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| | | Description: | | Hog Wild Romp | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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Lots of fun!Dec 29, 2009
I bought this for my husband as a fun gift for him to keep on his desk at work. He loves it! We've had fun rearranging the magnets to create different movement patterns and seeing how long we can keep the pendulum moving. It's fascinating to watch the pendulum swing and move in crazy patterns. Even our 11 month old was fascinated by its movements.
The toy itself seems well-made and built with decent materials, though it certainly wouldn't stand up to a lot of rough-housing. I am pleased with the quality for the price I paid for it.
 Fun and FascinatingDec 26, 2009
This simple and durable device is captivating in operation and lures children and adults alike to play with the magnets to get different patterns. It teaches the basics of magnetism and pendulums in one fun toy that had my 6 year old niece and several adults engaged in place of other more flashy and expensive toys. For the price, this is a real winner.
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This thing is awesome.Jun 28, 2009
Mess around with magnetic fields with the ROMP - basically a magnet on a string swinging over other magnets. A simple concept, but you can do a lot with it. Unfortunately, perpetual motion is impossible, but you can really get this thing to move and keep moving for a long time. Plus you can set it up to have the magnet sticking off at a weird angle so people's first impression is "What IS that thing?". If you like messing with magnets and want a cool thing to put on your shelf, get one of these.
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Should be in every classroom in the countryOct 12, 2007
We teach science as a linear action-reaction set of events, with the implicit idea that if we can know all of the details, we can predict any consequences. As 20th century physics demonstrated, it is theoretically impossible to know all of the details.
We typically look at a system from the outside, where everything is averaged out, or else simplify a system so that it can be managed (take a perfectly round cow goes the old physics joke), but if we need to look at the system itself, we are in a different realm. And, if we want to understand weather, global warming, nanotechnology, or genetic engineering, we are in the system itself.
The seemingly randomness of this simple toy is the basis for understanding how the world really works -- and its chaotic behavior should be the basis for how we teach science.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
get repulsed!Aug 31, 2004
As the 9 included magnets both attract and repulse the swinging pendulum, the action is both jerky and fluid. The invisible fields act as an ethereal cushion as the pendulum never touches the magnets, but floats above them. Like a perpetual motion machine with no purpose, you can escape your duldrums as you stare at the swinging pendulum going on and on for minutes on end, getting bounced from one magnet to another. Comes with a book of games for the terminally bored. Make sure you keep this away from Television sets, CRT monitors, magnetic media and your CPU!
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