NHK clips of Rube Goldberg contraptions

[wung]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1746890786849164223

a lot of these are very nicely done!

[RoniMan]

heck yeah!!!

but what's the japanese say at the end of every series?

kora kora su ichi?

or better question is what's it mean?

[RoniMan]

nm, found out that it's

Pitagora Suicchi which means Pythagorean machine...

[ShawnLee]

Saw these last week. Weird and crazy.
And even considering it doesn't involve animated porn, other animated characters, giant robots that blink and give seizures, or other Japanese errata; still pretty cool.

[MrGreg]

That was awesome, particularly the ones with magnets...

[wung]

Pitagora Suicchi which means Pythagorean machine...

cool, thanks for looking that up, didn't occur to me ...


That was awesome, particularly the ones with magnets...

yeah, i like the magnetic ones, and also the one with the cups that played the jingle.

[speedracer120]

Awesome clips, just wish they wouldn't sing "pitagora suicchi" before and after each shot.

[Freelance Superhero]

wow, those were amazing...

the actual description of the video on the side of the page said they were from a kids' television show called Pythagoras Switch; that might be what they're chanting over and over again.

[Markel]

Here's a similar one, but much longer:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/ramen_cooking_rube_goldberglik.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

[speedracer120]

All that for ramen? I'd flip my lid waiting that long for ramen.

Still a good vid.