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Add a tactile detent to a dial or drawer

July 18, 2026

In the news this week: Origami-inspired reprogrammable microactuator system — another sign that magnets are quietly getting smarter.

Detent Polymagnets for 4- and 12-position haptics your users can feel.

The catch has always been that engineers don't know it exists. If you're designing a mount, a closure, a connector, or a haptic dial, it's worth ten minutes with a demo kit — the behavior is hard to believe until it's in your hand.

Want to feel it? A demo kit puts the behavior in your hand — align, latch, spring, and twist-release, all from one part.

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Need an actual part, not just an explanation?

The catalogue is sorted by what the magnet has to do — hold, align, latch, turn, resist a sideways pull — because that is what you know when you start looking. If nothing there fits, describe the job and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.

Browse by behaviour Describe the job
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