I happened upon this page using stumbleupon. Its actually a pretty neat experiment in crowdsourcing. You can see the embedded video on page 2 of this article.
In New York City, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.
via tweenbots | kacie kinzer.
Wow, it sounds like something out of Star Trek (see Hologram/Holodeck or maybe changeling might be more accurate), but Intel is claiming that “Programmable Matter” is 5 years away. Whats more, from the commets they are making, these aren’t Holograms, these are actual objects with shapeshifting abilities. See the next page for a video from CNN.