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Rube Goldberg machine is the world’s most complicated page-turning device

Rube Goldberg machine is the world's most complicated page-turning device
For those days when you can't be bothered to turn the newspaper page with your hands, but can be bothered to build a complicated contraption, artist Joseph Herscher has devised the ultimate page-turning Rube Goldberg machine, powered by pool balls, a chubby hamster, and fire. [via Laughing Squid]

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