http://www.glumbert.com/media/doesnothing
wow–is all I have to say. I love gadgets like this and I have to say this one is impressive.
Wow.
The presence of a Ribena bottle lends me to think that is filmed in Britain, which means it should correctly be a Heath Robinson machine.
(“Heath Robinson” is now a phrase in the UK, as I suspect “Rube Goldberg” is in the US. I also think Mr Robinson copied Mr Goldberg.)
Damn, that was impressive. I wish the video had been a bit better, though, because I couldn’t always tell what was happening. Did anyone catch what was making the chess pieces move?
I was waiting for “Powerhouse” to start up anytime.
It Doesn’t Make Breakfast At All! All It Does Is Shoot You!
My favorite is still the Honda commercial, which was filmed over four days (according to Snopes) and involves no trick photography or CGI. It’s two real-time takes stitched together (the stitch takes place at around the one-minute mark–you can see the flooring change a tiny bit, although with Youtube quality, it’s hard to tell.) And the stitch only occurs, supposedly, because space limitations wouldn’t allow them to do this all in one continuous take.
I thought, magnets under the board? But it went by so fast. I can’t tell either.
Someone has an awful lot of sports and music equiment. And a lot of wire!
Holy cow. That’s impressive.
I think that’s an automatic chessboard. I’ve seen them; they move the pieces by themselves.
I like the bit in the middle where one phone phones the other. 
hey that was way cool too! I hadn’t seen that one before
I love this stuff 
There’s a show every morning on public TV in between the shows for little kids called Pythagoras Switch. It’s only about five minutes and always surprises me with how clever it is. One of the regular features is a different Rube Goldberg machine that brings up the show’s logo.
They also do “algorithm exercises” which are a parody of the “morning exercises” done by the same network. In this case, each exercise interacts with the person next to you.
Around 2:30 they start demonstrating for larger groups.
There’s a youtube link to 967 prison inmates in the Philippines doing this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjMd2Vabcv8&feature=related. If I ran a prison…
Followup: oh. my. god. Same inmates doing MJ’s Thriller
That was pretty awesome, but obviously took more than one take. I liked a lot of the little touches, like the bottles (or whatever they were) ringing out the Close Encounters theme.
How fun is that? Thanks for sharing.
I remember a British TV show from the early 80’s where the contestants would have to make a Rube Goldberg type machine to solve certain tasks. I think it was called something like the Great Egg Race. Do any dopers across the pond remember it?
Heh. I spent about 5 hours of my life once watching those…
Pi-ta-go-ra Su-wi-chu!
That’s where I want to do my time when I get sent up.
Hmm, after getting home from work and rewatching some, I see now it’s su-wi-chi…
In my defense, I don’t actually speak japanese…