rube goldberg
Watch the World’s Largest Useless Machine Light a Christmas Tree
The epic track involved 412 individual mechanical steps and ran for 10 minutes.
Massive Rube Goldberg Machine to Trigger Chain Reaction Across America
This weekend, the 4th-annual Deconstruct: America weekend hackathon is taking on new dimensions with a chain reaction that spans the entire continent.
Jose Ramirez's Helmet Disregards Laws of Universe, Somehow Hits Him in the Ass
Either this helmet had some insane english on it, or it is not bound by science.
Pendulum and Egg Dance in Artist's Curious Contraption
Los Angeles-based artist Neil Mendoza has created yet another invention that investigates balance and survival.
An Animator Built a Giant Etch A Sketch Made of Dominoes
Artist FlippyCat turns dominos into a massive Etch A Sketch with stop motion magic.
The 300-Step Competitive Balloon-Popping Machine Totally Blew It
When you spend six months and 5,000 hours perfecting a "300-step, Guinness Record-breaking Rube Goldberg contraption":http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2012/120331RubeNational.html, it's gotta be a bummer to come in second place to some wimpy-ass...
If Rube Goldberg Smoked Trees
A kind of "Rube Goldberg machine":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/30/i-m-obsessed-with-the-rube-goldberg-competition for stoners by stoners that gets stoners stoned? via "BoingBoing":http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/operating-instructio.html