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jDome, designed by John Nilsson brings gaming to a whole new level. jDome lets gamers see more of the virtual environment making gaming more realistic. Here we have photos of Crysis a first person shooter and as you can see the field of view is much wider on the jDome than on a regular monitor. John is currently looking for sponsors to launch production of the dome. Visit his site for more info the link is below.

This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008.

For those who prefer to play it counter-espionage safe when it comes to their data, EDR Solution's Hard Disk Crusher will do what it says on the tin: crush hard discs into MacBook-Air-thin wafers of collapsed, unreadable data. The site claims it can crush up to 6 hard disks a minute, and is even as green-friendly as a device of incredible destructive power can be: although it runs off a standard 110v outlet, you can also use a hand-pump, which will crush your drive in 15 pumps. The price for all this paranoia? A staggering 12 grand. And chances are, if you're willing to pay that to protect your privacy, you're not going to be happy until you atomize your old data for ultimate unrecoverability.