Absolutely amazing magnetic Buckyballs.

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Have you taken notice lately of people fiddling with piles of tiny metallic balls? We certainly did, and after trying some for ourselves, we, too, have become caught up in the fascination with Buckybells by Zoomdoggle from Maxfield & Oberton, New York, N.Y.

Dubbed as the amazing magnetic toy you can't put down, Buckyballs, inspired by and named after architect Buckminster Fuller, are 216 powerful rare Earth magnets. They are quite small--the whole set stacked together forms about a one inch cube--and each has two poles where one side attracts and the other repels. This push-and-pull allows for the creation of unlimited shapes and patterns. Just slowly pull one free from a random pile and watch a chain form as they all...