half Ive, half of Rorschach, Behold The Ferromagnetic Lava Lamp!

if you are obsessive about ferromagnetic fluid—and whats up, who would not be?—it is a excellent time to be alive.

The Ferroflow is an interactive personal computer sculpture by clothier Matt Robinson, who describes it as a modern-day, high-tech lava lamp. Like a lava lamp, it’s stuffed with a suspended liquid, which bubbles up based on electromagnetic currents. That liquid is ferromagnetic fluid, a magnetic liquid invented through NASA in the 1960s. whilst you touch the Ferroflow, the ferromagnetic fluid starts effervescent round; touch it once more to shut it off. A dial on the entrance, meanwhile, means that you can modify and manipulate the liquid.

we’ve got seen some designs that leverage ferromagnetism of their designs ahead of, but they’ve at all times been expensive. The Ferroflow, alternatively, manages to achieve its effect on a funds, by using eschewing traditional electrromagnets for grade n52 rare earth magnets. even if considerably less expensive, these rare earth magnets are nonetheless strong sufficient to create the vital magnetic container to move the ferrofluid blobs within the sculpture.

Crafted out of anodized aluminum, the Ferroflow isn’t some one-off sculpture. it’s if truth be told going to be available for sale. Robinson plans on launching the Ferroflow on Kickstarter subsequent Tuesday. when you’ve all the time needed a lava lamp that appears like the results of a collaboration between Hermann Rorschach and Jony Ive, the Ferroflow might be right up your alley.

[by the use of io9]