Artsy Rube Goldberg machine makes eggs, toast, coffee

By at 9:00 am Tuesday, Oct 6

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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.
Yuri Suzuki and Platform 21 Image: Johannes Abeling

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Lisa Katayama

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