Payton Bushnell is the adorable three-year-old you see above. She’s also the incredibly fortunate young lady who swallowed an astonishing 37 rare-earth magnets and lived to blabber about it.
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 power of magnets.
You might think you can explain where Columbia-based Aracataca got these giant pens, pencils, crayons and markers that are somehow miraculously passing through solid objects. But you can’t. Because it’s magic. Pure, unadulterated, magic.
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 learning up some vocabulary as you gorge on the magical leftovers inside your refrigerator. Win, win.
The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they’re super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market.
After a few seasons on the slopes, you realise that having a set of goggles with interchangeable lenses is a must. Then you realise that changing the lenses on those goggles is a huge pain in the arse. Well magical magnets are once again the answer to all of our troubles.
If you spill millions of litres of oil all over, say, the Gulf of Mexico, no amount of OxiClean is going to help. You need something industrial strength, and researchers are looking at magnetic soap as a potential solution.
Whether you’re at home or stuck in prison, dropping the soap in the shower is something you’ll want to avoid altogether. So, once again, magnets have improved the human condition with this soap holder that ditches the rope.
Unless you work at the Pentagon, the key locks on your desk drawers are probably easy to compromise. So with their new Covert, the folks at Quirky figured that a drawer lock can’t be picked if it can’t be found.
Induction cooking is pretty freaking great — your food is extremely precisely heated using magnets instead of say, fire. Now, if you’ve got some serious cash, Thermador has a giant magnetic stove that’ll powerboost your kitchen.
