Shall we open with an ironic reference to Terminator 2? Best not. That’s the easy option, especially when dealing with lumps of metallic ooze that seem able to alter their shape in response to their surroundings.
Magnetic Thinking Putty is your standard play putty, only stuffed with “millions of tiny micron-sized magnets” to ensure it responds to any other large magnet. Including the one that comes in the box. Here’s a video of Magnetic Silly Putty absorbing its cubed magnet. It doesn’t move quite as fast as Robert Patrick sprinting after your car. [Vat 19 via OhGizmo]
noj
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 9:24 PMnow imagine each of this tiny magnets having a brain of its own.
Steev
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 12:48 AMImagine what that looks like in reverse.
Nodeity
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 9:10 AMErm,… just push the video slide back to the start ;)
Jaz
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 9:35 AMReminds me of the old horror movie the Blob… freaky!
James Carson
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 11:53 PMermm, its called ferrofluid, been around for a while and it is AWESOME!!! dont see why they had to add cornflour to it :(