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10 Gadgets With Mind-Boggling Moving Parts

10 Gadgets With Mind-Boggling Moving Parts

At their best, gadgets transcend the world of technology and become "living" works of art. The following ten gadgets are awe-inspiring in their complexity, mind boggling in their motion and beautiful enough to stand alongside the work of any old master. Naturally, there is a clock or two, but there are also calculators, a Rube Goldberg machine and a crazy moving building rounding out the list.

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