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OK GO – “This Too Shall Pass” Rube Goldberg Maschine Deluxe Version


(Youtube Direkt, via okgo)

Der neue Clip “This Too Shall Pass” der Viral-Combo OK GO feiert heute gestern seine Weltpremiere und protzt dieses Mal mit einer riesigen Rube Goldberg Maschine die in einem One-Take durchläuft. Und da RBM die nerdigste Sache der Welt sind, ist das hier quasi ein Pflichtpost.

The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.

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RFID Rube Goldberg Machine


(Vimeo DirektRFID, via BoingBoing)

Hier die innovativste Rube Goldberg Maschine, die Ihr in einer Weile sehen werdet. Funtioniert komplett ohne Berührungen und mit RFID-Chips. Sweet! Snip von der Projekt-Site:

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.

Rube Goldberg Machine Is Made of 100,000 Toothpicks, Shaped Like San Francisco

Artist Scott Weaver spent 35 years working on this toothpick structure of San Francisco, which required 100,000 toothpicks and has a ball that rolls through the entire thing in Rube Goldberg fashion. But perhaps the best part of this is Weaver’s sentiment towards the project, when he mentions that he loves to “know that I’m building something that people will see later on that took a long time to build for no reason.”

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