Weird World

There’s something a bit crappy about this magnetic slime robot that can retrieve stuff you’ve swallowed

Within a short space of time, the problem of toddlers – and drunks – swallowing things they shouldn’t could be solved by something that looks as though Ridley Scott commissioned it.

This curious mixture of neodymium magnet particles, borax and polyvinyl alcohol may turn out to be the medical breakthrough of the decade. Check it out.

Of course, to be a medical breakthrough, patients have to be prepared to use it – and that seems …unlikely.

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