March 06, 2007
Machines Have Secrets Too
Having now watched the entire series of The Secret Life of Machines on our household MythTV, I can now recommend it highly to my friends and relatives. If you aren't my friend or relative, well you might still enjoy it but I don't care if you decide to watch it or not. The two guys running/hosting the show are both very smart and some what insane. They do many things that I suspect should forcibly terminate their insurance coverage. Despite (or perhaps because of?) this, I found the show informative and highly engaging.
To be honest, it aged pretty gracefully despite being very noticeably dated now. Also the historical segments are quite interesting and their use of humorous animated segments works very well. In some ways it reminds me of the Connections series (the first one) but with a more whimsical feel and a lot more practical demonstrations of the properties/concepts involved in what they're explaining.
Did I mention the guys running the show are totally insane?
"Oh, we have two lathes in the shop... let's turn them into a fax machine!"
or
"Hey look, I can magnetize cellophane tape and iron dust with my band saw just like an audio cassette!"
or
"Let's demonstrate how pressure control valves work in modern lifts by lifting Rex ten feet off the ground!"
(Via Alan's Livejournal)
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