Parris: Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys here with my magnetic assistant, who finds
herself strangely attracted to this mysterious magnetic putty.
Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty has become very popular lately. This model is their Magnetic
Putty, and they include a magnet with it. It allows you to play with it with a magnet. It will
actually draw the putty towards it. It sounds very exciting. Let's take a look.
This can of Magnetic Putty has just over three ounces of putty in it, and it goes for about $15. I'll
put a link down below this video if you'd like to check it out online. My assistant is going to do
the honors of opening up the tin.
Oh, what does that look like to you? Where is the magnet?
Ximena: I don't know.
Parris: Hmm. Let's show you what's inside. Here's what we found in the tin. What does this
look like to you?
Ximena: Blue sparkly dog poop.
Parris: That's what it looks like. I'm guessing that somewhere in it is the magnet. It's very firm.
I don't know if it softens up like Play-Doh with a little body heat and moving around. We're
going to dig through this and see if we can find the magnet.
Ximena: Huh.
Parris: You found it?
Ximena: Yes.
Parris: Okay, hold it up and show everybody. It was actually in the bottom stuck to the tin.
There we have the magnet. It's a rectangular shape. Let's see if it picks up the tin. Yeah, that's a
pretty strong magnet.
Now I think, just on its own like this, well it's been in contact with it, but I think this, by itself,
just has the iron filings in it, so you have to magnetize it with this by putting it together. That
imparts a magnetic charge to the iron filings so then you can have more of a response with the
magnet. Let's see what happens here. I feel it moving in my hand.
Ximena: I can see it move.
Parris: The whole thing is pulling towards the magnet. Oh, yes. It's a very subtle thing, but I can
feel the entire thing of putty changing shape and stretching itself out towards the magnet. She's
trying it out just as putty, just as a play thing like Silly Putty or something.
It's very dark colored, so I don't think it will pick up images like Silly Putty, if you roll it over a
picture in the newspaper, it will pick that up and you can see it, but they have lots of colors of
this.
Ximena: Why don't you try ripping? There!
Parris: It can be done. It is getting more malleable with the motion and the heat from the hands.
Whoa, and it does bounce, just like it says on the box. Yes, it's definitely following the magnet.
It does make it seem alive. Yes, you caught it.
Leave it on there to get some magnetism, pull it off, and now see what reaction you get. That's
stronger. Whoa! It's getting held just by the end; that's amazing.
That is a ball of the magnetic putty set up between some LEGOs. This was my assistant's idea.
She's going to show you something amazing here. The magnet placed on top. We may have to
time motion this a little, but you'll see what happens. I see it happening already. It's climbing up,
yes.
Some of the ball is going down to the table and flattening out. Oh, no! It's picking it right up off
the table. Oh, my gosh! The entire ball has climbed up to the magnet, and it's actually almost
pulling the last little bit of it off the table. That's amazing.
I was really impressed with this Magnetic Putty. What did you think of it?
Ximena: It was amazing.
Parris: Yes.
Ximena: I've never seen anything like it before.
Parris: It does some really cool stuff, so for the money, for $15, a pretty good gift idea for
something for a birthday or later in year, something for Christmas. Again, we have a link down
below this video.
I did just want to mention, again, that Kinetic Sand that we did the review of a couple weeks ago,
I'll put a link to that up above us here; this was also really good if you're looking for this sort of
thing, something that can entertain a kid for a long period of time. Doesn't really make a mess.
You can do it in a small, contained area. Both of these, I think, are really good gift ideas.
Wouldn't you agree?
Ximena: Yes, I do.
Parris: A lot of it, also, I'd say part of it depends on the creativity of the kid. She thought of the
idea of mounting the magnet a little distance above the ball of putty and see if it would climb up,
which it did. If your kid's creative, they'll think of a lot more things to do with it, and if they're
not so creative yet, it gives them a chance to exercise that part of their brain and come up with
some interesting experiments and ideas.
What's another thing you thought of to do with the putty? For Epic Review Guys.
Ximena: Ta da!
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