Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Does spending 14 months building an outrageous musical contraption that's powered by marbles mean that you've lost yours? If the end result is as impressive as the Wintergartan Marble Machine, we'd ...

Marble machines are the coloring books of the appliance world. A weirdly soothing attention vortex, this contrivance asks nothing and offers nothing except the joy of watching gravity pull a sphere ...

Remember Martin Molin's Marble Machine X, the mechanical, musical Rube Goldberg machine that uses some 3,000 components and a hand-turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and electric ...

Artist Martin Molin has spent the last 14 months designing and hand-building the Musical Marble Machine, a huge loom- or printing press-like contraption made from birch ply that makes use of 2,000 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In the video above, every single sound you hear is being made by Swedish musician Martin Molin’s ...

Netherlands-based YouTuber and prototype builder, Daniel de Bruin, built a miniature marble machine and it is an infinite loop of delight. Netherlands-based YouTuber and “designer of prototypical ...

You've heard of people losing their marbles. Martin Molin is using his -- 2,000 to be exact. The Sweden-based musician has spent the last 14 months working on a musical instrument that uses marbles to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This customer, Marble Machine No. 12, is an exemplar of the form. It turns AAA battery power into an perpetually looping interplay ...