Gallery: Watch 1,000 Balls Blast Through a Vacuum-Powered Maze

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    Niklas Roy has created a machine that sucks 1,000 sponge balls through its transparent tubes.
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    The balls start in one bubble and travel to the other, using the sucking power of a household vacuum.
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    Visitors can touch the sensor to start the machine.
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    Touch sensor.
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    When the vacuum is sucking air out of bubble B, it causes that air pressure to drop, only to kick back up from incoming air from bubble A. This creates an airflow.
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    The balls zip through the tubes like an ultra-high speed bank deposit capsule.
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