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Posted by hipstomp | 5 May 2011
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I love lab geeks, because while we're watching Jersey Shore and shopping for iPhone cases they're pouring colored liquids into steaming beakers and discovering new materials. A thus-far-anonymous group of people in white coats have discovered that you can mix ferrite particles with a polyethylene gel, resulting in a soft, squishy magnet now being sold over at Inventables.
This unique magnet is soft and squeezable to the touch. In every other way it is like a normal magnet; it has a north and south pole, opposite poles attract, like poles repel, and it is attracted to standard magnets. Currently, these magnets are only available in a small round form and there are no specific markets where this technology is used. It was invented purely for the challenge of creating a soft, flexible magnet.The hardness and strength of the magnet can be customized and injection molding is possible; however, the manufacturer currently only provides it in the form of round discs.
So what's the application? I don't know, my imagination's limited; maybe they could use them on Jersey Shore or in some kind of iPhone case.
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I'm thinking you could use them to hold cabinet doors shut while also reducing the noise closing a cabinet door equipped with standard magnets causes.
People watch Jersey Shore?
The guys in Insane Clown Posse are going to freak out when they hear about this.
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The coolest idea that I have heard is to use this material to make a peristaltic pump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump. The idea would be to make the tube out of the gel magnet material and then have an electromagnet that turned on and off moving the fluid along in the tube.