A Machine that Wakes You Up and Gets You Dressed

(Video link here.) At the consistently wonderful The Kids Should See This, we found kinetic artist Joseph Herscher‘s machine for getting himself out of bed and dressed on a sleepy morning. The chain-reaction is astonishing for its creativity, imagination and mesmerizing practicality, everything that Rube Goldberg‘s own inventions embodied. We love (and share) Herscher’s view of the world,

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rube goldberg inspires the crazed inventor in us all

(Video link here.) This morning, the great Manhattan User’s Guide (which is great WAY beyond Manhattan), posted something of a tribute to Rube Goldberg, the guy behind the term Rube Goldberg Machine: “a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation” according to Webster’s. What always delighted me about Rube’s inventions was that they…

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