LEGO Engineer Pieces Together a Truly Useless, but Sinister, Machine

It should absolutely go without saying that geeks love LEGO. The LEGO affair has spawned an infinite array of designs and contraptions, which typically forces block-heads to exponentially increase the size, complexity and scope of their creations. YouTuber and LEGO engineer Invisibules has shed those expansive trappings, though, and crafted a compact, interlocking machine that is simplistically (and disturbingly) impressive.

His "sinister" source of inspiration, as sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke originally and appropriately dubbed it, was Minsky and Shannon's incredibly creepy "Ultimate Machine" from the '50s. Despite its somewhat misleading title, the machine possesses a singular and frustrating function: the ability to turn itself off as soon as it's turned on. The creator's YouTube video demonstrates the contraption in action, and he even unlocks its sides to reveal a glimpse of the box's guts -- just in case anyone wants to duplicate his disturbing design. If for some reason you do, just make sure to kee...
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