Tag: RUBEGOLDBERG

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Elmo of Sesame Street fame joined FCC Chariman Julius Genachowski last week for a surreal discussion of the upcoming U.S. broadband plan. Fortunately, there's video. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Beaker from the Muppets learns about the difficulty of making it big on YouTube with a viral 'Dust in the Wind' cover. [From: Neatorama] This multi-screened Rube ...

Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer prize-winning artist and inventor, has inspired generations of creative madcap engineers (both amateur and professional) to construct absurdly complex "Rube Goldberg contraptions" in order to perform simple, menial tasks. Such contraptions are frequently employed in film and television, perhaps most notably in the film 'Back to the Future' and the popular claymation ...