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Astonishing mechanisms
David Jenkins - 3/10/07 at 03:25 PM

If you liked the Honda advert, then you might like some of these... the aim is to have a pointless chain of events that lead up to the display of a Japanese phrase...

Mechanisms

(It's quite a long video, and some bits are boring, but the good ones are VERY good!)

I like the last one...


VinceGledhill - 3/10/07 at 03:54 PM

yeah the last one is brilliantly worked out.

Must have taken ages. Booring gits.


David Jenkins - 3/10/07 at 03:58 PM

Yes - it's the triviality and pointlessness of it all that makes it so fascinating!


scoobyis2cool - 3/10/07 at 11:33 PM

If you want to find gazillions more, just search for "Rube Goldberg" - that's the technical name for them, named after the cartoonist who invented them dontyaknow

Pete


iank - 3/10/07 at 11:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
If you want to find gazillions more, just search for "Rube Goldberg" - that's the technical name for them, named after the cartoonist who invented them dontyaknow

Pete


Or search for Heath Robinson the English guy, who 'invented' them a few years before him


scoobyis2cool - 4/10/07 at 08:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
Or search for Heath Robinson the English guy, who 'invented' them a few years before him

Haha ok fine you win But I'm pretty sure the Indians invented them even earlier - just look at the massive rolling ball in Temple of Doom!

Pete