Aaron Muderick is grateful to the anonymous pioneering office worker who thought to populate his or her desk with toys. Muderick was a software engineer when his go-to desk toy, Silly Putty, gave him ...

Ever seen The Blob? This is sort of like that – only the blob doing the absorbing is a ball of putty, infused with millions of micron-sized ferromagnetic particles. The putty is nothing special on its ...

File this one under "Coolest thing we've seen all day": a cube of magnetic putty swallowing a smaller cube of metal whole. We first saw this on r/woahdude, a section of Reddit dedicated to "Trippy & ...

This automagically morphing blob of Silly Putty is based in science, silly, not witchcraft. But how does one go about creating a freaky blob of magnet-devouring goodness? Instructables member Michael ...

This article was taken from the August 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...