Exotic Putty

[CalMeacham]

A co-worker brought in five cans of Aaron's Brain Putty -- sort of Silly Putty with strange additives. there's glow-in-the-dark putty in several colors, opalescent putty, color-changing thermal responsive putty, several kinds of colored putty and -- best of all -- magnetic putty. This stuff held itself up on our (metal) wall without any other support.

http://www.puttyworld.com/index.html


Go to the website and see movies of the magnetic putty swallowing up rare earth magnets as if it were an amoeba. Look at the picture of a live version of "Persistance of Memory" made out of Thinking Putty. And other odd stuff.


be warned, though, the stuff costs $10 a tin. might be worth it, though.

[CalMeacham]

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[Sunspace]

That's cool. I may have a Christmas present here.

[Half Man Half Wit]

Oh, that magnetic putty is awesome. It's movements look almost intentional, yet are caused by simple forces (well, outwardly simple -- I don't even want to know what goes on inside of that stuff).

[Tastes of Chocolate]

We bought a mix of these last year.
I've got one of the purple electric.
We also got some of the magnetic putty.
It's rather fun putting a ball bearing magnets on it, and watching the putty kind of grow around it.

[Oslo Ostragoth]

We do a <$15 "Yankee" Christmas exchange in my family. I think I know what my gift will be this year....

[Green Cymbeline]

Ooh neat, thanks for the link -- ditto Oslo, will make great X-mas exchange presents!

[GaryM]

I've had that site bookmarked for some time. Nice to hear that the products are worthwhile, well fun anyway. Guess I need to order some.