Claytronics - Physical Dynamic Rendering

http://singularityhub.com/2009/07/23/claytronics-or-gershenfeld-why-youll-be-able-to-make-almost-anything/

Talks Torsten ReilTorsten Reil: Animating neurobiologist builds better animations

By coding computer simulations with biologically modeled nervous systems, Torsten Reil and his company NaturalMotion breathe life into the animated characters inhabiting the most eye-poppingly realistic games and movies around.

http://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html

World Pinhole Camera Day Camera

Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy!
http://www.corbis.readymech.com/en

PERSONAS - How does the Internet see you?

http://personas.media.mit.edu/

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.