Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

Designed by Jonas Pfeil, this ball has 36 cell phone camera sensors that allow it to take pictures a full 360 degrees (or 4*pi steradians for the nerds out there) around the entirety of the sphere. Meaning from ground to sky and everything in between. Pretty impressive. Just throw it in the air and it has a built in accelerometer that it uses to sense the when it's at it's highest point and then snaps the picture. It makes for some pretty neat shots that software can mesh together so you can fly through the area you took a picture of. And it foam padded so you don't have to worry about dropping it.

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.