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This guys builds a quad delta robot arm system that can “pick and place” items from an assembly line.  He does this all from Lego.  Awesome work.

Check Your “Tax Receipt” To See Where Your Money Is Going: “
Finally you can see a break down of where all your tax dollars are going.  Now if only I could edit this and put that money spent on defense to being spent on NASA.
What do you think about the disbursement of your tax dollars? [...]

Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance: “

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging [...]

Not really a large fan of the game, but a definitely a large fan of the technology and the interfaces that will come with these surfaces, or multi-touch table tops in general.
Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface

Their work looks like so much fun.

Hologram Google Earth is an amazing prototype computer display. Forget about multi-touch if this is a real display it will blow that away. Amazing video.

code_swarm has several cool open source repository visualizations. An interesting way to show the history and participants.

Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.

Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET – Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding [...]

Great blog about working at Atari back in the day. DadHacker worked on donkey kong and lived through the great Atari buy out. Great well written stories about what it was like then along with some priceless wisdom.