A magnetic fluid sits in a sealed glass dome and is driven by electromagnets underneath, so it throws up spikes and ripples in time with whatever is playing. It is kinetic sculpture rather than audio equipment — there is no speaker in it and it is not trying to reproduce sound. The appeal is entirely visual, and it is one of the few desk objects that is genuinely hard to look away from.
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