Real-life Super Mario Rube Goldberg Machine

The 22nd Annual Rube Goldberg machine contest saw many fun attempts at comical inefficiency this year, including this Super Mario machine entry from engineers at Penn State. [via PopMech]

1. [Anonymous]

   this looks amazing i wanna do it!!!

2. [monstrinho_do_biscoito]

   oh, you mean a Heath Robinson machine?

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson

   /englishlols

3. [elguapostrikes]

   What, no videos of these things in action? Thats as silly as a Rube Goldberg machine.

4. [zkhr]

   A couple guys I know had a rube machine they built for the same task this year (changing a light bulb), but based on the game clue. You can check out a video they made of the machine in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqWhwL_CTE