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This on-line game tests your Engineering intuition by challenging you to move an object from one place to another using limited tools. Try to complete each level in the first attempt if you think it's too easy...! Read More »

Win a free DVD of the Contraption II video!

All you have to do is give an explanation of how you think the self-playing chess board works? The most sensible and accurate answer will win.

Just add your comment, and we'll check through them and email the winner to let them know.

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The third and final Baynham & Tyers - Tea Contraption. This elegant machine boils the kettle, catapults the tea bag into the cup, pours in the boiling water and adds the milk, before presenting the tea to the lucky student!

It took two/three days to build and 1 day of filming with over 50 attempts. The video is a continuous shot and the contraption did work (eventually).

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The Contraption II was one of the longest contraption videos created by Baynham & Tyers.

This video has been viewed by over 20 million people and counting...

The highlight of this video has to be the self playing chess board, which does not use magnets!

Featured items include:

• Golf ball putter


• Air puck table


• Hair drier


• Slinky


• Newton's Cra Read More »
  

TechNutters in association with Baynham & Tyers is now hosting the first (of three) of the Legendary Contraption videos, inspired by Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson...

This video was initially made in one of the college dorm rooms at St Johns College, Cambridge (UK) and hosted on the university server. On a raining Saturday afternoon in the middle of March 2005, the video was posted on Slashdot < Read More »

Serving lunch hasnt been this complicated. Try to do it using this Rube Goldberg device!

You must fix the contraption in a way that the series of actions it will do would cause lunch to be served. All the parts of this machine has a different job to do to make it work right. Try to tweak the parts accordingly.

Just have a keen eye and some imagination. Try playing with the parts so you hav Read More »

Astronauts have installed the final truss, or backbone segment, to the International Space Station.The Starboard 6 truss holds the fourth pair of solar arrays needed to fully power the orbiting outpost. Friday will see the command given to unfurl the arrays, a procedure that has in the past run into difficulties with panels snagging as they roll out.The Discovery shuttle brought the new power uni Read More »

By Rebecca MorelleScience reporter, BBC NewsA pink baby elephant has been caught on camera in Botswana.A wildlife cameraman took pictures of the calf when he spotted it amongst a herd of about 80 elephants in the Okavango Delta.Experts believe it is probably an albino, which is an extremely rare phenomenon in African elephants.They are unsure of its chances of long-term survival - the blazing Afr Read More »