The Vibelight Extendable Magnetic Flashlight with Telescoping ... so you can stick the Vibelight to a metal surface or use the body itself to pick up items, too. This gadget might look like ...

It is also grade school science to show that neither an electromagnet nor a permanent magnet will pick up nonferrous items ... to produce a force on the metal it interacts with.

Can your magnet pick up two clips in a chain like this ... which generates a force that pulls on things that are made of certain kinds of metal (like paper clips). The magnetic field around ...