Awesome Stuff: Ferrofluid
from the make-it-dance dept
Last week you got to see four projects, so hopefully you banked that extra one, because this week we’re going with just two. However, they’re both projects involving ferrofluid that are perhaps competing with each other. I could only find two live ferrofluid projects, and that made it easy to figure out what was on the list this week….
- First up is the well-named Ferrocious, which not only shows you ferrofluid in action, but it also responds to music and dances around within the device.
- The second one is also a ferrofluid display, but the NeoDrop interactive display definitely has a much more polished look to it, even though it (like the simplified Ferrocious device) relies on hand held magnets to make the liquid do its thing.
Anyway, that’s it this week: short and sweet, and letting the ferrofluid do the talking… Until next time, enjoy thinking about ferrofluid.
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Comments on “Awesome Stuff: Ferrofluid”
Really? Looks a bit “school-boyish” to me!
The latter impresses me as an electronic version (of sorts) of Wollywilly…
NeoDrop video's music
The song used in the NeoDrop video was written and performed by the incredibly talented Yuki Kajiura. The song in question is “BT” from the “.hack//Sign Original Soundtrack”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Kajiura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_.hack//Sign_original_soundtracks
Re: NeoDrop video's music
Plain awesome soundtrack I tell you. That’s one of the aspects I love the most in animation: the music. Check out Aria The Animation (and the sequels) soundtracks. It’s one thing I’d give a good money to have the originals =/
Hmmm...
I seem to have two more gadgets on the way to my door.
Lava Lamp!
This is the 21st Century Lava Lamp! 🙂 I’m sure someone will come out with one that is polished in appearance, and sophisticated in its visual behavior before long. Anyone around here (besides me) remember the “Pet Rock”? So, it just goes to prove that people will buy ANYTHING that is sufficiently novel and intriguing. 🙂
Re: Lava Lamp!
people will buy anything BECAUSE it is sufficiently novel and intriguing.
Re: Lava Lamp!
Pretty sure the Pet Rock was a gag gift, nobody I know remembers it as anything but a joke… The lava lamp on the other hand, was interesting to watch and can be used as a night light. If anyone spent much time watching their pet rock, then I hope they got the help they needed.
"Awesome Stuff"
yes,,,, really AWESOME !!!!!
To me they are quite a yawn..
I count only three projects last week: 1 each of laser tag game, laser lamp, and 3D scanner.
Ferrofluids seem like more of a niche thing now, but as time goes on, they’re going to become vital to 3D printers. Instead of just squirting on material and hoping that it sets in the right order, a ferrofluid would be able to arrange an entire layer of hot material and even fix imperfections as the design was being printed.
But once again, all that is in the future.
Personally it didn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside willing to buy. The first is kind of.. ugly. The second COULD be nice if there could be automated ways of building images and patterns with the fluid.
Maybe if you join the idea of the first one with the second you’d have a very interesting product. Alone they don’t stick (at least in my opinion).
idea
Why dont they place a small electromagnet with fluctuating power at the bottom of the neodrop powered by a rechargeable batery, with a switch to turn it on and off, along with the two hand held neodymium magnets at the top.if that is done I wil buy it in a heartbeat!!!