# Ingenious Rube Goldberg device **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616 "2012-12-31T00:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/1 "2012-12-31T00:39:02Z")
I think this is incredibly clever: [Check it out](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/12/isaac-newton-vs-rube-goldberg-a-gravity-defying-chain-reaction/) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/2 "2012-12-31T02:46:18Z")
That makes my brain hurt. I want to see the video on how they did it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/3 "2012-12-31T02:58:53Z")
[Here’s a much longer one by the same folks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxd8hzOcQ). Not quite as brain-twisty as the one in the OP, but still pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/4 "2012-12-31T03:15:03Z")
How did they do that? ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/5 "2012-12-31T05:40:28Z")
Magnets. How do they work? ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/6 "2012-12-31T08:44:38Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [Here’s a much longer one by the same folks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxd8hzOcQ). Not quite as brain-twisty as the one in the OP, but still pretty cool. A much more standard set up, I liked the photography theme. I think there was a small tribute to OKGO’s Rube Goldberg video in there. One of the balls rolls by some paper figures that are spattered with paint at about the 2:36 mark. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/7 "2012-12-31T10:10:24Z")
Yep, except it’s a not a ball but a gear because it’s also a tribute to the awesome [Honda Cog commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo). ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingenious-rube-goldberg-device/645616/8 "2012-12-31T12:30:43Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Yep, except it’s a not a ball but a gear because it’s also a tribute to the awesome [Honda Cog commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo). Yeah, forgot to change that after I found the section to get the timestamp. :smack: