The team behind The Incredible Machine aren't finished making complicated contraptions for simple tasks. Contraption Maker, the spiritual follow-up to developer Spotkin's first effort, has wheeled out ...

If you’re proud of yourself for building one of Lego’s many pre-packed kits, prepare to feel humbled. Builders in Japan have built an enormous Lego contraption that endlessly moves tiny balls in a ...

They seem like vestiges of the past: mechanical devices full of gimmicks, elaborate color comics in Sunday papers, fanciful movie sets for Charlie Chaplin — and the Three Stooges. So the first ...