All the stories tagged with magnet

Sinch cord clasp could be the solution for tangle free headphone cables

09/13/2011, Sick of getting your headphone cables tangled up in knots? Do you hate spending minutes in frustration trying to untie those darned knots? There are a few solutions in aiding with tangled headphone cables, but in terms of simplicity and [...]

World’s strongest magnet is 500,000 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field

07/20/2011, The world’s strongest magnet has been created and sits in the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University. According to researchers, it has the potential to revolutionize scientific research. The custom built split magnet took $2.5 million to [...]

Germans develop a remote-controlled stomach submarine

01/19/2011, If you’ve ever had a medical examination where the doctor stuffed a video camera tube into your mouth and you just feel like puking all the time? Well, thanks to some scientists in Germany, you won’t have to in the [...]

Concept: Floating Smartphone

12/02/2010, This concept phone looks like it was stolen from the future. If you’re wondering what’s so special about a phone that bears a similar design to most of the touchscreen phones today, it’s because there are magnets placed in specific [...]

Magnets used to reverse southpaws to right handers

09/28/2010, While it is pretty well known that one can’t really choose between being left- or right-handed, here’s a new development that might be able to turn one’s natural inclination otherwise. We’re talking about the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation which currently works [...]

Float Table looks like magic in your living room

07/29/2010, Anyone who sees the Float Table in the living room will probaby wonder what kind of magic or sorcery you dabble with when they lay their eyes on it the first time round. Comprising of 64 cubes in total, they [...]

App Magnets are geekily cool

03/11/2010, Check out these cute looking app icon fridge magnets from Jailbreak Toys, where there are 18 different magnets to choose from, measuring 7/8? square and look set to turn your regular fridge into – yup, you’ve guessed it, an iFridge. [...]

Tegu Magnetic Wooden Building Blocks

12/10/2009, Most folks today would have fiddled with building in the earlier days, right? Well, maybe the kids of the future will have some more interesting building blocks, those with built-in magnets. The building blocks from Tegu have magnets hidden inside [...]