Rube Goldberg machine--a machine that performs a simple task in a very complicated way
Nokia says in a blog post, "What better way to celebrate the coming together of our histories than with a
Rube Goldberg machine, where every part has an equally important role to play in the larger story.
It's no dry social-research thesis: With Picking Up, Nagle joins the likes of Jane Jacobs and Jacob Riis, writers with the chutzpah to dig deep into the
Rube Goldberg machine we call the Big Apple and emerge with a lyrical, clear-eyed look at how it works.--Sydney Brownstone
Instead visitors will be greeted by the sight of several hands-on stations of exhibits such as a giant marble run, a
Rube Goldberg and a music box where "the focus isn't on learning, what you learn isn't the point; it's what you do, the experience that you have that's important".
In fact, many of the
Rube Goldberg fingerings I foisted upon myself in younger days were precisely because I did categorically mistrust "given" fingerings and assumed guilt before innocence.
As systems go, it's a little more
Rube Goldberg than BMW.
"Old video games used to be marked by a kind of
Rube Goldberg effect, but here the audience helps navigate renowned game designer Ray Pinter through a social world and interact with other characters in meaningful ways," explains Chappell.
On the personal side, his family and friends will remember him for his courtly, old world manners, his fabulous breakfasts over a wood burning stove, his "absent minded professor" persona, his "
Rube Goldberg" home fixes, and for always asking, "Do you need anything?" even when he could no longer do anything for himself.
We know this solution may sound like something
Rube Goldberg thought it up but it has worked to oust objects stubbornly stuck in a gun barrel.
Our best models are
Rube Goldberg contraptions cobbled together from older models, modified and tweaked to add new physics, assumptions, and constraints.
In a brilliant
Rube Goldberg design, this produces enough agitation to allow the active ingredients to dissolve slowly.
Alexander Kerfuchs, the first-person narrator of young Austrian author Clemens Setz's novel Die Frequenzen (The frequencies), short-listed for the 2009 German Book Prize and awarded the Bremen Literature Prize, at one point recalls his childhood fascination with the idea of the
Rube Goldberg machine: "I dreamed of it for several consecutive nights, as if it were a vision of my own future." The protagonist's life does indeed unfold as part of an intricate chain reaction, much like one of those constructions that performs a simple task in an exceedingly complex fashion.
is dedicated to
Rube Goldberg, an American cartoonist and inventor famous for drawing and creating complicated machines designed to perform very simple tasks.
More familiar selections include the OK Go music video "This Too Shall Pass," which features a
Rube Goldberg apparatus, a complicated machine designed to perform a simple task, and the "Human Mirror" video, in which a subway car is lined by apparent twins mimicking each other's movements, by the comedy troupe Improv Everywhere.