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Scented Whipped Putties Are for Playing, Not Eating

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Just in time for the putty/slime/goop trend to be over, now we have these Scented Whipped Putties from Vat19. The putties come in peanut butter, mixed berry, chocolate, and marshmallow scents, and cost $6 per 175-gram (~6-ounce) jar. You don’t get to pick your flavor though, Vat19 just sends you a random one. My mouth is watering already!

Now, why would you make a product that you’re not supposed to eat and put it in a jar that looks like it’s food and make it smell like something delicious? The product label says for ages 4+ but I’m 30+ and there’s absolutely no question I’m still going to eat some of that and get a tummy ache.

Now I know what you’re wondering, and no, it isn’t lipstick, my lips and nose are purple because of those Mr. Sketch scented markers and grape is my favorite flavor. Remember when you were a kid and you’d take the caps off two of them and just jam each one up a nostril? Those were simpler times.

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Deal: Save 60% on Scientific Magnetic Thinking Putty

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When I was a kid, we only had Silly Putty. Now kids get to play with this stuff that’s so much cooler. This stretchy compound not only offers the same tactile sensation of my childhood plaything, but is embedded with magnetic particles.

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That means you can manipulate it with magnets. While it won’t pick up ink from newspapers (who reads newspapers anymore anyhow?), the stuff does double as a refrigerator magnet. You can grab a can for just $9.99(USD) or two for $14.99 over at the Technabob Shop.

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Fun with 100 Pounds of Magnetic Thinking Putty

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When I was growing up, the only putty-like plaything I had was good old Silly Putty. I always loved messing around with it until it started to turn a sort of weird grey color after picking up too many prints of the Sunday funnies with the stuff.

There’s another kind of putty on the market these days, and it’s intentionally grey – though a much darker shade. Magnetic Thinking Putty has unique properties which allow it to bend and stretch when pulled by magnets. Normally, the stuff ships in a small tin, but the guys at Vat19 decided to take a figurative crap-ton of the stuff and glob it together to see how it would behave en masse.

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In their recently posted video, they experimented with a huge 100 pound ball of the stuff, pulled from 500 3.2 oz. tins of the gooey stuff. They unscientifically tested how well it bounces, flexes, and even if it can hold the weight of a man (I think we already knew the answer to that.) If nothing else, you’ll want to watch the video just for the giant magnet they get to play with:

Man, that time-lapse footage is crazy. If you’re interested in buying a tin of Magnetic Thinking Putty for yourself, point your big magnet in the direction of Vat19, where you pick up a single tin for $14.99(US) – or 500 for $7,495.