Reduce the buying power of your money
Just for fun, a company called Storeridge Engineering uses powerful electrical
bursts to actually shrink coins. This involves putting the currency into
a metal coil and then blasting it with more than 100,000 amps.
The surge causes the coil to explode violently, leaving a coin that's been
compacted at the molecular level. A Kennedy half dollar, illustrated at left in
"before" and "after" versions, loses about half its size and gains mysteriously
beautiful radial lines. There are even more hilarious results with bimetal
coins and coins with a hole in the center, such as Japanese yen. The site has
a great explanation and much larger pictures of all this frivolity.
More info
Digg
Del.icio.us
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Other
Permalink
