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Tokyo, 2010.03.30

My brother and his wife sent me this awesome toy from Think Geek.

It's a collection of powerful little magnets. 216 of them. One of the challenges that the manufacturer puts before you is to re-make the cube form in which they ship the thing. Well in your face, magnet people:

magnets in a cube

I also made this double-tube affair:

magnets in a double-tube-like configuration

And this twenty-sided shape, the likes I've which I've not seen since University days playing Dungeons and Dragons.

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