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Article: Fun with supermagnets: the MythBusters are notorious for their obsession with magnets. And, as you might expect, Jamie and Adam use them in some pretty extreme ways--like climbing walls.(Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman)(Interview)
- Article from:
- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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As longtime innovators, movie special effects wizards and stars of the Discovew Channel's MythBusters, Adam Savage (left) and garaje Hyneman are masters of gonzo engineering. Here, in their continuing series for PM, they share their fascination with all things magnetic.
JAMIE: The magnet is one of those little jewels that nature put here on Earth to excite geeks like us. I landed one of my first film jobs because of magnets. The guy who interviewed me for Arachnophobia said the movie was about spiders, so I went home and made a spider with piano-wire legs and a clothespin head. Then I stuck dowel pins on the ends of the legs, and put the spider on a broiler pan ...