Joseph Herscher, inventor of comical chain-reaction machines, has clearly had some time on his hands.
Joseph made his first machine when he was five years old, the Lolly Machine. This childhood passion was rediscovered in his early twenties when he built a contraption that spanned his entire apartment in a three minute obstacle course culminating in a hammer smashing an egg.
"Creme that Egg" racked up three million views online, encouraging him to build more and more elaborate machines. Soon came the workshops with kids, participation in the Venice Biennial and a feature in the New York Times.
Many of Herscher’s devices are referred to as Rube Goldberg Machines. The name comes from the famous American cartoonist who drew complex gadgets that performed simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways.
His Rube Goldberg machine to streamline dinnertime lets him keep eating with no break before cake. It's his most complex yet and took three months to make so please sit back and enjoy it! The creativity is brilliant!
This should put a smile o your face today. Happy Weekend everyone. Greeting from Expat with Kids in confinement...
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