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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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This Tiny Hover-Disc Can Be Driven Around with Nothing but Lasers
Lasers are cool. Things that hover are cool. This is both. Developed by researchers at Aoyama Gakuin University, this little magnetic hover-disc is powered by magnets and driven with lasers. The...
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Omega’s New Anti-Magnetic Watch Doesn’t Need a Faraday Cage—It Is a Faraday Cage
The delicate inner workings of a mechanical watch handle magnetic fields—especially those generated the industrial electromagnets used in hospitals and power stations— about as well as two litres of...
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This Perpetual Motion Machine May Not Be Perpetual, But It’s Awesome Anyway
This guy claims that this invention is a perpetual motion machine, the Philosopher’s Stone of physics, the Holy Grail of power. Play the video and check it out for yourself. The machine uses neodymium...
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Whoa, Watch Magnetic Putty Completely Swallow a Rare-Earth Magnet Like a...
Think Playdough is just fun and games? Not always! Just watch this magnetic putty completely devour a rare-earth magnet. It’s not as instantaneous as this time-lapse video makes it seem but it still...
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Watching Four Minutes of Magnetic Putty Swallowing Things Is Oddly Erotic
Sure, you’ve seen the master mutant powers of magnetic putty before and how its snake-like unhinging ability can completely engulf an object. It’s the work of magic! Or the closest thing we have to...
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Magnetic Field Art Will Make You Miss Your Old CRT Display
Remember how awesome it was to hold up a magnet to an old CRT display, and then watch it degauss in a colourful, rainbow seizure? Well you probably don’t have any CRTs on hand anymore, but German...
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This Guy Has an Invisible Headphone Implanted In His Ear
Rich Lee has freed himself from the frustrations of misplacing or having to untangle his headphones ever again. How? He’s what’s known as a grinder: someone who experiments with surgical implants or...
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A Mobius Strip Track Makes Magnet Hovercrafts Even Cooler
Superconducting magnets are freakin’ awesome. You should know this already. But the folks at the Royal Institution took it a step further with their futuristic upside-down, Möbius strip track that’s...
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Every Dog Needs This Magnet-Powered Flying Carpet
The new skunkworks project from Swiss retailer MiCasa—MiCasa Lab—is all about giving scientists, engineers, and crazy people a safe space to work on the types of projects that might otherwise go...
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You’ll Wish You Had a Reason to Make This DIY Magnet Vacuum
Having to sweep up thousands of tiny metal shavings is admittedly a pretty uncommon chore. But doing it by using a super powerful neodymium magnet to just suck it all up and drop it in a box looks like...
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Watch a Fully-Automatic Electromagnetic Pulse Rifle Demolish a Laptop
Mag-guns are pretty impractical, but they’re always fun to fire. Larsplatoon knows first-hand. A few years ago he put together a crazy single-shot coilgun that tore up household appliances one 1.25...
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These Dresses Were Made Using Magnets
Other than lasers and Elon Musk, magnets might be the most superhuman objects we have on this dear Earth of ours. They can make things fly, they can make things stick, they can demolish laptops, they...
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This Hypnotic Turntable’s Glowing Platter Floats on Magnets
If you’re a fan of the supposedly warmer, richer sound of vinyl, you owe it to yourself to outfit your sound system with gear that does your record collection justice. And as long as you’re not...
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I Have Seen the Future and It’s a One-Handed Magnetic Zipper
Under Armour is making the bold claim that it’s finally “fixed zippers.” While its innovative new Magzip feature probably isn’t going to change the entire world, it’s still a vast improvement to...
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How to Make a Terrifying, Spinning, Ferrofluid Buzzsaw
There are almost as many fascinating ferrofluid videos on YouTube as there are clips of kittens being cute. So it’s rare to come across one that offers anything new and interesting. But...
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Magnetic Levitation Seems Magical in Slow Motion
What do you get if you take some magnets, superconductors, liquid nitrogen and a slow-mo camera with which to film it all? This kind of magical footage is what. This demonstration presented by the guys...
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Migraine-Beating Brain EMP Approved for NHS Headache Sufferers
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, a group that determines what treatments are made available to us on the NHS, has approved a magnetic brain massage system known as transcranial...
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