Rube-ics Cube

Heading to the doctors office at the UofI we passed by the radiation treatment center in the same building, and discovered another little treasure. A fantastic Rube Goldberg machine. Download rube.asf (4 MB). Unfortunately the only thing I had handy that would allow me to take a video of it was my PDA, and it not only produces awful video quality, but it uses some Windows Media video format that isn't natively supported on the Mac, and isn't even supported by the Windows Media Player for Mac that Microsoft makes.

I imagine that Windows users should be able to play the video as is. Mac users can view the video using some alternative programs. I recommend downloading the free VLC media player. Then drag the "rube.asf" file you downloaded onto the VLC application to view it. Though the video quality is deplorable, it does at least give you the idea.

FOLLOWUP: Techically this isn't actually a "Rube Goldberg machine", because it doesn't actually achieve a task. This machine does nothing more than entertain. A Rube Goldberg machine is suppose to do something simple, such as starting a toaster, in a wildly roundabout fashion.