These awesome looking stools were made by suspending giant magnets above a mixture of iron ore and molten plastic, in order to allow the hybrid substance to naturally “grow” into organic shapes and textures.

Created by Dutch designer Jolan van der Wiel, they look like just the thing to spruce up your cave when you’re expecting company, or the best birthday present ever for the mineralogist in your life.

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12-in-1 Multi-Function EvriScissors – $4.95

Are you short on drawer space, but big on ideas? You need the 12-in-1 Multi-Function EvriScissors from the NeatoShop. This nifty little gadget functions as a:

• Nut cracker
• Wire cutter
• Wire Stripper
• Jar Wrench
• Fish Scaler
• Can opener
• Magnet
• Screwdriver
• Scissors
• Knife
• Wrench
• and Bottle Opener

Just think of all the trouble you could get into projects you could complete with this baby.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Tools!

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As far as at-home science experiments go, this one is both kid-friendly and non-explosive. It’s a great way to illustrate non-Newtonian flow and magnetic attraction to kids, but it’s also cool enough to keep grown-ups hanging around to see what happens. For the full instructions for making your own magnetic putty, check out the post on instructables by user mikeasaurus. Link

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Monsters Magnetic Figures – $14.95

Are you looking for a monsterrific toy for a monster-loving boy or girl? You need the Monsters Magnetic Figures from the NeatoShop.  This great mix and match set comes with 4 creepy backgrounds and 3 sheets of monster body parts.  Think of all the scary monsters you they could build.  This is the perfect toy for a summer road trip.

More Magnetic Sets available.

Be sure to check out all the fantastic Toys & Games available at the NeatoShop.

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Adorn your refrigerator with these cute scientist finger puppets and magnets ($5.95) from the NeatoShop … or we’ll just have to ask Nikola Tesla (shown above) to experiment on his death ray with you!

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Stylish jewelry isn’t unusual – but stylish and fun? Here’s a clever jewelry called the Bandoleer Magnetic Bracelet from the NeatoShop. It’s composed of sturdy little magnetic "bullets" that come apart and snap back together to create – literally – wearable fun.

Take a look at what it can do:

Guys, get a jump on Valentine’s Day and get one for your loved ones (and then, you can um, investigate the bracelet yourself, of course! Strictly for scientific purposes): Link| More Magnet Fun

Flickr user Eric 10d used lots of Zen Magnets rare earth magnet balls and some nails to create this sculpture of the Space Battleship Yamato: Link

Here’s what Terrence Kelleman of Dynomighty Design (creator of the Tyvek Mighty Wallets) did with the Desk DOTS:

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Link: Desk DOTS – $9.95 for a set of 6 from the NeatoShop

Here’s the perfect stocking stuffer for your budding entomologist: the Realistic Insect Magnet blind box by Re-Ment from the NeatoShop. Which one will you get? (Will you get the "rare" mystery insect?). Finding out is part of the fun – so be sure to get plenty!

Link | More Fun Magnet Stuff

All it takes is a steady hand, and a mere few dollars to get yourself this handy dandy DIY Vasectomy fridge magnet set from the NeatoShop!

Link | More Fun and Unusual Magnets| New Items from the NeatoShop

You’ve got the best laptop, best smart phone, the best tablet computer … but what about your fridge magnets? Well, don’t be left out of style, hipsters! Check out these App Magnets by Alyssa Zeller over at the NeatoShop. Yes, they’re shaped like your favorite app icons: Link | More Fun Geeky Stuff

A long time ago, on a refrigerator far, far away … Why have boring fridge magnets when you can have these awesomely detailed Star Wars Real Mask Magnets from the NeatoShop, featuring your favorite Star Wars characters?

From Luke Skywalker to Darth Vader and a bevy of Bounty Hunters, we’ve got ‘em: Link | More Fun Magnet Stuff

Seventeen-year-old Kacee Larson of Conrad said her string of bad luck began last July when she was driving home from her job at an ice cream shop. She saw the deer an instant before hitting it.

Larson’s second collision happened a few months later, while she was driving to church on a Sunday morning.

The streak continued. After Larson hit her fourth deer, her pastor’s wife advised her to start praying before she got into a vehicle.

