I’ve only ever used beams of light to illuminate objects, magnify images, stimulate molecules, uncage dyes and ions, ablate cells, stop bleeding, and push organelles around — but I’ve never built a Rube Goldberg machine with them.
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Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Hey, that’s my cell carrier. The Japanese characters say light.
Quite neat. The world needs more Rube Goldberg machines.
When I first started traveling to Japan I kept seeing ads/signage for “Au” and thought it might be a coffee shop chain (not sure why). Only on my last couple of trips did I realise it was a cell company. I’m rather glad I never entered and asked for a coffee.
Somewhat surprised they spelled it out in hiragana (phonetic) 「ひかり」rather than in kanji「光」(chinese character) … does hiragana make it ‘cuter’ or less intimidating?
It’s clearly a Japanese thing. Check out this Honda commercial from a while back.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQGn4wTIFs4
PythagoraSwitch
I’m sure poopyhead can train his Zebrafish to do something similar…
… and clean up the mess afterwards.
I love the PythagoraSwitch videos.
Have some more! Here’s 20 minutes of them. And another 20 minutes!
It’s interesting to observe some of the items that go into making the contraptions. I quite like the use of the “Encyclopedia of Bioethics” near the start of the 2nd video.
The same show was also responsible for the Algorithm March.