Artsy Rube Goldberg machine makes eggs, toast, coffee

At Amsterdam's Platform21 design museum last month, kooky Japanese product designers Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura — both former assistants at the wonderful art collective Maywa Denki — showed a three-week-long installation that followed the process of him making a giant, functional Rube Goldberg machine that would automatically churn out a full breakfast — coffee, toast, and an omelet. The Breakfast Machine is quite big and impractical, but nonetheless wonderful.

There's a video of the machine at work after the jump.

[halkun #1 09:14 on Tue, Oct. 6]

Would it be that hard to put the video *before* the jump. Or a are click-thoughs more important than content now?

[Anonymous #2 09:18 on Tue, Oct. 6]

2nd that. Value your readers, and don't do that "the interesting bit is after the jump" BS.

[TJ S replied to comment from halkun #3 10:24 on Tue, Oct. 6]

Putting it after the jump keeps more articles on the front page (or keeps the front page smaller).

Personally, I like the format of having a picture out front, and video after the jump. It lets my browser use less RAM, and keeps the front page more browse-able.

Added benefit: About 99% of flash videos are blocked for me at work, so when I read during free time, I don't have to look at a bunch of articles with a big blank spot where a video should be.

[Brainspore #4 11:17 on Tue, Oct. 6]

I'm reminded of Dick Van Dyke's breakfast machine from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." And every morning at Wallace & Gromit's house.

[wildeandcrazy #5 11:29 on Tue, Oct. 6]

Who should we thank for this information that was found to be posted? It seems to have been left out for this post.

[Suburbancowboy #6 11:29 on Tue, Oct. 6]

Pee-We did it better.

[Anonymous #7 11:56 on Tue, Oct. 6]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/43212/family-guy-breakfast-machine

[Anonymous #8 15:08 on Tue, Oct. 6]

Trying to find the jump...

[Res Cogitans #9 16:35 on Tue, Oct. 6]

It actually reminds me of the scene in Brazil where Sam's apartment automation goes crazy and pours tea all over his toast.

[Javier Candeira #10 23:17 on Tue, Oct. 6]

There are also the various breakfast machines of Back to the Future's Doc Brown.

[Anonymous #11 07:45 on Wed, Oct. 7]

Not only was the video great, but the commentary was funny for me to listen to as well. Sounds like he was the one responsible for keeping the coffee pot from overflowing--by drinking from it. I don't think I've heard German spoken so quickly.

[Anonymous #12 01:26 on Mon, Nov. 2]

It's true. I speak way to fast. Too much coffee. Very cool to see it on BoingBoing though.
(oh and its Dutch, not German)