wrong-this was an iPhone post.the sub woofer was connected to an iPhone.

doubleodusty

The coolest thing i've seen today.. Not iphone 3G.. it's getting a little annoying eh?

shanzi

^ <3's non-iphone posts

tegronin

@chihuahua: Ahhhh, Full House circa '92, how I've missed you...

dry-roasted-peanuts

If you put a cornstarch solution on a picture of Bill Maher, it does the same thing.

Without a subwoofer.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Now let's see it handle the Sybian(sibian..sibyan..). Sexy Newtonian action FTW!

Groggy Banana

I used to work at CNLD in Austin. They do some really fantastic related studies there and it's definitely worth taking a look: [chaos.utexas.edu]

AJE

@Curves: Before I thicken a sauce, I always make my cornstarch slurry dance on a subwoofer. Yeah, dinner takes like, ten times longer, but it's hella cool to watch.

Drew P Draws

thats awesome... kind of reminds me of that stop motion graffiti animation you had on here july 3rd.

venomous_duck41

WOW AMAZING... NOT!

chihuahua

@Jeyl: No way man, this isnt the Thing, this is The Stuff (1985)

SirDrinksalot

Its alive!!!!!!! That is more than can be said for all the bricked iPhones.

Rick36

The cool thing about cornstarch and water: If you keep it under constant motion and stress, it remains a solid. If you stop, it instantly turns into a liquid, but you can cut it with scissors, since they create a stress point too.

johnnyabnormal

@Aunt_Snowman: Well I hit a couple of wrong keys there. "The REST is just stamp collecting." Ernest Rutherford said that. I tend to agree, even though what I do is mostly chemistry.
I believe Rutherford won the Nobel in chemistry. Delicious irony.

Aunt_Snowman

Come on, guys - this is a gadget blog, let's focus on the technology under this bodacious experiment. In other words, give us the specs on that subwoofer? Who cares if it does not matter. WE NEED TO FOCUS -- I know it's friday, but I can't let myself be distracted by amazing videos of cornstarch coming to life.

Monty

If I had one suggestion for the video, find a way to secure the tray/plate to the sub woofer. Maybe some bungie cords so you could still move it, but it would keep it tight, and allow more freedom to interact with the magic clumpy white liquid/solid.

Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set

*re-implements Miami Booty Bass Essentials, volumes I-XXXVII*

ChromiumSwitch

@Lupison: Actually, it's a physics lesson. A non-Newtonian fluid is one that has more than one viscosity constant. Lots of liquids behave like this, across a range of molecules: it's the physics of the shear stresses that makes it all work weirdly.

@opedog: Heh. That's what I said... ;-)

Kit Eaton

It's good for keepin' down the urges.

InternationalSuperspy

@Lupison: "All science is physics. The reset is just stamp collecting."

Aunt_Snowman

kinda demonic

thomusvoo

Pretty cool stuff. Its viscosity changes in proportion to the force applied to it. You can run across a lake of this stuff if you keep moving, but you'll sink as soon as you stop.

1roll20s

Whew - I thought Giz was offline. You see, I signed up for the non-apple feed and I haven't seen anything for like a week.

Thanks for the non-apple stuff guys.....

meticans

kinda looks like something out of Constantine. Devil soldiers trying to leave hell. Awesome.

innout3x3

This sort of thing comes up from time to time. Mixing corn starch and water in the right ratio can create what's called a non-Newtonian Fluid ([en.wikipedia.org]).

It's used to produce videos such as:

+ Watch video

opedog

And here I have been wasting years using cornstarch to thicken sauces and gravies. Who knew that it had secret super powers....(way cool ones too).

Curves

OH MAN.

MastaFalse

... that's not cornsarch, that's my patience playing while waiting for my iUpgrade download.

ANoel

"Kanedaaaa!!"
"Tetsuoooo!!"

takashimiike 3G edition

Don't know if there's sound or not (at work so I have the sound off), but all I was thinking about while watching that was Jackie Wilson and a toaster.

Ghinn

I cant. look. away...

DarkHavoc99

Reminds me of that microwave cell phone video...

Toshie

That's awesome. I wish it was friday at Gizmodo everyday.

pliSkiNAKE

great, now i'm gonna have bad dreams tonight.

tucker

This is a chemistry lesson, not a physic's lesson. A lesson on how molecules in liquid form will try to bound but that bound has it's breaking point. A really cool experiment is to take a penny and and one of those medicine droppers full of water and drop a drop of water one at a time and see how high you make your column of water.

Lupison

That video kind of gave me the creeps... just something about how the cornstarch was moving. But pretty cool nonetheless.

Dirk

If I was to remake John Carpenter's "The Thing", I would definitely use this type of effect! It's so gross, yet so alive!