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This is probably one of the strangest products we carry on the NeatoShop (and believe me, we carry a lot of strange stuff). Behold, the Cat Butts Magnet Set, a pack of 5 refrigerator magnets with pictures of felines from the non-cute end. It’s probably the perfect WTF gift for the cat lover in your life: Link

If your taste runs more toward the conventionally hip, perhaps this is of greater interest: App Magnets | More magnets at the NeatoShop

If you’re pining for apps, but can’t afford them expensive smart phones, then take heart: you can still get organized with this clever set of App Magnets – that’s right, they’re square refrigerator magnets, shaped like our favorite apps.Link

Psst, book lovers! Here’s a set of bookends that will let you highlight your favorite book with two set of gravity-defying arrows. From the NeatoShop: Link

How do you follow something that’s so fun it was voted Toy of the Year by Rolling Stone Magazine? Well, for an encore, Jake Bronstein and Craig Zucker came up with new colored Buckyballs.

The silver, gold, and black editions of Buckyballs are now available from the NeatoShop. Best of all, every purchase will get you a Mystery Bonus: Link

San Francisco-based artist/coder Robert Hodgin of Flight 404 Blog created some of the most mesmerizing sculptures using magnetized balls and cylinders. They’re part of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) exhibition.

That has got to take some mad skillz because I can easily envision the whole thing collapsing into a pile of magnetized blob at the slightest touch.

MAKE Blog has the gallery: Link | Robert’s official webpage

Related: Buckyballs over at the NeatoShop

Fiat Lux is a lamp with a switch that hovers underneath -no strings attached! The ball-shaped switch is magnetic, and rests on the lamp when not in use. When you approach the lamp, it turns itself on. Then you “hang” the switch underneath, where it levitates by magnetic force. Move the switch to turn the lamp off. Designed by Constance Guisset and Grégory Cid. Link -via Metafilter

This is the current rage in the Neatorama Shop: Zoomdoggle’s insanely fun BuckyBalls – a set of 216 balls made from powerful rare earth magnets.

You can shape and mold an unlimited variations of magnetic sculpture (of course, if you get more than 1, you can combine them to create a mega-sculpture!). Tear ‘em apart and snap ‘em back together for hours of fun.

BuckyBalls is this week’s featured product at the Neatorama Shop. For a limited time, you’ll get a free Mystery Gift for the purchase of each BuckyBalls (What will you get? Well, we won’t tell you … it’s a mystery!)

Don’t miss this: Link

The next time you ride a train, spill some paperclips on the floor and see if they do the "magnetic dance". According to Pink Tentacle:

The video — shot on the Rokko Liner in Kobe, Japan — shows how paperclips stand on end when the train accelerates and brakes. The magnetism, which is produced by the electric current that drives the motors located under the floor, apparently poses no harm to the human body, though it could damage credit cards, mobile phones, or other electronic devices if left on the floor.

Link | YouTube Link (from Kobe Shinbun)

Each mosaic design has been specially crafted to use the same combination of pieces, so every mosaic can be made with the 1296 pieces included in each motifo pack. If you want to create a new design, just rearrange the pieces.

If I’m not afraid that they’d swallow the small pieces outright, this would be a blast for my kids! Link – via Funfurde

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	When Squirrel Attacks This short video clip confirmed my worst nightmare: that squirrels are highly trained in military maneuvers. Watch as one distracts and another one attacks ... Link
	Auto-Tune the News How do you make the news more interesting to the rest of us? Set it to music! Here's a clip from Sarah Fullen Gregory (excellent singer, actually) and The Gregory Brothers making the nightly news much, much more interesting. Link | If you like that, here's the second one in the Auto-Tune series | The Gay Marriage Debate, Auto-Tuned | more from YouTube schmoyoho
	Smoochie Girl Y'all know that Paris Hilton has the same facial expression in every photo, but she isn't the only woman in the world that does this. Behold the smoochie girl - and yes, she made the exact same smoochie face in every photo: Link
	The Weirdest Japanese Commercial Ever I have to say, I agree with the VideoSift title. It is indeed the weirdest Japanese commercial ever. Not going to describe it: you have to see it for yourself. Link
	Magnet Falling Down a Copper Tube All right, let's end this on a scientific note. Here's what happened when you drop a magnet down a copper tube. The video is not slowed down, the movement of the falling magnet creates an eddy current that exerts a damping force on the magnet. Link

For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

Whoa! Take a look at these super sweet shuriken (Ninja throwing star) magnets at epaulet. Want! Link – via BB Gadgets

More cool stuff at Core 77′s Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide (77 items for under $77)