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Everything you need for a romantic evening in one move. One move for you, that is. The machine makes dozens the get it done. -via Buzzfeed
Joseph Herscher turns the page of his newspaper with flair. If you are a bit confused by some of the steps, they are all explained in an interactive graphic at the New York Times. Link -via Cynical-C
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2D Photography’s Rube Goldberg photography-themed machine took over six months to construct. Even the photobooth had to be built from scratch to mimic the real thing. Over 26 people aided in the construction of the machine. The video is amazing, and well worth the results. Here’s hoping such effort pays off and goes viral. Worked for OK Go!
HEYHEYHEY, the studio behind Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine, or just Melvin) designed this Rube Goldberg machine with a bit of a twist–instead of just performing simple tasks with mind-bending inefficiency, Melvin’s also in the business of self-promotion. While Melvin is performing, he takes pictures, makes videos of his audience, then uploads them to his blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts. He also screen-prints merchandise. All of these things can be found on Melvin’s site. Link
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Purdue University holds an annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for students from colleges all over. A world record was set this year, as the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers team of 17 students built a contraption that took 244 steps to water a flower. That beat the existing world record of 230 steps. Read all about it at Popular Mechanics. Link -via Boing Boing
Alex Crawford and Austin Nelson get their pictures taken by a Rube Goldberg contraption that includes dominoes! They constructed it for a Multimedia Installation class project. -via Boing Boing
Comments Off In the 2011 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue, 11 teams compete to water a plant in 20 or more steps. Here’s the winning entry:
The winning entry was based on a time machine that followed the history of the world from the big bang to the present. It took 212 steps to finally reach a symbol of hope for the future, a mystery box that, when opened by the machine, produced a plant and a watering can.
Captain Zach Umperovitch said the 17 team members spent 2,500 man hours building the machine.
Paul Di Filippo of Weird Universe has another video clip: Link
Brewing beer is, as you can see, an incredibly complex process. The brewery Trumer International put together this video showing how it’s done.
Link via Make | Company Website
Robert Lamb spent a day and a half building an elaborate Rube Goldberg device in order to propose to his girlfriend. The video includes his initial, failed test runs. The actual proposal comes at 7:05.
Took me 9.5 years to ask my fiancee to Marry me, now she knows why!
She said ‘yes’.
via Gizmodo
Here at Neatorama, we love Rube Goldberg machines! So enjoy Wired’s gallery of nine such setups, including “The Falling Water” — a cocktail-making Rube Goldberg machine by Joseph Herscher. It mixes vodka, lemonade, ice, and a slice of cucumber.
Sure, you liked OK Go’s first video for the song “This Too Shall Pass”, but you’ll love this Rube Goldberg production as well! This official video for the recorded version was directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. -via Buzzfeed
Tom Baynham and Ben Tyers, graduate students in mechanical engineering at Cambridge, created this enormous Rube Goldberg machine that stretches over an entire residence. They call it “The Contraption II.”
via DVICE | Official Website
The Breakfast Machine is an art installation by Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura that makes a full breakfast for users through an elaborate series of Rube Goldberg-like devices. Pictured above is the section that prepares orange juice from scratch. It was featured at the Dutch Design Double design fair in Amsterdam. Video (in Dutch) at the link.
Link via GearFuse | Yuri Suzuki’s Website
People love watching unbelievably intricate contraptions designed to perform simple tasks. Days to design and build, a minute or two to use (depending on how many times something goes wrong), and possible YouTube stardom are involved. Eat Me Daily has collected videos of ten Rube Goldberg contraptions that use food, make food, or deliver food. Link -via Metafilter
Holy Moley, it’s a wireless Rube Goldberg contraption. Nearness, a video by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall uses RFID chips to activate each step.
The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close.
Link -via Boing Boing
At the 20th Annual Richard Opie Tournament at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, a the Pewaukee Longhorns battled the Wildcats in a close game of basketball.
With a tie game and seconds left in the fourth quarter of the final game of the championship, the Wildcats took one final shot from the other end of the court and … you’ll just have to see the shot for yourself!
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My sweet tooth must be in full effect tonight because I somehow keep stumbling upon posts about donuts and cupcakes and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Last year, Cadbury held a contest for fans to submit videos of the delicious chocolatey goodness going splat. They called it their “Here today, goo tomorrow” campaign, and some of them are pretty awesome. Check out this Rube Goldberg contraption – it’s really complicated. My favorite part is the Smashing Creme Eggs band.
But fans of Andy Samberg and SNL digital shorts will appreciate this one – it’s a tribute to the “Dear Sister” short.
Via Cakespy
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