The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs that solves a simple problem through complicated means. But it might surprise you to learn that the ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Video and photographs of past contests are available. Journalists will not be allowed on the stage with the machines during the competition, but they are welcome on stage before ...

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, ...

SAVES YOU MONEY. TONIGHT WE TAKE YOU INSIDE THE MINDS OF FUTURE ENGINEERS. STUDENTS FROM MILWAUKEE AREA MIDDLE SCHOOLS CREATED A COMPLEX MACHINE TO ACCOMPLISH A SIMPLE TASK. ZOE HENRY GOT A ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...

A Rube Goldberg-style contraption uses a powerful, focused beam of light, prisms, and magnifying glasses to activate its various mechanisms. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's ...

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 ...

Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was born in an era defined by massive technological upheaval. But where others recoiled at the march of progress, Goldberg saw “the funny,” writes Thimmesh in lucidly ...