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04/12/2006

Incredible Machines from Japan

We uncovered a great video compiliation of incredible Rube Goldberg-like (look below for a short description) machines from Japan. Clip after the jump.
From the article: Rube Goldberg drew his "Inventions" as contraptions that satirized the new technology and gadgets of the day. His drawings, using simple machines and household items already in use, were incredibly complex and wacky, but somehow (perhaps it was because Rube was a graduate engineer) the "Inventions" always had an ingenious, logical progression as they worked to finish their task.

[via MAKE]

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There are 69 comments about this post (3 pages).

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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:01pm by frenchtoast
...crazy!
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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:09pm by Primo
Wow, if I could only build a few of these in my room...
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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:33pm by MasterWu
Now this just gave me ideas, I have tons of junk parts laying around, might as well make good use of em
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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:41pm by Radioactive Jam
Wow, if I could only read Japanese I might be able to "get" the punchlines... :-P
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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:46pm by Bry Fry
Free Ipod Nano 4 gig http://www.anygift4seven.com/?r=121
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Posted at 04/12/2006 5:55pm by Dekan
all ive gotten is it is a Sweet Tea add, and an ingenious one at that
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Posted at 04/12/2006 6:12pm by Joe D
Can anyone enlighten us about what the saying is at the end of all the segments? I'm sure we have some Japanese viewers on this web site.
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Posted at 04/12/2006 6:46pm by The Gibbon
Yes - that phrase gets bloody annoying after a while. I'd at least like to know what it means...
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Posted at 04/12/2006 6:59pm by Alex
It says "I can't Get Any". Yeah, honestly you have this much spare time either you can't get any or you have alot of spare in your heads...meaning you need a life.
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Posted at 04/12/2006 7:39pm by Johnny
No Alex, i beleiev these little clips were played in the middle during some TV show in Japan, its like tiny intermissions, the "Catch Phases" were probably the name of the TV show. Whay would anyone do somelike this unless they were going to get payed for it? I wonder if this was the same guy who made that Honda Accord Euro commercial???
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Posted at 04/12/2006 7:58pm by Gunsmoke
ah,This is a part of "PITAGORASUITCH"!,TV Program of Japanese broadcasting station. "Pythagoras"+"Switch" =Pythagoraswitch It has no mean ...or has slight mean ,maybe. Japanese enjoys this sound of the word. Don't think ,just feel ;)
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Posted at 04/12/2006 8:23pm by whoandwhy
I'm glad they "uncovered" this video. I "uncovered" it last night too while randomly floating around google video. Fun to watch though.
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Posted at 04/12/2006 10:58pm by Garywht
Cool, I was doing that when I was three.
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Posted at 04/13/2006 01:10am by Ben
Anyone know where that euro car commerial is? that was awesome! and so is this!
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Posted at 04/13/2006 02:28am by yourself, you can have fun
ben, i believe you are talking about the honda commercial. yeah, it's PITAGORA SUICHI, Pythagorus' Switch. This kind of segment is played inbetween educational skits on basically the Japanese-origin version of Sesame Street, played on the NHK, the Japanese PBS. I don't remember the show being called "Pitagora suichi," I think this describes this particular type of Rube Goldberg device, using mainly slopes and balls. But, then again, I never really watched that show excpet for these awesome segments. Maybe because of all the math?
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Posted at 04/13/2006 06:25am by Techbuddy
Honda Commercial http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/honda-ad.html
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Posted at 04/13/2006 08:56am by NewtonCorp
crazy things...I wonder how much spare time did the guy have.... ^^ If only i could do the same things :p
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Posted at 04/13/2006 10:57am by snakedragon
just curious, whats the google video link to that?
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Posted at 04/13/2006 11:33am by Wil Taylor Sr
Same as previous commentor, very interesting, now if I only could understand Japanese. . .
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Posted at 04/13/2006 1:57pm by hOGA
GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTt
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Posted at 04/13/2006 4:39pm by jimmy
w t f what the f
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Posted at 04/13/2006 5:54pm by LiQiuD’s Lounge » Blog Archive » Two interesting videos…
[...] I loved it…too bad it was all japanese [...]
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Posted at 04/13/2006 9:05pm by lee
I saw this 3 weeks ago... good times anyway.
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Posted at 04/13/2006 11:24pm by loppydisk
i like these kind of stuff lots of creativity and hard work, you likly have to try each one at least ten times to get all of it set up right.
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Posted at 04/14/2006 2:25pm by Maltcolm
WOW!!!!! Les japonais sont trop fort!
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