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- PaulClayberg, on 04/23/2009, -1/+53I like the one where you put it next to your hard dri
- sirgolf82, on 04/23/2009, -1/+20Put one on your car's fuel line and get insane MPG gains!
- Joomal, on 04/23/2009, -0/+17Magnet tricks
Find studs in your walls
Move a magnet over the wall until it finds a screw or nail head under the paint. You don't even need to mark the wall-- you can just leave the magnet there until you've drilled your holes.
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I'm just waiting for the lawsuit that occurs after some idiot's magnet finds an electrical box instead of a screw. - nipterink, on 04/23/2009, -0/+15if only there were some device that already found studs for us
- 801NvizioN, on 04/23/2009, -0/+14I'm down with making a 10,000rpm motor out of a magnet and battery.
- RumpleForeskin3, on 04/23/2009, -0/+14Yeah right! I'm keeping mine on the other side of my room, right on top of my tv where it's safe.
- jmandawg, on 04/23/2009, -0/+11Eat a few, then attach metal objects to your stomach.
- GoneGreen, on 04/23/2009, -1/+12Thankful none of the magnets were used to cure ailments.
- Psukhe, on 04/23/2009, -0/+10Put one on the side of your monitor and watch the colors swirl!
- jc7012, on 04/23/2009, -2/+10Wow.. the 'put your laptop to sleep' sounds like the Worst idea I've ever heard of. Terrible idea.
- kent1146, on 04/23/2009, -1/+8Studfinders are 100% accurate, because they always beep positive when I am near one :-P.
- ivan423, on 04/23/2009, -1/+8You can also use magnets to convert old VHS tapes into HD, but you have to use a really strong magnet or it will not work.
- ultraseamus, on 04/23/2009, -0/+7Hard to beat a levitating frog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E - diggB, on 04/23/2009, -0/+7Me too, it works grea
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6They forgot my personal favorite put a magnet in your butt the same time you swallow one, then try to ***** out the sum
- BenTheTank, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5If I had a dollar for every time a stud finder gave me an inaccurate reading...
- GiggleStick, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4That's because it's not so much the strength of the magnet, but the amount of flux that can change bits on a hard drive.
There's actually a really strong permanent magnet right inside your hard drive for the arm to push against. - trejrco, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4That's what she said ... ?
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -1/+4dugg for recognizing the corniness of that statement.
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -2/+5wont do *****. You need industrial strength magnets. the ones that are used for lifting junked cars to have any effect on modern hard drives. Todays hard driver are pretty well magnetically insulated. Just to take it close to your speakers though. That does ***** them up.
- trejrco, on 04/23/2009, -0/+317 entries = 17 pages, get it right ... /s
- DonCarcharo, on 04/23/2009, -2/+4But what good is such a device if all it does is beep every time I go near it? The magnets are far more practical.
- aliaero, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1the ***** polar motor thing is awesome........can you please provide details about that.
- BenTheTank, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2Using a magnet as a stud finder is a really good idea!
Much better than my method - knocking on drywall hoping to hear a solid sound, then punching random holes. - jeremyduffy, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2I'm not buying that you can get batteries out with magnets more than just using a knife or screwdriver. If they're in that hard, magnets aren't going to cut it. But the stud thing... That's brilliant.
- Krissam, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2Hmm, i like how they show to put a macbook to sleep using a magnet and then warn people about putting it next to the harddrive.
How the hell do they expect regular people to not do that by accident, even Apple put the speakers in an old Macintosh next to the Harddrive. - fascistpig, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2BOO! You had to ruin the joke.
- evnglion, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2I am amazed that there was a list, on a website featured on digg, that is contained on one page! 17 entries... wow, shouldn't that be at least 3, maybe 4, pages long?
- maisteri, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1Build a gauss gun!
http://scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/gauss.h ... - nard3456, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1hypno toad
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/23/2009, -1/+1That didn't rely on finding a nail in the stud...
- driftingalong, on 04/24/2009, -0/+0which is one reason you are not supposed to hide electrical boxes within walls and ceilings.
- Bondheli, on 04/24/2009, -1/+1These magnet tricks are sexy awesome.
(no homopolar) - Yage2006, on 04/23/2009, -2/+1What no perpetual motion machine trick that's my fav. Seems to work well on sucka's
- Phaedryn, on 04/23/2009, -2/+1Was hoping for some really fun ones, but since those require magnetic fields beyond what the average person can generate, I guess it's understandable.
Making living creatures float within a magnetic field is rather fun though! - kiwimonk, on 04/24/2009, -3/+2Photoshopped!
- HouseOfBusiness, on 04/23/2009, -2/+0funny
- Spaztiq, on 04/23/2009, -5/+1Wow.. this isn't spam at all.....
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