Gizmodo: dominoes

Collapse Of Berlin Wall Recreated With 1,000 Giant Dominoes

Rosa Golijan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:40:00 EST

On November 9, 1989, thousands rushed through the ruins of the Berlin Wall, celebrating the unity of East and West. 20 years later, millions across the world watched as one thousand seven-and-a-half foot tall dominoes fell marking the occasion.

About six months ago, those Styrofoam dominoes were sent all around to world and painted by school children and artists. Today they were reunited in a 1.5km line where the Berlin Wall once stood. And just like the wall did so many years ago, they fell to deafening cheers. [Dominoaktion and news:lite]

Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes

Sean Fallon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:26:00 EDT

Toppling 7000 dominoes to commemorate the launch of Windows 7 definitely riled up the employees at Microsoft's Hyderabad center in India, but they probably didn't think it through in terms of the jokes it might generate. [Ars Technica]

Dominoes Make the Office Fun Again for Three Minutes

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:20:00 EDT

Created for the Imagine RIT festival at the Rochester Institue of Technology, this video is a testimony of the power of dominoes—which apparently can turn on a photocopier—and office boredom. We like. [DRB]

Dutch Use 4.3 Million Dominoes To Shatter All Domino-Related Records

John Mahoney — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

Dominoes, always a favorite elemental for Rube Goldberg-ian device chain reactions, are unsurprisingly the name of the game at last week's Domino Day in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. That is where Robin Paul Weijers (Mr. Domino!) and his helpers (including Dutch girls suspended on harnesses above the action like Tom Cruise stealing a NOC list) rigged up 4.5 million dominoes and then set them a-falling, artfully rendering Che Guevara, a Sarlacc pit, a Saturn V liftoff and subsequent Apollo re-entry, and oh so much more in tumbling plastic. The list of records broken is impressive.

1. Longest domino spiral (200 m)
2. Highest domino climb (12 m)
3. Smallest domino stone (7 mm)
4. Largest domino stone (4.8 m)
5. Longest domino wall (16 m)
6. Largest domino structure (25,000 stone)
7. Fastest topple of 30 metres of domino stone (4.21 sec, time by Churandy Martina: 3.81 sec)
8. Largest number of domino stone resting on a single domino (727 stones)
9. Largest rectangular level domino field (1 million stones)

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Giant Dominoes Made of 30,000 Dominoes, Fall Like...Falling Dominoes

Kit Eaton — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:45:00 EDT

"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."
Alright...so these are just 30,000 dominoes stacked up in blocks to look a bit like giant dominoes, and tipped over to create a fab tumbling dominoes-made-from-giant-dominoes video, but you get my point. It's Friday, and the video has a cat in it and makes for good watching. [CollegeHumor]