Swedish band Wintergatan may be widely known for its Marble Machine music video (which featured a machine dropping marbles to play drums, a bass, and other instruments), but today I learned that ...

While this is authentic footage of a genuine product, the "perpetual" marble machine does not operate infinitely without an additional energy source. Rather, it uses batteries and a magnet to create ...

Pincho balls are circulated like a Pythagora switch by combining wooden handwheel handles, gears, rails, etc. with drums, vibratophones and bases, turning the handwheel handle, and when the pachinko ...

For American television viewers of the 1970s, The Magnificent Marble Machine was a gimmicky, short-lived game show centered around a giant pinball machine. The strange NBC daytime series probably owed ...