Thinking Putty in the Cube Farm: free range or caged
Various companies like Think Geek and Crazy Aaron's sell palm sized blobs of "Thinking Putty" as a thinking aid, as a form of stress relief and as nervous energy sink. Once released into an office, you will find people subconsciously picking up their putty to pull, knead, squeeze and fold it while working on projects or while in discussion. Putty has some odd properties. It can be squeezed and shaped. It can also bounce like a rubber ball. It is solid but acts sort of like a very thick liquid. Sculptures made out of the putty start slumping immediately and end up as a pool of putty within hours. Putty can be pressed and worked but can also be torn as if it is a solid. Putty, comes in fun colors with and effects. It can be plain, UV sensitive, glow in the dark, magnetic and heat sensitive. The can at the right is heat sensitive, changing color from orange to yellow when warmed by friction, body heat or by some other heat source. ...