Product Description
These colours might look basic, but they are so much more...
A perfect bubble gum pink! Use it to lift your mood. This colour is playful!
Take your Thinking Putty to work with you and leave it on your desk. You'll find yourself tearing off a handful and using it to relieve stress while your brain ponders infinite creative possibilities. Soon after, you'll find your own unconscious energies breaking through -- creativity you didn't even know HAD! Sculptures and Dali-esque designs will flow from your own hands and "work" may even be transformed into FUN?!?!
Thinking Putty is silicone based, not clay or earth based like other modeling compounds meaning Thinking Putty will never dry out or crumble. Completely inert, non-toxic, and safe. Also, Thinking Putty contains no latex compounds. It safe for use by people with sensitivity to latex and will not promote the development of latex allergies. You should NEVER put Thinking Putty into your mouth or eat Thinking Putty. If a small amount is accidentally ingested, have no fear, you’ll be able to play with it again in a few days.
Features:
- Each metal tin is hand packed with 15g of Thinking Putty, much more than you get in a plastic egg!
- Thinking Putty is in a class of its own - with its own unique physical properties. Thinking Putty is more similar to Silly Putty than other "putty" products.
- Thinking Putty does not leave a sticky residue on your hands. You won’t feel like you need to "wash up" after playing.
- Thinking Putty stretches like rubber, bounces like a ball, tears like paper, and can shatter like ceramic.
- Unlike all other products, Thinking Putty comes in adult-sized handfuls and a rainbow of really awesome colours!
- Made in the USA!
The History of Thinking Putty:
So exactly what is this stuff? Where did it come from?
During World War II, America’s supplies of natural rubber was scarce. The Japanese had occupied many areas in the South Pacific where rubber trees are found. Thinking Putty and many other silicone rubber products were developed during World War II as American industries searched for rubber substitutes that could be used in place of natural rubber tires, gaskets, and seals.
In 1936, at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Dr. Earl Warrick began experimenting with "organosilicon" chemistry - combining silicon (think: sand, glass, computer chips) with carbon (think: you and me, charcoal, and fossil fuels).
In 1943, he left the institute to join the newly formed Dow Corning Corporation. His research was refocused – help the war effort by developing a synthetic rubber substitute. Although he failed to produce a suitable rubber before the end of the war, one result of his experiments was a Silicone Bouncing Putty (the primary ingredient in Thinking Putty).
Although it had no industrial use, he kept some around - lucky for us, as it made a nifty toy!
In the late 1990s our crazy inventor (named, funnily enough, Crazy Aaron) in the USA created a new compound based on the classic Silicone Bouncing Putty formula. Thinking Putty stretches like rubber, bounces like a ball, tears like paper, and can shatter like ceramic.
