Seven industries, one design variable.
Where engineered magnetization is already shipping, where it’s been demonstrated, and where it plausibly goes next. Every example is tagged by evidence level — we separate the billion-unit realities from the vendor demos and the informed speculation.
Consumer electronics
MagSafe and the Qi2 magnet ring, breakaway power cords, Apple Pencil docking, contained-field mounts. Alignment at phone scale is the category’s biggest shipping proof.
Read the dossier → 02Medical
MED-EL’s rotatable MRI-compatible implant magnet, Levita’s FDA-cleared magnetic surgery, magnet-compression anastomosis trials. Magnet architecture turned an MRI contraindication into MR-Conditional.
Read the dossier → 03Automotive & EV
The ABS multipole encoder ring a billion cars ride on, Rosenberger’s self-mating EV charge connector, electropermanent press-shop clamping, in-cabin Qi2.
Read the dossier → 04Aerospace & defense
NASA’s Prandtl-M twist-release — the one verified coded-magnet flight customer — plus Astroscale’s orbital capture demo and the magnetic-cleanliness problem.
Read the dossier → 05Robotics & automation
OnRobot’s power-loss-proof magnetic gripper, Magswitch welding-cell tooling, electropermanent quick-change, MIT’s self-assembling M-Blocks.
Read the dossier → 06Industrial & manufacturing
Coded safety interlocks that defeat the tape-a-magnet-on-it bypass — a regulated shipping category — plus quick mold change and poka-yoke keying.
Read the dossier → 07Consumer, furniture & packaging
Fidlock buckles, push-to-open furniture latches, luxury magnetic closures, magnetic construction toys — and closure “feel” as a brand signature.
Read the dossier →The honesty system
Most examples here use engineered multipole magnetization broadly — encoder rings, MagSafe, Halbach rotors. Correlation-coded magnets (Polymagnet) are the young end of that family with one verified customer: NASA. Tags on every card keep the difference visible: shipping demonstrated illustrative