A new desk lamp is taking over from the lava lamp -- by replacing the boring old wax lava with interactive magnetic fluid. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Regular lava lamps haven’t been unironically cool in decades, but technologists keep finding new and exciting ways to update them for the 21st century. Recently, we covered the way that Silicon Valley ...

What blobs of heated wax bubbling in a glass cylinder was to the ’70s, ferromagnetic fluid is to 2015. Kyle Haines, founder of Inspired Designs, says this is natural: ferrofluid and lava lamps are a ...

Kyle Haines has this week launched the Make 100 Outerspace Ferrofluid Collection, making available limited edition Ferrofluid art that takes the form of alien heads, spacecraft and awesome Ferrofluid ...

If you’re obsessed with ferromagnetic fluid–and hey, who wouldn’t be?–it’s a good time to be alive. The Ferroflow is an interactive desktop sculpture by designer Matt Robinson, who describes it as a ...

What is the best lava lamp? It seems that no matter how much culture changes, there’s always a demand for the retro, which is ...

Ferrofluid is mesmerizing to behold. It has the fluid properties of a liquid and also the magnetic properties of a solid state of matter. The term itself is a portmanteau of “ferromagnetic” and “fluid ...