Scientists create anti-magnets, how do they work?

Over the past couple years, science has developed cloaking systems for visible light, infrared and sonar. Now, scientists at the  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (that’s Barcelona, Spain, not Kansas) have been able to cloak magnetic fields using the magic of anti-magnets. Oooh, that sounds futuristic.

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Buckyballs gets squared off, turn into Buckycubes for more building fun

Last year, the neodymium magnet toy, Buckyballs were the hottest stocking stuffer during the holidays, because there’s just unlimited fun to be had in strong rare earth magnets, Now, Buckballs have evolved into cubes to make magnet building ven more… stable.

Get ‘em here for $25

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Scientists use magnets to force bacteria to build a tiny pyramid

Some theorize that the ancient Egyptians built their pyramids with human slave labor, but these days, we can just force bacteria to build pyramids for us. It’s one more step towards building a microscopic kingdom where we’ll all live in harmony with the gods.

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Is this woman a human magnet or just she just have really dirty skin?

Everybody has a very subtle magnetic field, but mother of one Brenda Allison claims that she’s actually magnetic. Obviously not in a sexual way, but in a “magnets how do they work” kind of way. Brenda claims that in addition to having small, light metal objects sticking to her skin for up to 45 minutes at a time, that she sets off car alarms, disrupts television sets and blows out light bulbs. 

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Magnetic silly putty makes silly putty awesome again

Technically, you can’t call it silly putty, it’s the Magnetic Thinking Putty and it’s silly putty-like silicone rubber embedded with bajillions of microscopic magnets and it’s one of the coolest toys I’ve ever seen. For $13.50, each tin comes with the putty and a super strong neodymium iron boron magnet for all sorts of magnetic fun right out of the box.

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