Calling All Rubes

While Josh has kept himself busy posting up and down on the site I have had a more leisurely past few days, relaxing and enjoying the break from everything afforded by Thanksgiving. But now I am back and ready to get posting again.

First up today we have a little something for all of you creative gadget type folks out there. The Discovery channel is working on a show based on Rube Goldberg type inventions, setting up a team of artists, scientists, engineers, architects, designers and other like-minded folks to create Rube Goldberg-like contraptions to do “impossible challenges.” They are looking for folks between 25 and 3.

If you are interested in more information check out the casting call posted on the Make magazine forums.

Just plain neat!

So, I am not sure if this is going to work, but I found this video (which I am attempting to embed here) of a chain reaction of events, just kind of neat, click on it to get it to play. It reminds me of is a 4 minute clip from “The Way Things Go”, a 30 minute chain reaction. I’d say it is worth checking out. I keep seeing it referred to as a Rube Goldberg invention design. It isn’t. Rube Goldberg had complex chain reactions to accomplish simple tasks. This chain reaction doesn’t actually do anything (besides set some things on fire). A better example of Rube Goldberg would be this commercial for Honda from the UK.