I would have bought a set for $10 but $20 is too high for what you are getting. Just my opinion. I may put in writing and put in my lockbox where I keep Howard Hughes will and the plans for a .9999 speed of light Roomba (cleans your entire house in a few nanoseconds). However, it’s two “emergency gifts” you can set aside.
I saw the background image of a galaxy load on my screen first and was actually excited to see what this could be. Never before has hitting the meh button seemed more appropriate.
EYE Luff magnets! —just a teeny tiny heads up, these may pose a choking hazard to ants. If your countertop ants swallow one instruct the other ants to thrust the victim’s thorax against the non-serrated portion of a butter knife to initiate projectile catapulting. Should other ant tribes in the kitchenette area consider this effluvium a hostile act of ant war, contact the respective ant colony embassy in your environs. Do not confuse with the micro beads in your favorite acne face scrub. If a single bead magnet gets lodged in the eye, prop the eyelid open with a toothpick and drive the victim to the nearest electromagnet and induce staring from the 40 meter mark.
SERIOUS WARNING: These are not safe to have in the vicinity of small children. Previous iterations of similar products were recalled because of significant injuries, including death, due to swallowed magnets moving to different areas of the colon where they attach to each other through, and burn holes in, the colon walls. Nasty stuff, they don’t show up as two magnets when X-rayed, which make them difficult to identify. Please do not allow these in presence of younger aged children. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2013/high-powered-magnet-balls
At the same time, these are a blast for older people who want to build and do creative things with these amazing magnets. (hence, the warning statements)
@GTTraveller Darwin awards aren’t easy or kind. If you feed anything a magnet more than once, that’s what happens. People can buy them again, because the original recall was stupid alarmist nonsense and “fOr teH chilDRen!!” silliness.
Magnets are perfectly safe IF YOU DO NOT EAT THEM. They are NOT BABY TOYS.
Also, don’t grind them together. Buy a stress ball or something for that. Use a plastic card to separate, and assemble them into patterns. The outer coating can flake off when you apply a lot of stress, but for fiddling, you should be fine.
@GTTraveller that recall was thrown out for lack of evidence and you can buy the actual fun ones again. Yes they are dangerous if you eat them or worse let your kids eat them. If you’re worried you can’t be responsible with something then you shouldn’t buy it.
These however are not them. These were intentionally made smaller and weaker to get around that CPSC nonsense while it was in effect and are much safer. And much less fun. Not that you should be letting your kids eat these either.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
2x Sets of 512 rare earth magnetic balls (1024 total)
2x Metal building base
2x Plastic splitter card
2x 16-page starter guide
2x Carrying case
Price Comparison
$49.90 (for 2) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
These are fun- go buy them everyone!
They are attractive.
@dtwsportsfan They do look spektacular.
@dtwsportsfan Why not colors?
https://www.getspeks.com/search?q='2.5mm'
I’m magnetized by them.
For adults over the age of 14? The UC Berkeley Adulting class disagrees.
Goddamnit, this shit again!!! Sigh…
<sigh>
FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY!!!
aw, fuckit- g’head- we’ll need something to laugh about Monday.
@alacrity I bet the equivalent ones sold by Goop at 10x the price are expressly for internal use, but not to be ingested.
Finally! Something I don’t need, but kinda want enough to buy! Now if someone can just instruct me as to how to attach the gif of my order #…
@mehvid1
/ image or / giphy (without the space between the / and image or giphy) then type your order “#”
These are most stressful when you are a 10 thumbed spaz and are trying to get them back in the box.
Bought these the first time they went up, far too small to be much fun in my experience.
@leveytation same. the larger ones are more satisfying and easier to make things with.
@leveytation @zippyus
A rare twofer TWSS!
They make excellent pen holders.
You guys really want to get rid of these, don’t you?
Whenever these come up for sale, the second image (which I suspect is an animation) never loads on my phone. I blame the goat. Meh.
@PooltoyWolf it is someone that has pulled the magnets into a string two beads wide. They then roll that into a snail shape.
