Neodymium magnet + CRT

[XxxThePsyCheMisTxxX]

that = LSD visuals :-D

[651macintosh]

I'ts new Compiz Config!!!!!!!!!!!

[YvesWonGhz17]

Wil it work on my half inch led display? :O

[dickcheney6]

@YvesWonGhz17 A CRT actually works by an electromagnetic coil in the "neck" of it. The magnetism bend the electron beams to paint a picture. The magnet at the front will also bend the beams, semi-randomly. This can also break the CRT because the shadow mask (what separates the colors) can either become magnetized (which can be fixed with a special tool) or become warped (no practical remedy for that)

[gumdrops342]

whoa!!

[XxFaKyouxX]

Xubuntu Linux!

[BrokenHorn90]

@XxFaKyouxX That's Debian.

[XxFaKyouxX]

@BrokenHorn90 "phail" xP

[thePasQo9]

black hole :O

[djaychannohatsukoi]

@thePasQo9 I think the phenomenon is analogous to the gravitation distortion around a blackhole. Idk it looks like that.

[shadow444222]

Xbuntu. need i say more.

[zoomupfull]

the portal to hell

[rulonis]

Congratulations, you f*cked up your monitor! 

[Nevvklear]

@rulonis no you only need to got to the monitor menu and then choose "degauss"

[gameboy3625]

it looks like a black hole

[bpmagruder]

This is also destructive to your CRT, so don't do it too much and press "Degauss" in your CRT settings.

[burblefurtz]

This is a BAD idea---screws up CRT

[friendlybacon]

fucking magnets! how do they work?

[UhustickPwnU]

oh linux! i took apart my hdd with linux to nab the magnet XD it was an old 60GB :P

[conoba]

When I was a little kid I tried that with an old speaker magnet on our color TV.

Lucky for me the funky colors went away after triggering the degaussing circuit a few times.

[Zarac1121123]

oooh pretty colors

[Bew7874]

a disco light with black hole lol

[RLhockey203]

eat acid trip face

[madgamerz104]

perfect desktop for the hippies #LOL

[HelmutVillam]

just dont put it near your harddrive

[MrSkillzo]

@HelmutVillam what are you talking about if you put a magnet near a hard drive it turns into a super computer. Dont tell the millionth person to post a magnet on a tv screen lies thats just not right 8D

[jo3yz3ro]

i tried this.. tis the shittt

[strikerofear]

bad computer > =D

[GiacomoFagozzi]

How about electrical field between HV concacts? And would be interesting to see a magnetiс field of an electromagnet, regulating the current.

[IzzyXgallY]

a black hole!!!

[ThePhoneUpdate]

That looks exactly the same as my Linux distro i have on my memory stick, is it PenDriveLinux? Or just regular Ubuntu/Debian?

[PhxSt0rmz]

I did this with a harddrive magnet. All you do is just turn the monitor off for 5 mins and its back to normal when on. I never had a monitor that stayed.

Now my grammas TV, boy that was a different story, it stayed!

[438426x1]

woah! ate to much shrooms lol

[InflamedIllusion]

WTF? never! -.- the pc doesn't matter about a magnet on the monitor ... :/

[darkfyreaol]

I had a problem with the magnetic field emanating from a transformer located in a locomotive rail yard...magnetized my CRT and I had to spend about ten minutes degaussing the monitor before the picture returned to normal.

[hamanatar]

your so smart you should get an award

[trousien]

whoever wants to get rid of their crt monitor and your parents don't want to just grab a magnetic and put it on it lol

[VideyoJunkei]

love the "black hole" effect! Black and white sets do the black hole thing much easier!

[Mooogled]

i did this at my school and broke the screen lmao.

[benposeno]

@Mooogled how did the screen break

[sideslide23]

I did this at the Best Wester Hotel room and made the screen pinked.

[blinkingblythe]

just make saure you don't use a powerful magnet.

right behind the face of the screen inside of the tube is a metal shadow mask, and if this gets deformed or pulled out of alignment by the magnet, it screws up the image permanently.

[1marcelfilms]

@blinkingblythe but can you still use the screen?

[iseemedia]

Ubuntu? I like it - Ubuntu user myself :D