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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I’m not actually sure, but I do know that there will be applications for this tech that will change everything.

"a solution in search of a problem" does remind me of cryptocurrency a lot

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    While a lot of the time the applications of a technology precede it's discovery, it's certainly not ultra rare for the discovery to prompt the applications, because nobody ever gave much thought to 'what can we do with X'.

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