Papercraft heart of rotating gears

Paper engineer Haruki Nakamura created this amazing heart of gears. The video really gets cranking around :50. Gear's heart (via Drawn!)

[#1 posted by minTphresh , November 5, 2008 10:36 AM]

filled with win!

[#2 posted by MrsBug , November 5, 2008 10:36 AM]

"Gets cranking".... I get ya...very clever.

And dang, this thing IS very clever. cool.

[#3 posted by entropy , November 5, 2008 10:50 AM]

really amazing. awesome.

[#4 posted by ZippySpincycle , November 5, 2008 10:52 AM]

Blondie's "Heart of Gears" was such an awesome song...

[#5 posted by Takuan , November 5, 2008 10:57 AM]

sugoi!

[#6 posted by The_Epicarrion , November 5, 2008 11:02 AM]

So crafty. So papery.

[#7 posted by Sekino , November 5, 2008 11:06 AM]

Ooooooh!!! It's...

OOooohhh!! (That's really all I can say! :D )

[#8 posted by plasmator , November 5, 2008 11:07 AM]

Wow. I want a build log. That's fantastic.

[#9 posted by Daemon , November 5, 2008 11:13 AM]

Paperclockpunk?

[#10 posted by Lea Hernandez , November 5, 2008 11:17 AM]

Woooooooow.
I want to build one!

[#11 posted by SuperDoop , November 5, 2008 11:29 AM]

Cool papercraft, but what's with that zombie arm that controls it? Either that person is of the undead, or they've got a serious Colloidal Silver problem.

[#12 posted by Ian70 , November 5, 2008 11:40 AM]

i heard a phrase that sounds something like "nori mash da", and I recognized it from hearing it on the "Unbeatable Banzuke" TV show - what does that phrase mean?

[#13 posted by Jon-o , November 5, 2008 12:24 PM]

#12 you probably heard 'narimashita' - past tense of 'naru', 'to become'. It's a very common verb.

(disclaimer, I only know a bit of japanese...)

[#14 posted by IamInnocent , November 5, 2008 12:43 PM]

An auto-healing, pre-broken, artificial heart for the incurable romantic.

[#15 posted by SteamKev , November 5, 2008 1:47 PM]

I would go crazy trying to figure that out. Therefore, I will not.

[#16 posted by Blaine , November 5, 2008 2:17 PM]

Run! A Cenobyte is gonna pop out of that thing!!!

[#17 posted by fenderbasher , November 5, 2008 7:59 PM]

Awesome. Plain awesome.

[#18 posted by Anonymous , November 5, 2008 8:22 PM]

that is perfect and beautiful

[#19 posted by aerohydro , November 5, 2008 8:39 PM]

Another of Haruki Nakamura's papercraft designs is that of a white cube. Here is a Youtube video showing the cube breaking up and then reforming as the gears turn around.

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=qfspDCpVDTw

[#20 posted by BastardNamban , November 5, 2008 10:42 PM]

If you're wondering what he says in detail, I posted an English translaton in teh comments.

It also seems that he has a book coming out here in Japan in December, I don't know if it will have how to make these in it, as he calls these his "sakuhin"- masterworks.