Joseph Hersher is a Rube Goldberg specialist from Brooklyn. His newest invention gives no heed to broken glass, laptop integrity or the comfort of Hamsters. One of the best complex devices I’ve seen.
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cool!
That hamster looks a lot like my late hammy Harvey (yes, as in Harvey the Wonder Hamster…)
And the practical side of me wonders what happens when he needs to turn the next page. But yes, that was hysterical..
Like most Rube Goldberg machines, it’s a massively over-engineered device to perform an incredibly simple action. Like most RG machines, it’s going to be highly failure-prone (this will almost certainly not have all happened in one take – compare for instance the Mythbusters’ RG machine and the comments they made while building and filming it).
And like most RG machines, it’s incredibly cool and awesome to watch!
Joseph reminds me a little bit of Earl Hickey. Good stuff! After that demo you can cross somebody off your list.
It’s Herscher not Hersher!
Herscher does bear a striking resemblance to Rube, as portrayed in the comic strip, and he’s commended for being absurdly unaware of the contraption. And more points are scored for making use of animals, flaming objects and string.
“Modern day” wouldn’t include a newspaper.
Not everybody can Internet, you know.
He’s got some kind of Mac that happily gets dumped on the floor! Woo! So maybe he has internet and doesn’t care. That newspaper must be good.
Agree, many points for genuinely alarming elements.
That was fun, do it again.
Very Heath Robinson.
I was just about to say that over here in the UK we call that sort of thing Heath Robinson instead of Rube Goldberg.
Or maybe even Wallace and Gromit!