MetaFilter posts tagged with contraptions

cooking with contraptions

madamjujujive — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:47:46 -0800

Top 10 Food-Based Rube Goldberg Machines (videos) If this type of food preparation is too elaborate for your tastes, the Super-Fast Pancake-Sorting Flexpicker Robot might be more to your style.

this is going to change the world ...

madamjujujive — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:46:22 -0800

Gizmo - using news footage from the 1920s to the 1950s, Howard Smith created an amusing 1977 documentary about contraptions made by the inventors, technophiles, and eccentrics of yesteryear. The last 7 minutes is Letterman interviewing Smith. (Google video, 1 hr., 19 min. Via beans beans good for your heart)

cause and effect contraptions

madamjujujive — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:04:14 -0800

Incredible Machine 01 - clever Japanese Rube Goldberg type devices in action. Film clip, annoying soundtrack alert. (via digg)

Have you driven a couch lately?

mcwetboy — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:06:03 -0800

Brent and Eivind's Couchbike Adventure. "In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada." Via Gadling.

Survival Suits, cyborgs and art for our dangerous times

madamjujujive — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:36:03 -0800

Survival System Train & Other Sculpture - "atomic-powered cyborgs, quasi-animate freight trains, and other absurd and fabulous contraptions populate the universe of Kenji Yanobe. Welcome to the world of the future-past, the unkempt aftermath of Better Living Through Science."