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more about #rubegoldberg more comments → G-Ram: Holy fuck, all that for some ramen? more » Bos'un's Mate: Sorry guys, but I'm sticking with the classic Rube Goldberg breakfast of three (count 'em) Ice Cream Sundaes. more » ZanderCachifa: At least it doesn't shoot you. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: No bacon. No win. Better luck next time Yuri.. more » Nick: i still only recognize the one from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. that one had a live chicken. more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Bland watery coffee and scrambled eggs all messed up, with no seasoning and leaving the kitchen all dirty... now we need overdone bacon, and it's the ... more » Platypus Man: The Family Guy one was pretty good... [www.hulu.com] (I couldn't get Hulu to embed...) My apologies to those of you outside the US, but no one else re... more » QuarterToTomorrow: For fuck's sake, it's "omelette"! That's probably one of the most retarded American spelling idiosyncrasies. more » TeagueNoppa: OMG! Ponies! That's not a very Kosher thing to say Mr. Phonies. more » FooSchnickens - BPH Free: This video instantly fails for not having Danny Elfman playing in the background. more » -
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10 Rube Goldberg Machines For Food Lovers
Do you love eating? Do you love amusingly complex machinery? If the answer is yes on both counts, get a load of Eat Me Daily's list of the top ten food-based Rube Goldberg Machines. More » -
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The Ultimate Breakfast Machine Is Complete!
Earlier this month, designer Yuri Suzuki called for help to create a Pee Wee Hermanesque breakfast machine. Now, the heavenly contraption is done. Here's a rundown of the machine (not in English, but eggs and toast are pretty universal): More » -
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Designer Wants Your Help To Build a Rube Goldberg Breakfast Machine
Starting today, Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki will be soliciting help from visitors to the Platform21 show in Amsterdam to develop a working Rube Goldberg breakfast machine. More » -
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RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
Meant to illustrate "designerly applications of RFID," the Nearness concept from London design firm Berg also illustrates how to strip all of the fun out of Rube Goldberg machines. More » -
#humor
Ever Wish a Rube Goldberg Machine Would Set Itself on Fire and Kick You in the Balls?
I'm assuming not. But I do suspect it's something you'd all like to see. It happens to be your lucky day. More » -
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Creme That Egg: Rube Goldberg Machine Destroys Easter In 8,000 Easy Steps
I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn' ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via Jezebel] -
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15 Rolling Ball Sculptures In Action
As you know, the allure of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions is well documented. There is just something captivating about watching a ball make its way down a complicated track. If you agree, than you will certainly find something to enjoy in OObjects list of 15 rolling ball sculpture videos. It features everything from commercial kits to a 70 foot tall Energy Machine in the Hong Kong Science Museum. [OObject] -
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Rube Goldberg Voting Machine Is Irreverent, Thankfully Irrelevant
Well, the election is over! Luckily, it was pretty clear from about two hours in who would be the winner this time around , so even if there were a couple of iffy voting hijinks, it wouldn't be anything to take up to the Supreme Court. Still, some post-election voting humor never hurt anybody – check out this Rube Goldberg machine by some kids over at the University of California Berkeley and feel relieved that, unlike in 2000, it's easy this year to laugh about this kind of stuff. [Thanks Roland!] -
#ambition
IDEO Sets Up Ridiculously Large, Continent-Spanning Rube Goldberg Device
Sure, we've seen a number of fun Rube Goldberg devices in our day, but none with the scale and ambition of this one made by IDEO. I mean, how can you argue with a statement like this: More » -
#epicgadgets
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.More » -
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Rube Goldberg Machine Is Made of 100,000 Toothpicks, Shaped Like San Francisco
Artist Scott Weaver spent 35 years working on this toothpick structure of San Francisco, which required 100,000 toothpicks and has a ball that rolls through the entire thing in Rube Goldberg fashion. But perhaps the best part of this is Weaver's sentiment towards the project, when he mentions that he loves to "know that I'm building something that people will see later on that took a long time to build for no reason." The nine-foot-tall creation is called "Rolling Through the Bay" and is currently on display at the Sonoma County Fair in Northern California. [Press Democrat via Laughing Squid] -
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The Top 10 Rube Goldberg Machines Featured On Film
Who doesn't love the intricacy of Rube Goldberg machines? A celebration of the most mechanical, complex and absurd way of performing an everyday task, there's nothing quite like watching a cuckoo clock set off a bowling ball that rolls into a pie pan which lifts up some guy's pants before he gets arrested for exposure—again. And combined with the over-the-top designs of Hollywood movies, these gadgets of pure imagination find their most welcome (and plausible) home. More » -
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The Greatest Hangover Machine Never Built
