buckyball magnets: fun, powerful and versatile choking hazards
March 20th, 2009 comments (11) stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
Hey guys! Let’s play a game! I call it “Hazard!” Here’s how it goes: I describe something, and you tell me the answer in the form of a question. Awesome game right? Okay let’s get started! It is the spherical form of Buckminsterfullerene C60. What? “What is a buckyball?” Nice one! How about this one: They’re small, round, come in groups of 216, and are hazardous to kids and gadgets. I’ll give you some time to think.
“What are boogers?” I’m sorry but that is incorrect. The correct answer is, “What are BuckyBalls?”
No, not buckyballs. BuckyBalls. BuckyBalls are not allotropes of carbon. They’re magnets made of neodymium. Makers Zoomdoggle have a couple of videos that show what the toy can do:
As you can see, BuckyBalls are powerful enough that they stick to each other and to metal surfaces as well – even when thrown. They’re also powerful enough to break hard drives and yes, pacemakers. On the other hand, children have also been known to break stuff and cause heart attacks. At least you can throw BuckyBalls away when you get tired of them right?
BuckyBalls sell for $20 US per set, plus a $6 US shipping and handling charge. But if you buy a second set, Zoomdoggle will ship them to you at no extra cost. Place your orders at e-junkie. That’s it for today’s “Hazard!”. If you live in the Internet area and would like to be a contestant, I’m sorry but you can’t be on the show because this is our last episode.
[via The Presurfer]
filed under: cool toys just plain fun
March 20th, 2009 comments (11): stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
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So what happens when your kid swallows them? Do we get to have a super awesome time in surgery as they remove them?
I think you just use more giant magnets to pull them out of their body. Oooh, I wonder what an MRI machine would do?
Dr. House already tried doing that. He embedded a bullet in a corpse and tried to “extract” it with an MRI machine. If humans could die twice that was exactly what would have happened. MRI machine got wrecked too. So.
Dr. House isn’t real. You know that, right?
He also doesn’t live in your TV. So.
DR HOUSE ISNT REAL.YOU KNOW THAT,RIGHT?
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you know yu just ruined that jaggoffs day!! Actually he thought it was a real experiemtn and the results were put in real medical journals, dr house even went on a lecture tour of the inner african countries, they beheaded dr.house but he sewed his own head back on, cause he is the most NO-non-sense doctor, I like how he said if humans could die twice, sorry to burst your bubble again, but that wasnt a real corpse either so, and it wasnt a real MRI machine EITHER, its A TV SHOW JAGGOFF
What?! Are you telling me that House, portrayed by actor Hugh Laurie, isn’t a real person? OH NOEZ! Right. I’d tell you to work on your sense of humor, but I guess you’re still working on your spelling. Next time before you submit a comment, have your mommy or daddy check for errors okay? Jaggoff.
*facepalm*
You didn’t know I was kidding, right?
PS, about the buckyballs, so I could throw them at someone with a pacemaker and if I had a good aim I could kill someone or if a kid plays too close to grandpa and his pacemaker, the kid is a killer, would they prosecute?? maybe dr.house could invent a pacemaker that is buckyball proof??
I know this may be shocking, but this toy is not meant for children. Most adults, contrary to the opinion and habits of the blogger apparently, have grown beyond the “Hafta put it in my mouth” stage.
Even if the kids put a ball in their mouths… Can’t it just go out easily by letting them swallow the string of buckyballs? xD Would be painfull to see a string going in.. and then coming back out with another ball on it o.O
“Can’t it just go out easily by letting them swallow the string of buckyballs? xD Would be painfull to see a string going in.. and then coming back out with another ball on it o.O”
It’s worth pointing out that, no, it doesn’t work this way. They stick together through your intestines, turn your insides into a garbled mess, and kill you unless you’re lucky enough to get emergency surgery quickly. Nice thought though.