Anyone remembers cassette tapes? And what you could do with them besides pushing the fast forward button on the player for some funny sound effects? While feeling somewhat nostalgic, I dug out a couple of entertaining videos that could actually legitimately use 'mechanical engineering' as an award category for commercials.
Technics kicking it off:
Honda took a step up and spent more than 600 takes involving over 85 car parts before this amazing Rube Goldberg style sequence worked out perfectly. Believe it or not, the video consists of only two 60 seconds long clips stitched together. You can actually read the full description here (and learn pretty much all the important car assembly terminology as well if English is not your native language).
Then again, exactly how many beers would you have to drink until having the imagination executed in the most expensive Guinness commercial ever? Filmed in Argentina with a budget over $16 million, involving 6 000 dominoes, 10 000 books, 400 tyres, 75 mirrors, 50 fridges, 45 wardrobes and 1000 villagers, calling it spectacular is probably an understatement.
A bit more approachable weekend hobby project: next time anyone asks to help fixing the doorbell, consider the following as an alternative.
And to give the great weekend some kick, one very appropriate track to sing (or build) along ;) The only warning is that watching it could tempt you to get yourself a boeing-size hangar instead of a garden shed.
