BMW Kinetic Sculpture

I generally like abstract sculptures, but kinetic abstract sculptures are even better. Its also nice to see a company that puts a lot of effort into engineering put some effort into art. Art and science/engineering are really not all that different, though the people that study them might be. Well, this video gets pretty neat after about a minute. Its a bunch of metal balls suspended on wires from the ceiling making 3D sculptures.

LED Cube

  

A cube made from LEDs and animated? Amazing. Hopefully in the future 3D TV's will be made out of something closer to this than what is currently available. There are instructions on instructables.com if you feel the desire to make one of these for yourself, I for one, am adding this to my list of things to build. It is supposed to take about four days for two people to build it, and another five days to program, but they provide software if you want it. This is an 8x8x8 LED cube, so there are 512 LEDs total, which are run by computer software that switches them on and off. Some of the patterns that this thing can make are absolutely stunning, like fireworks and waves and rainfall. Genius.