When the staff at the Queens Museum learned that a traveling exhibition dedicated to Rube Goldberg was touring the country, they knew their museum needed to be a stop. They also knew the museum had to ...

What takes over 20 different steps in order to shine a shoe? Nothing, in a world other than the one created by the Rube Goldberg club. For the fourth year, several UA engineering students are working ...

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, ...

I’ve seen many a Rube Goldberg machine in my day, and I have to say that this version created by 2D Photography has to be one of the most impressive. It’s definitely worth watching all the way through ...

DECATUR — The point of a Rube Goldberg is to create the most complicated machine you can, to do the simplest task you can imagine.

CHICAGO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NERDS ®, the popular candy brand that celebrates being better together, has announced the winners of the 2021 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Open to the public, ...

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 ...