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Overly complex corkscrew weighs 771 pounds of steampunk awesomeness

March 7, 2012

Wine snobs, you are behind the times if you’re still using a wing corkscrew. Rob Higgs’s hand-cranked machine uses gears, pulleys, chains and weights to open a bottle of wine, then carefully pour its contents into a glass…

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