• As portable full stops (periods) to teach writing skills
• For removing foreign (bodily) objects
• Immobilizing roots of barley plants
• Blocking raingauge funnels for calibration
• Gas flow regulation in stout can widget testing
• Making artificial lesions for x ray imaging tests
• As a semiconducting paste to affix conductors for high voltage cable testing
• Finger immobilizing during fingerprint pore area assessment
• Making sense of the biochemistry of proteins
• As an effective sound-attenuating ear plug
• As a simple mass load for the eardrum in PET scans
• Making labyrinths for a hot ice computer
There are though (as with any substance) things that it just shouldn’t be used for : See:
• A novel method to remove an unusual intravesical foreign body (Blu-Tack™)
Notes:
[1] Our illustration is loosely inspired by the work of Martin Creed.
See: Work No. 79, Some Blu- Tack kneaded, rolled into a ball, and depressed against a wall, 1993.
[2] Can we clarify that Blu-Tack is Blu-Tack White that has been dyed blue, rather than Blu-Tack that has been dyed white.
[3] Some publications use a hyphen in the name – indeed Bostik itself sometimes does, and sometimes doesn’t (see links above). We are sticking to the hyphenated version.