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Ugly Gravity Stools Created With a Giant Magnet
These eyesores aren't going to take home any design awards for style. But I bet that physicists and other science types would love to have one in the office because they're created by extruding plastic...
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Magnus Is One Beautiful Low-Profile Magnetic iPad Stand
If Apple had designed an iPad 2 stand that didn't double as a protective cover, I'm inclined to believe it would look exactly like Ten One Design's Magnus, which uses a strong neodymium magnet to make...
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A Scrabble Magnet Set Is Your Excuse to Spend More Time in the Kitchen
What makes anything better? Food. Wait. That wasn't the answer I was looking for. Oh! Magnets! So if you turn Scrabble magnetic and slap the tiles onto your fridge, you can make excuses that you're...
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A Magnetic Metal Ball Is the Secret To This Designer Lamp’s Flexibility
Move over Luxo. Giulio Iacchetti has designed an incredibly flexible table and floor lamp that would put Pixar's mascot to shame. And like anything awesome, the Magneto's capabilities come from the...
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How Do the Mysterious Floating Balls On This Watch Work: Sorcery?
If you want to slap a hefty price tag on a watch, fine craftsmanship and precious jemstones don't cut it anymore. You need a gimmick, like a sprinkling of moon dust, or the magical floating balls in...
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Incredible 3-Year-Old Survives Eating 37 Rare-Earth Magnets
Payton Bushnell is the adorable three-year-old you see above. She's also the incredibly fortunate young lady who swallowed an astonishing 37 (THUR-TEEE SEVV-UNNN) rare-earth magnets lived to blabber...
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Dumbest New Trend: Kids Eating Magnets
A few days ago, we told you about an imperious young girl who ate 37 rare earth magnets and lived. It was pretty astounding, frankly. But apparently kids everywhere are eating the damn things, and as a...
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Your Old Smart Cover Might Not Work With the New iPad
The new iPad is a lot like the old iPad, except when it comes to Smart Covers. Apparently some old Smart Covers and third-party cases aren’t working with the new iPad. The reason? Polarity matters now....
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The World’s Most Powerful Non-Destructive Magnet Screams Like a Banshee
You don't normally associate any kind of sound with a magnet. But apparently that's because the ones stuck to your fridge aren't two million times as powerful as the Earth's magnetic field—like the one...
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I Badly Want This Awesome VW Floating Car Concept For the Next Beetle to Be Real
We’ve been promised sci-fi-style futuristic cars for ages, but sadly all we got landed with so far was the Prius. Apart from the I, Robot Audi, most of them do some sort of flying or floating,...
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Magically Levitating Balls Could Be the Future of Computer Interfaces
Until we can activate our computers by simply addressing them (think more “Scotty to the Enterprise computer” than “Samuel L Jackson to Siri”), we’ll just have to rely on MIT Media Lab’s new...
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Guy Gets Magnets Implanted in His Arm to Hold His iPod, Forgets There’s a New...
The touchscreen-equipped iPod Nano spawned a multitude of straps and cases letting users wear it like a watch. But none are as creative, or downright creepy, as this body piercing artist who had four...
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Why Weren’t Hammers Designed With Magnetic Handles In the First Place?
Designer Jung Soo Park has managed to drastically improve the functionality and capabilities of the lowly hammer. But he didn’t accessorise it with useless add-ons only good for attacking non-existant...
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Magnetic Wallpaper Turns Your Entire Home Into a Fridge Door
Usually it’s the kitchen that serves as a family’s bespoke art gallery, with pint-sized masterpieces affixed to the fridge door with magnets. But if you redecorate with MagScape’s unique magnetic...
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These Magnets Turn Your Fridge Into a Retro LED Display
These fridge magnets might not be high-minded or particularly useful, but they will turn your fridge into something that looks like a 1980s Casio digital watch. Each magnet is 1.9cm long, printed with...
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Here’s the Best Desk Toy Since Newton’s Cradle
Newton’s cradle has enjoyed a fantastic run as the go-to distraction toy in offices around the world. But today it’s officially dethroned by this hypnotic ferrofluid flask that’s basically magnetic...
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Body Hacking: Arrival of the Grinders
As we have seen with the rise of the Maker Movement, people are hacking in the physical as well as the virtual world. But why stop at hacking objects? There are people out there who are hacking their...
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This Incredible Portal Gun Replica Actually Makes a Companion Cube Float In...
OK, so we’ve seen some really cool replica Portal guns in the past, even one that actually works, but this one totally blows them all away. This one genuinely makes a companion cube levitate, right...
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Turns Out Magnets Are an Awesome Way To Use Your Touchscreen Devices
In addition to light sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, did you know most tablets and smartphones have a built in magnetometer? Its immediate benefit might not be obvious, but as this video...
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This Weird Crystal Demonstrates a New Magnetic Behavior that Works Like Magic
Scientists at MIT just discovered an entirely new state of magnetism in which the polarity of particles is constantly fluctuating. The new state, called a quantum spin liquid, had been predicted by...
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