Oof, my head. The trouble with being a weekend warrior is the day after. This morning I have a troupe of miniature MC Hammers inside my head, stomping in perfect time to the pile-driver thump, and chanting: "STOP! Hangover time!" Kingsley Amis best put the feeling into words in his novel Lucky Jim. "His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum." Oral hygiene aside, my brain has shrunk to the size of a frozen pea, and I can feel it rattling around inside my head like *ponders myopically* God, I don't know what. I'm HUNGOVER for God's sake. Is there a gadget that can help me? Or am I going to have to build one myself? More » -
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Purdue's 156-Step Burger Maker Wins Rube Goldberg Contest
We've brought you Rube Goldberg-style clocks and toys, but none of them are a match for the 156-step device that's just won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. This year's challenge was to assemble a burger with vegetables, condiments and two bun halves. The meat was pre-cooked... a sensible idea to avoid fires and explosions: you'll understand when you look at the great pics of the machines that MAKE took. Beneath the gallery you'll find a demo video of some of them in action. Sadly we don't have one of the complete 156-step run yet, so you'll just have to imagine its fantasticness. More » -
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Q-BA-Maze Marble Toy Teaches Kids About Construction, Balls
Combining the concepts of LEGO with the concepts of Rube Goldberg, the Q-BA-MAZE gives you a set of 20 to 50 pieces that you put together to make a descending maze for marbles. It sounds boring from our description, so if you watch the video you'll notice that it's...only slightly less boring. This may be cool to use to teach your kids about gravity, mazes and the fact that you shouldn't put marbles up your nose, but we'd be much more impressed if there were more pieces that did different things. [Q-BA-MAZE] -
#marblemadness
Make Rube Goldberg-Style Marble Madness Mechanisms
If you are a fan of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions, you will love Think Geek's Cological Marble Run Construction Set. It contains everything you need to create your own marble mayhem—including 23 different types of marble-moving mechanisms like rolling cars and whacking mallets. More info and a video after the jump. More » -
#adsdoneright
New Guinness Rube Goldberg Ad Directed by Bravia 'Bouncing Balls' Creator
This new Guinness ad, airing for the first time tonight in the UK and shot over the course of a week in a village in Argentina, features a sweet Rube Goldberg contraption made out of everything from dominoes to old cars to flaming bales of hay. Apparently sequences of it were shot upwards of 15 times, so it probably wasn't a true Rube Goldberg contraption from start to finish, but that doesn't make it any less cool. It was directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, the brains behind Sony's iconic "bouncing balls" Bravia ad. Dude sure knows how to make a commercial, no? [Telegraph via Boing Boing] -
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Japanese Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Ramen in Six Long Minutes
While this bowl of Ramen may not be instant &mdash just the way Adam Frucci likes 'em &mdash its creation is utterly, butterly wonderful, if a tad long-winded. Six minutes in the making, this Japanese Rube Goldberg-esque machine uses skittles, model cars and what looks like miniature junk sails to make a bowl of steaming noodles with an egg on top. The commentator should have got a medal for keeping up the excitement levels. [Spluch] -
#fire
Pyromaniac's Delight Rube Goldberg Machine
Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do. So just hit play and prepare to be entertained to an embarrassing degree. More » -
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Rube Goldberg Dog Food Dispenser
It's been a while since we have seen a solid Rube Goldberg machine, so here is the latest from Instructables member Eswolowski. It is small, yet complex and accomplishes a task of feeding a dog. At first I thought it was a bit overkill to feed the dog, then I realized that is the entire purpose of the Rube Goldberg machine. More » -
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Maker Faire: Life-Size Mouse Trap Game
I'm not sure what the recent trend is, but everyone seems to be life-sizing my childhood. Remember the game Mousetrap? Yes, the game that was fun for 30 seconds, and not worth the effort and time it took to set it up. Someone has created a life-size replicate of the Mousetrap Rube Goldberg machine. Rather than dropping the cage on the mouse and cheese, like in the original, this monstrous version will drop a safe on any object of your choosing (to crush and destroy). It will be on display at the Maker Faire next month. More » -
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Rube Goldberg Beer Pouring Device
Lengthy of the video and shaky camera skills aside, this is a pretty good Rube Goldberg machine. And best of all, the purpose of the machine is to pour a beer. Unfortunately the beer may be warm by the time it is actually poured. Unless you want to see an overview of an entire contraption, skip to about 2:10 into the movie to see the machine function. More » -
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Frigits Mini Rube Goldberg Toys
We've seen some pretty awesome Rube Goldberg machines in the past, but if you were too lazy or don't have enough room to build one yourself, Frigits may be the solution. This is a set of miniature contraptions that allow you to set up a Rube Goldberg-style machine on anything capable of holding magnets. Impress your friends at the office, or just set one up on the refrigerator. Regardless, it is a easier and painless solution to filling that Rube Goldberg fix. The complete Frigits Deluxe set goes for $30. More »
