Incredible Machines

Apr 21 2006

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Incredible Machines. And I thought I was a geek. These things are just cool. Also, beware the theme song. It will end you.

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14 responses so far

  1. Zack
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 9:17 am

    I spent the better part of my day at work yesterday watching this video, and tring to plan my own. Since then, I’ve been consumed by this sh*t.

    And yes, the theme song will ruin you. I have $5 bucks for anyone who remixes with the theme song and posts it on this site. That’s five whole dollars! Almost enough for a gallon of gasoline.

  2. aly hawkins
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 9:46 am

    I couldn’t stop watching! When it first started to load, I was like, “Twelve minutes! Good Lord, doesn’t Michael know some of us have lives??” And then the song started and it was over.

  3. Zack
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 9:57 am

    Just remember Aly – you’ll never get that 12 minutes back. it’s gone forever.

  4. Morphea
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 10:06 am

    I, too, couldn’t take my eyes off, even whilst answering the company’s phone, for all 13 minutes.

  5. Stick
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 10:24 am

    I don’t get it… what’s “the taco not so itchy” mean?

    Sheesh, now I’m gonna be singing that in my head all weekend.

  6. Zack
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 10:39 am

    Don’t ask me to translate Japanese again. The last time I did that, it went horribly wrong.

  7. Sharolyn
    on 21 Apr 2006 at 8:43 pm

    I quote Gretchen:

    “You don’t have to get through a third of (it), just to discover you’re not really that interested, but need to finish what you’ve begun (or is that just my dilemma?).”

    ‘Very captivating!

  8. Jason Schwanz dot com » Blog Archive » Truly Incredible
    on 22 Apr 2006 at 1:00 pm

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  9. june
    on 23 Apr 2006 at 8:13 am

    “Isn’t that SO cool?!….Isn’t that SO cool?!…Isn’t that SO cool?!…That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!”

    Zane, age 5

    “Oh! Oh! Oh! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh…”

    Nate, age 2

  10. Cliff
    on 23 Apr 2006 at 9:21 pm

    I loved these things — we have several perpetual motion machines in Boston Logan airport and at the Museum of Science and I cannot take my eyes of of them.

    There’s also an amazing Honda commercial that only ran a few times overseas — 2 minutes of the most amazing sequence imaginable. They even roll a car to start it up! Here‘s a link to a high quality AVI file. Also, just search on ‘Cog Honda Accord Video’ to find others.

  11. michael lee
    on 23 Apr 2006 at 9:36 pm

    Cliff – the link is broken, but I think I found the ad you’re talking about.

    link

    It looks a little CGI to me, but cool concept. One of the thinks I love about the Japanese videos is the economy of motion – each step seems to have just enough motion to carry it through to the next step.

  12. Matty
    on 24 Apr 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Mike –

    Just a note. there are only three real bits of CGI in the “Cog” piece.

    1. The water was digitally enhacnced so you can see it better.
    2. The lights on the car are not really lit.
    3. They couldn’t actually fit the whole thing in one long hallway, so they had to create it in two parts. Thanks to the wonders of motion-controlled cameras they were able to merge the two halves in to one “seamless”, kick ass commercial.

    Matty

  13. Chad
    on 25 Apr 2006 at 9:42 am

    Make… the… song…. stop……….

  14. michael lee
    on 28 Aug 2006 at 10:37 pm

    awwwww, man – they took the video down! Anyone wanna find a new link for me?

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