A 1970s programmable calculator from Sharp approached the problem with magnetic strips on special cards, and since [Menadue] has one with no cards, he set about making his own. These cards are a ...

“There was a queue of people with exactly the same problem as me,” he recalls. The magnetic stripe was invented by an IBM engineer in the 1960s – his wife was instrumental in the process as ...

After building a USB magnetic stripe reader, [David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on ...

“Magnetic eyelashes are faux lashes with a magnetic strip/band that adheres to your eyes by either sandwiching natural lashes together or using magnetic eyeliner,” explains cosmetologist ...