Here’s a gadget that lets you flip a switch and win gumballs based on your trivia expertise. Ed Brinkhoff, Ethan Franck, Brent Mackenzie, and Taylor Steinbaugh -- engineering students in the Colorado State University Mechanical Engineering program -- have created a device that lets you scan your hand and answer some questions using a touchscreen. Gumballs come down three different crazy paths for each correct answer.
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One of the things that's charming about Gadget Freak is it shows off the continuing impulse engineering types have to get in the garage and tinker stuff into a new contraption. If you're tinkering on a clever gadget let us know. We're always looking for the next brilliant thing-a-ma-job. Send your gadget ideas to rob.spiegel@ubm.com.
Yes, it was Mouse Trap. Looking at the photo now brings back memories of that game from my childhood. It would have been a much better game if the prize at the end was gum, though!
For some reason I am always smiling when I look at these kinds of contraptions that include these Rube Goldberg type characteristics. I don't know where this fascination comes from but it seems it is more widespread than i first suspected. I remember another game, Mouse Trap I think, that had some of this same kind of appeal.
Andrew Morris designed a circuit that could detect a stroke victim's groan and convert the sound into a signal so caregivers would know when help was needed.
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