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 »

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 »

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 »

Japanese Dessert Machine Needs Better Spoon Launcher (Among Other Things)

More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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]

More »