Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the Batesville Community School Corporation was held on Saturday, Feb. 24, ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...

Purdue Society of Professional Engineers student Rube Goldberg team regained the national championship in 2014 with a zipper zipping machine. The Purdue machine was the first in over three decades of ...

Choreographer Jody Oberfeld’s latest theatrical movement-based work, “Rube G.-The Consequence of Action,” draws upon the Jewish cartoonist’s signature contraptions. (New York Jewish Week) — Are we ...

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015 9:16 AM Updated Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 4:19 AM Families of freshmen at Animas High School have found it difficult to make breakfast during the last month or so. The students ...

Purdue Society of Professional Engineers student Rube Goldberg team regained the national championship in 2014 with a zipper zipping machine. The Purdue machine was the first in over three decades of ...

Although somebody can set up a Rube Goldberg machine for any reason whatsoever, the best use-cases—we’d argue, at least—involve food. Even if that food is for squirrels, as it is in the RGM in the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Most ...

We all know what it means to procrastinate, but what about actively spending time building a useless machine? You have undoubtedly seen the ornamental boxes with a tempting little toggle switch on the ...

If you've seen the recent viral video where three little girls turn their stereotypically girly toys into an awesome Rube Goldberg machine – while a revamped version of the Beastie Boys song "Girls" ...

We all know the trouble with working on a computer while trying to eat. Do you take a bite and then type? Do you oscillate between two minutes working and two minutes eating? And how exactly are you ...

(CNN) — Rube Goldberg machines – those contraptions that, like the board game Mouse Trap, aim to accomplish a simple task in a needlessly complex way – don’t really fit in an age obsessed with ...