Brilliant stuff

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  Anonymous says:

  February 26, 2007 at 3:24 pm

  You can do anything with stored energy. This was as useful as a catflap in a submarine, and not worth its carbon footprint.
  Are things a bit slow on the chess front?

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  Anthony says:

  February 26, 2007 at 4:03 pm

  Neat! I love Rube Goldberg-type devices!

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  Joshua says:

  February 26, 2007 at 5:42 pm

  Have you seen this Honda commercial?

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  Anonymous says:

  February 26, 2007 at 7:25 pm

  Wow, that’s extraorinarily well done. I like how it was all done with normal household items. (Particularly amusinng was the use to which the vibrating cell phone was put.)

  Two questions:

  – Was this filmed all in one take? It looks as if it would have been exceptionally difficult to follow the action with single set of cameras. One never sees the operator of another one of the, presumably, many cameras.

  – Is there a chess set out there that behaves like that? That is, is there a chess set which moves pieces automatically and “resigns” by tipping over the king?

  Joshua, you beat me to it, I, too, was going to reference the Honda Commercial. Second best is the “Mythbusters” Mentos (TM) powered rube-Goldberg contraption, which was, similarly, in one take:

  http://www.bestofgooglevideo.com/video.php?video=604

  Brad Hoehne

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  Anonymous says:

  February 26, 2007 at 7:33 pm

  Here’s a functioning link for the above cited Mythbusters Rube-Goldberg device:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCYg_gz4fDo

  Brad Hoehne