The coolest stuff ever, Ferofluid

[Gilvan Blight]

Okay I\'ve never heard of this stuff before, but it\'s some type of liquid made with iron that can be manipulated by magnetic fields to some really really cool results:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTn2rtULhTI&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBxCnHU8Ao&mode=related&search=

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Fascinating. The comments underneath explain how to do it.....cool.

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Somewhere on YouTube there was even a tutorial on how to make your own using mortor oil and magnetic toner.

Wild stuff. If you look around people have done some pretty neat stuff with it.

Originally made by NASA for the moving of fuels in space.

 

[farseerlum]

if this is passed through a magnetic field is current generated?

 

[funnymouth]

whoa! that is amazing...beautiful.


for some reason terminator and the symbiont comes to mind......

 

[Jericho]

Crazy! Reminds me of Solaris, the book. Yay for Stanislaw Lem.

 

[Godlikebuthumble]

How cool is that?!

Now I just imagined a diorama featuring BOTH an ferrofluid installation and something crafted from aerogel... help me :~(

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Ha.

Soon as I started watching various demo videos Aerogel came right to mind.

I wonder if Nasa has invented anything else uber cool we can marvel at?