The Pasta Cycle is a magnetic table. There are stacks of neodymium rare earth magnets mounted on a rotating wheel in its body. The piece is made to be interacted with, and there are several demonstrations that go along with it to highlight the effects of moving magnetic fields. It called the Pasta Cycle because in its first incarnation, it featured rigatoni on its top being dragged around by magnets inside the noodles.

The images and video below are from an exhibit at Sony Wondertechnology Labs in Manhattan. In this setup, hundreds of shiny glass marbles are placed on the upper surface. Small magnets are mixed in with the marbles. When the magnetic wheel spins below the surface, it drags with it the magnets mixed in with the marbles. At the Sony museum, a group of kids invented a game trying to grab the magnets being pulled through the marbles along the top of the piece.