Gallery: Outrageously Complicated Rube Goldberg Videos

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg got famous drawing fanciful, bizarrely complex, jury-rigged contraptions to accomplish simple tasks.

Not content with imagining these things, modern Rube Goldberg machine makers put such machines together in real life (or in virtual worlds) so you can actually see them go. There’s even a contest for the best.

In the following pages we’ll show you a few of the best.

By Dylan F. Tweney

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/rube-goldberg-video-gallery/