en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/748416 Comments by WillRadik http://laughingsquid.com/the-most-useless-machine-ever/#IDComment50369675 Ah. Here it is! It was on Make! <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/07/machine_turns_itself_off.html" target="_blank">http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/07/machine_...</a> Apparently the late innovator : &gt; who designed the original referred to it as &quot;The Most Beautiful Machine.&quot; Lovely. Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:13:47 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/the-most-useless-machine-ever/#IDComment50369675 http://laughingsquid.com/5th-anniversary-of-laughing-squid-blog/#IDComment50365367 Congratulations, Scott! I&#039;ve been reading since about 2006 and I love your stuff. I found the Dark Room through your site and met many wonderful people and now I&#039;m running an event similar to Bad Movie Night in Portland. None of it would have happened without you. Cheers! Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:42:46 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/5th-anniversary-of-laughing-squid-blog/#IDComment50365367 http://laughingsquid.com/the-most-useless-machine-ever/#IDComment50365137 Didn&#039;t you post a link to a version of this device earlier that was bigger, with a transparent case, or did I see that on BoingBoing? Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:40:01 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/the-most-useless-machine-ever/#IDComment50365137