These are a couple videos from industrial machine manufacturer TEXTOR of two of their robotic slicing machines designed for cutting meat and cheese for pre-packaged sale. They cut so fast you can’t even see it happen — there’s just a block of meat or cheese on one side of the
You’re all familiar with the useless machine, right? It’s a box with a switch and every time you press the switch a hand comes out of the box and turns the switch back off. And that’s all it does. Pretty useless. “Look who’s talking.” Hey! Your insolence aside, this is
This is a video of 37 different homemade chain reaction machines built by 37 different people played back-to-back so it appears that the ball is traveling from one machine to another like it’s all one giant Rube Goldberg machine. Some of those machines are CLEVER. Some of them less so.
This is a brief video of an automated lemon-stickering machine (I know it was on my Christmas list) doing its thing. Its thing being applying the stickers to lemons so both you and the cashier can identify them at the supermarket. Oh is that a lemon? Shoot, I meant to
This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest Rube Goldberg machine, an entirely overcomplicated machine that takes four and a half minutes and 427 individual steps to turn on a light. For reference, I usually get the job in a single step by yelling, “Hey —
This is another 3D size comparison visualization from MetaBall Studio (previously), this time comparing the sizes of various fictional land vehicles from pop culture. Which vehicle is your favorite? Anything is better than my car, mostly because I don’t have one and my girlfriend has to drive me everywhere. I
This is a short video of TikTok user Shar Aguilar’s father sitting on the floor in her laundry room scratching his leg and watching how the washing machine works because they never had one growing up in the Philippines. Really makes you reconsider all the things you take for granted,
This is a video of the fun-loving Finns of the Hydraulic Press Channel using a 150-ton hydraulic press to drive a bunch of nails simultaneously, culminating with the pressing of 300 nails all at the same time, requiring some 100-tons of pressure to do so. For reference, that’s a lot