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Instructables user [killbox] seems to have come across a process that actually makes magnetic silly putty “better”, depending on your specific needs. He had tons of fun making a batch of magnetic ...

Ever seen The Blob? This is sort of like that – only the blob doing the absorbing is a ball of putty, infused with millions of micron-sized ferromagnetic particles. The putty is nothing special on its ...

Think Silly Putty is just fun and games? Not always! Just watch this magnetic putty completely devour a rare-earth magnet. It’s not as instantaneous as this time-lapse video makes it seem but it still ...

[Photo: Mike Warren, Instructables] In its current form, Silly Putty isn’t quite as silly as the name suggests. Add in some ferric powder, like what Instructables user Mike Warren did, and now you’re ...

Instructables user mikeasaurus has posted a fun and easy guide that describes how to make your own magnetic Silly Putty. Basically, you just take some standard Silly Putty (which is a lot of fun by ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be eaten alive by that fat, goopy Pokémon that hid in the sewers? Now we have an approximate visual of what that would be like, thanks to this ...

The image above is a screen capture from a video clip where the black ooze gobbles up that rare-earth magnet. It’s actually a blob of Silly Putty which was slightly altered to add magnetic properties.

This article was taken from the August 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

You might remember Silly Putty from when you were a kid, but this magnetized version is about 100 times cooler. Just look at how gracefully the lump of clay swallows ...

I always liked a little silly putty when I was younger, but now there’s a new blob on the block. The next generation of silly putty, now called ‘Magnetic Thinking Putty,’ has millions of tiny ...