This is a video of Fingerbirgit, an automaton built by Hknssn, who describes himself as “creator, inventor and slightly insane.” I trust him. The automaton is powered via hand crank or lowering weight, and uses 1,170 pieces to delicately spin a globe in its five talons while the fingers take turns returning to their starting positions. That’s remarkable. I don’t know why, but automatons have always fascinated me. Maybe if I spent some time really thinking about it I could figure out what it is about me that makes me likes them so much, but I’ve always been fine just watching them thinking, “Holy sh!t that’s rad.” Why ruin a perfectly good thing?