Hope you don’t feel like you missed out too much.
@RiotDemon Nah, I’ll live. Thanks for the explanation
I would have bought a set for $10 but $20 is too high for what you are getting. Just my opinion. I may put in writing and put in my lockbox where I keep Howard Hughes will and the plans for a .9999 speed of light Roomba (cleans your entire house in a few nanoseconds). However, it’s two “emergency gifts” you can set aside.
@jewelshound Yep, I would have bought at $10. $20 is too much for me too.
If they are rare on Earth, why they sell them by the 1000?
I saw the background image of a galaxy load on my screen first and was actually excited to see what this could be. Never before has hitting the meh button seemed more appropriate.
“Specs”? Surely you mean “Speks”?
I can’t believe you missed that opportunity, Mediocrebot.
So you want me to pay to play with tiny balls? Seems like there is a bad joke there…
/giphy tiny balls
The husband is obsessed and wants to build bigger things
/buy
@midstarrynight It worked! Your order number is: unwary-downy-mink
/image unwary downy mink
EYE Luff magnets! —just a teeny tiny heads up, these may pose a choking hazard to ants. If your countertop ants swallow one instruct the other ants to thrust the victim’s thorax against the non-serrated portion of a butter knife to initiate projectile catapulting. Should other ant tribes in the kitchenette area consider this effluvium a hostile act of ant war, contact the respective ant colony embassy in your environs. Do not confuse with the micro beads in your favorite acne face scrub. If a single bead magnet gets lodged in the eye, prop the eyelid open with a toothpick and drive the victim to the nearest electromagnet and induce staring from the 40 meter mark.
Are the Speks Magnetic Balls two in a pack, or are they individual units?
@cheapie614 When I bought them they were in separate clear boxes like in the photo.
Thanks sammydog01
Is this the cheapest it’s ever been?
@dam091 Looks like.
http://mehstalker.com/search.php?search=speks
@sammydog01 ah, what the hell.
/giphy proverbial-unanimous-donkey
SERIOUS WARNING: These are not safe to have in the vicinity of small children. Previous iterations of similar products were recalled because of significant injuries, including death, due to swallowed magnets moving to different areas of the colon where they attach to each other through, and burn holes in, the colon walls. Nasty stuff, they don’t show up as two magnets when X-rayed, which make them difficult to identify. Please do not allow these in presence of younger aged children.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2013/high-powered-magnet-balls
At the same time, these are a blast for older people who want to build and do creative things with these amazing magnets. (hence, the warning statements)
@GTTraveller Darwin awards aren’t easy or kind. If you feed anything a magnet more than once, that’s what happens. People can buy them again, because the original recall was stupid alarmist nonsense and “fOr teH chilDRen!!” silliness.
Magnets are perfectly safe IF YOU DO NOT EAT THEM. They are NOT BABY TOYS.
Also, don’t grind them together. Buy a stress ball or something for that. Use a plastic card to separate, and assemble them into patterns. The outer coating can flake off when you apply a lot of stress, but for fiddling, you should be fine.
@GTTraveller that recall was thrown out for lack of evidence and you can buy the actual fun ones again. Yes they are dangerous if you eat them or worse let your kids eat them. If you’re worried you can’t be responsible with something then you shouldn’t buy it.
These however are not them. These were intentionally made smaller and weaker to get around that CPSC nonsense while it was in effect and are much safer. And much less fun. Not that you should be letting your kids eat these either.
TWSS
Did these sell out? What happened to the “you slackers have until 8am to buy some” option?
/buy
@melonscoop Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
@melonscoop well… It was a long long time after 8AM. About 16 hours after.
@unksol Different 8AM. @Melonscoop gets to buy stuff the day after because of the fancy V badge. Unless it sells out, which it did. Bummer.
what a rip off they are so tiny it makes it hard to play with them so they are a waste of money and time
@fochef Yeah but do they still taste good?
@therealjrn i put a little salt on them and they taste fine just don’t digest that well they come out like corn
Kids love them, they are way too young for them. So far, the magnets have not been ingested.