Jeyl

Curves knows wassup. I don't know why anyone thinks iPhone G3 is better than cornstarch. At least the cornstarch has tactile feedback and doesn't require activation at the store. WTF, apps? Can you thicken a sauce with your iPhone? How does that iPhone taste? Yeah. I thought so. Steve Jobs has runny gravy and you know it. Maybe none of you fanboys would need GPS to find a restaurant if you knew how to cook a decent meal with cornstarch.

johnnyabnormal

@dry-roasted-peanuts: I just bought the box set... do you think it was a bad investment?

chihuahua

I did this project for 4th grade in Korea. Instead of a woofer, we used a modified Amp with variables in frequency pitch.

PsycheE

Looks like a mass of sinners writhing in hell @36 seconds.

BaseVilliN

I can imagine a couple of mexican gangstas riding up on some girls showing off their car then they whip out this tray of cornstarch and turn on the subwoofer. Ay Papi! :p

Silver_Back

@opedog: That looks like so much fun.

logruszed

@Kit Eaton: Right.
Most body fluids are non-newtonian like blood or milk. The biggest thing to know about them is that they are hard to pump because the viscosity changes with pump speed.

fastm3driver

@chihuahua: Gibbler!

Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set

@Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set@Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set: @dry-roasted-peanuts: You got it Dude!

chihuahua

@dry-roasted-peanuts: Come on now. Cut. It. Out.

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Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set

@dry-roasted-peanuts: I've got a Jesse and The Rippers t-shirt, it's fantastic.

As for why would I have cornstarch by my desk...you don't even want to know.

GOKOR

The song...I like it! Fits perfectly with the odd dancing liquid. O_o

Silver_Back

I don't know about corn starch, but if I could move that way I wouldn't need any Talcum Powder!

[images.quickblogcast.com]

strider_mt2k

@Silver_Back: Actually if you put it inside a plex enclosure with a blacklight/strobe combination or add some food coloring it could make a good addition to a clubs FX set.

logruszed

my god, that shit is creepy.

robotleawesome

but can make Chocolate Cornstarch Pudding with it?

Somadis

Id proly be kind of cool to add a drop of red food coloring in the middle and see what happens.

Duc

This should be the opening cinematic for Spore, representing hordes of malformed abominations crawling out of the primordial ooze.

In other news, I am going to be naming my first child Oobleck.

@Silver_Back:
Agreed.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

Here is another great cornstartch + sound video:

+ Watch video

diggabyte

@Groggy Banana: I'd prefer to see something else on the Sybian, like Shannon Elizabeth.

theblackdog

Reminds me of the Grudge and Silent Hill combined...

michelinman85

@dry-roasted-peanuts: Dave Coulier shaves his balls.

That's what Bob Saget told me a month ago.

theblackdog

Wow. Reminds me of the Venom stuff from space in Spiderman 3. Crawls exactly like it.

nintendude

diggabyte, Thats sooooo cool.
I must have been sick the day they taught this in science class; I know I would have remembered it.
Damn public schools.
That, or I went to school before they HAD non-Newtonian liquids.

Curves

@theblackdog: Apparently, "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrisette was about Dave.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Someone mentioned that this could be done with a non-Newtonian fluid, but here's a great video of people walking across (and sinking into) a pool of cornstarch fluid:

+ Watch video

Kandrak

Anxiously waiting japanese porn using that.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

looks like souls trying to escape hell

dosan89

I now wonder what would happen if you put a giant subwoofer in a pool and pumped up some phat Zapp & Roger beats. That'd be the strangest swimming experience of my life.

Xander

@ Xander:
Not a whole lot unless there was cornflour (same thing) in it

purplegreendave

nice
man give us that mp3, or what frequency is it?

and why in romania don't have cornStarch?!?!? :((

shpe11

I'm thinking some 5W30 oil might look even better, and messier.

JimboDunky

@InternationalSuperspy:

Kirk: [sighs] It could not be more simple, Luanne. You want me to show this to the cat, and have the cat tell you what it is? 'Cause the cat's going to get it.
Luanne: I'm sorry, I'm not as smart as you, Kirk. We didn't all go to Gudger College.
[timer dings]
Kirk: It's dignity! Gah! Don't you even know dignity when you see it?

frndlybnny

@Lupison:

simmo

One will see some truly amazing patterns and shapes emerge when studing Cymatics. Mere sound can create a lot of organic forms... leaves, stems, animal shapes... just really fascinating.

macserv

I want to play with this, but please define "weird" state.

@simmo: Love the cartoon. I remember some really out there stuff from higher mathematics at uni, all the set theory and geometry and algebra etc, and that was just the beginners stuff that all IT, comp sci and physics students had to take, I can't imagine what math students had to go through; they probably loved it. Many a time did I think, who the hell made all this up? Because it definitely seemed like someone had been taking the piss with higher mathematics.

Bitstuff