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Levitate Your Stereo Like All Real Audiophiles Do With the Zero Gravity Shelf
Why does your home stereo system sound like shit? Because it's not floating on magnets, of course. With the Zero Gravity shelf, your stereo gains powers of levitation that would be better applied to just about anything else. More »Wooden Blocks Finally Updated So Santa's Elves Cannot Make Them
Wooden blocks and rocking horses are all Santa's elves, with their stupid hammers and chisels, have been able to make for a while now. And now, by sticking magnets inside of blocks, we've even made those too advanced for them. More »Tales of Human Upgrades: Magnetic Fingertips
So, why would you ever want to make your fingertip magnetic? Well, how about being able to feel your laptop spinning up? Or sensing if a cable had a current going through it? Think of it as a sixth sense. More »You Haven't Tasted Spice Until You've Tasted It in Zero G
The following is an unpaid, untrue advertisement for the Zero G spice rack, which, incidentally, is real $44 product at Yanko Design selling under a slightly different name. More »NASA's New Super-Magnet Is So Strong It Could Make Lab Rats Levitate
NASA scientists have created an magnetic field powerful enough to make lab mice levitate, which is a big Where's My Back to the Future Skateboard breakthrough. The only problem is that the mice have to be high as kites too. More »Robot Crawls Through Veins to
A new robot, just one millimeter in diameter, can crawl through your veins to treat arterial blockage or deliver targeted medication. More »KillHeal YouWireless Resonating Power from Intel Research
Intel researchers are working on wireless power that doesn't use a conductive pad. Instead, it uses magnets and a tuned directional transfer coil to send music from an iPod a couple of feet to a speaker. Saw it. It works! More »Woodshop Class: Where Bolt-Action, Electromagnetic Coil Guns Are Made
I don't know what kind of school this kid goes to, but I doubt my shop teacher would have allowed me to build an electromagnetic coil gun that can send a round through a soda can. More »Uses for Magnets Beyond Report Cards and Refrigerators
Evil Mad Scientist put together a list of 17 lesser-known uses for magnets. Our favorites? Putting your computer to sleep, pulling snug AA batteries and resealing snack bags. [Evil Mad Scientist via HackaDay]Floating Cloud Couch Concept Doesn't Look Physically Possible
Yeah, this is a neat image and all, but it's a blatant example of a designer not even doing a little bit of research into how physical objects work before opening up Photoshop. More »Pixelated Superhero Magnets: Move Over Magnetic Poetry
Remember Magnetic Poetry? Like how annoying it was and how much it cluttered up your fridge? Well, toss out those relics because pixelated superheroes are here. More »Florida Is Scrambling Crocodiles' Brains With Magnets
Strapping a magnet to a crocodile's head seems like two counts of animal cruelty for the price of one, just to appease old people in Florida who are racist against crocodiles in their backyards. More »Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
What you are looking at is a hunk of finger from some poor bastard named Dirk caught between two large neodymium magnets. Good lord that is disgusting. More »Valentine's Day Magnets Favor the Strongly Sensitive Type
Looking for something to decorate your fridge with this V-Day, here's magnets of men weeping. Maybe it's just me, but if I really wanted to see grown ass men cry, I'd just start dating again. More »What If the Earth Is a Giant Alien Hard Drive?
"What if we could manipulate the earth's own magnetic field and thus program data into the natural energy curtains of the planet?" More »Photoshop and Illustrator Magnets Cast Suspicion On Your Photography Skills
Like these ads but without the social commentary, these magnets can make a whiteboard full of photos look like a screenshot of Photoshop or Illustrator. More »Magnetic Mount Lenses Add Wide Angle, Telephoto and Fish-Eye Capabilities to the iPhone
We have seen several different add-on lenses designed to enhance the iPhone camera, but these versions ditch the case in favor of magnetic mounts. There are also three different lenses to choose from. More »Beauty and Bondage Gadget Circa 1961
People have long considered magnets to be a source of health and beauty, but in 1961 they took this mumbo jumbo very seriously. More »Art Lebedev Design for the Rest of Us: Pixelated Mouse-Pointer Fridge Magnets
When they're not designing $1,500 OLED keyboards or hot WiMax phone concepts, it's good to know the guys over at Art Lebedev Studio like to keep the common folk in mind, sometimes. The common folk who will like to pin up printouts of Gizmodo posts to their fridge with these pixel-art mouse-pointer magnets. They're about 2.5-inches tall and will run you $4 in the Art Lebedev store. [Art Lebedev via Pocket Lint]World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction in Florida
You have probably heard stories about patient injuries or deaths occurring when someone introduces a heavy metal object into the same room as an MRI machine. Obviously, we are talking about some seriously powerful magnets here. However, the $10 million magnet currently under construction at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida is expected to reach 100 tesla when finished—about 67 times more powerful than a typical MRI machine. More »Space Invaders Have Infiltrated the Kitchen