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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Outsmart a Mouse?

You can open one cabinet per day to find the mouse. Which do you choose?

Jack Murtagh

PublishedMay 29, 2023

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Build Your Own Marble Runs that Last Forever With Powered Gravitrax Pieces

Two new starter sets introduce powered elements that can be remotely triggered.

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedAugust 18, 2022

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12 Fantastically Complex and Mostly Pointless Lego Great Ball Contraptions

Rube Goldberg would be incredibly proud of these Lego machines that do so much for so little.

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedJuly 21, 2021

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Emails Show Texas Officials Shared Climate Denier's Talking Points During Blackouts

As the lights went out during last month’s cold snap, Texas politicians turned to talking points from Alex Epstein,…

Molly Taft

PublishedApril 1, 2021

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TechSploid

It Takes Five Obscenely Complicated Minutes for This Machine to Dispense a Single Piece of Tape

When it comes to Rube Goldberg machines, if you have to ask why, you’ll probably never understand the joy of…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedApril 24, 2018

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TechSploid

This Rube Goldberg Basketball Machine Has Enough Tricks to Be a Harlem Globetrotter

It seems not even basketball court jester is a job that’s safe from from the rise of the machines. Students from…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedFebruary 22, 2018

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TechSploid

This Brilliantly Complex Rube Goldberg Machine Finally Puts Fidget Spinners to Good Use

Having survived the great fidget spinner fad of 2017, the world is now struggling to find ways to put billions of…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedFebruary 5, 2018

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TechSploid

Zone Out With This Hypnotizing Wall-Mounted Rube Goldberg Machine

At my fingertips lies the entire internet, filled with a near-infinite number of digital distractions. So why do I…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedDecember 28, 2017

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TechSploid

It Took 297 Agonizing Tries For This Complex Rube Goldberg Machine to Work Flawlessly

After losing a bet, YouTube’s jackofallspades98 spent four months building one of the most complicated Rube Goldberg…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedSeptember 15, 2017

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TechSploid

This Epic Rube Goldberg Machine Includes a Gravity-Defying Whiteboard Flip

As someone who still struggles to string a bunch of words together into cohesive sentences, I can’t even begin to…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedAugust 23, 2017

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TechSploid

This Rube Goldberg Machine Is the Best Action Movie I've Seen in Years

Most Rube Goldberg machines are designed to complicate a very simple task, but a Japanese TV show called Pitagora…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedApril 20, 2017

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TechSploid

Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Sex Toys Rings in the New Year (NSFW)

Practically any halfway decent Rube Goldberg machine is worth taking a few moments to watch. Sex toys would’ve been…

Rhett Jones

PublishedJanuary 1, 2017

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TechDesign

This Massive Rube Goldberg Machine Uses the Internet to Visit Five Different Cities

Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedNovember 9, 2016

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4/28/16

The HTML Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Vortex You Can't Escape

Every web developer take note: Sebastian Ly Serena has come up with a brilliant way to make your website more…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedApril 28, 2016

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3/20/16

The World's Tiniest Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Watch Parts Is a Masterpiece

The infinite number of ways you can build a complicated Rube Goldberg machine makes it infinitely fascinating to…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedMarch 20, 2016

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TechSploid

I Did Not Expect the End of This Rube Goldberg Machine to Be Like This

Rube Goldberg machines are always fun because you get to see everything happen in a linear fashion and yet still…

Casey Chan

PublishedFebruary 10, 2016

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TechSploid

This Chaotic Rube Goldberg Machine Is the Most Complicated Way to Get a Soda

There are 175 steps in this Rube Goldberg Machine made by berlagawesome and they’re all layered right after each…

Casey Chan

PublishedJanuary 21, 2016

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10/27/15

The World's Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine Requires All Your Patience

Don’t get too excited about stumbling across another video of a dazzlingly fast-moving, complicated Rube Goldberg…

Andrew Liszewski

PublishedOctober 27, 2015

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TechSploid

Science and Post-It notes power this Rube Goldberg machine

3M used 25,000 post its, 75 rolls of that blue painter tape, and a whole bunch of other stuff to make this wildly…

Casey Chan

PublishedAugust 19, 2015

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TechSploid

Impossible Rube Goldberg machine cleverly breaks the concept of reality

When you live in the carefully edited Vine world of magic and wizardry and spells and sorcery, you can make anything…

Casey Chan

PublishedApril 13, 2015

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