Technabob » quarter http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Geek Stuff Sun, 27 May 2012 20:00:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Quarters Shrunken Down to Size Through Electromagnetism http://technabob.com/blog/2012/04/18/quarters-shrunken-down-to-size-through-electromagnetism/ http://technabob.com/blog/2012/04/18/quarters-shrunken-down-to-size-through-electromagnetism/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:24:48 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=91627 When I was growing up, I remember seeing a native tribe somewhere on TV or the movies who had a bunch of shrunken heads hanging around their huts. I seem to remember that they looked like dried up apples that had been carved out. Maybe that’s what they really were and they didn’t actually shrink any human heads.

If you’d like to get your hands on a shrunken head without harming a hair on anyone’s head, then check out this oddity – a shrunken head U.S. Quarter.

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These quarters have been zapped with 6,000 volts and 100,000 amps using a high energy electromagnetic field.  The intense energy forces whatever is used as a conductor between its repelling magnetic fields to be compressed in about 1/100th of a second. The result of placing a quarter in this evil contraption is a smooshed coin like the ones shown in the pics here. While the center details are somewhat distorted, the edge, letters and numbers are pretty much intact, making of one weird looking coin.

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You can get your hands on one of these shrunken quarters over at ThinkGeek for $24.99(USD). That’s right, it may be about 1/3rd smaller, but it costs 100 times as much – and you can’t use it in any vending machine.

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The clock was designed by Anthony Dickens for Lexon and comes in black or white with a red arm. The name Around About refers to the ways in which people estimate time, such as quarter til, half past, and so forth.

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Me? I think it’s hecka cool. If you do too, you can get one for the perfectly reasonable price of $39.00 from The Conran Shop.

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