This breakfast-making contraption recently designed by Yuki Suzuki can whip up omelets, butter toast, brew coffee, and squeeze fresh orange juice. It was made out of record players, alarm clocks, and other miscellaneous household items. Though the guy in the video explains the crazy Rube Goldbergian process in Dutch, you really don't need words to appreciate an egg rolling down a slide and paint roller slathering butter onto toast. (And if you do speak Dutch, maybe there's a part about leaving out the bacon?) Watch the video, after the jump....
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The late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, known for his drawings of absurdly complex devices that perform otherwise simple tasks, inspired this cocktail-mixing machine, which allows a seedless cucumber to travel through a matrix of cups until finally sliced and ready to garnish a vodka lemonade. You could probably fix the same drink—with just your hands—in about a minute, but why would you ever do that? The viewing experience is all the more enjoyable with polka music playing at the end....
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Cadbury creme eggs might be gone from drug store sale racks, but don't forget them just yet. As part of Cadbury's Unleash the Goo contest, one runner-up spent six months (yes, half a year) on this complex Rube Goldberg-inspired apparatus, where his egg travels through cups, tight ropes and toilet paper holders before final smooshage. At around 1:30 minutes, there's even a live concert by the always-entertaining, four-piece Smashing Egg Cremes rock band. Creator Joseph Herscher used 30 hot glue gun sticks and 480 pins to create this homemade whirlwind of a ride. Judging by the ingenious design, he was definitely that kid in high school physics class whose homework you wanted to steal. Watch the video, after the...
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