Robotic Hand picks apples.

imigrants everywhere in fear of losing their jobs

http://www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml

Grid swarms

These are a very cool use of the Gumstix computers (which I think are themselves awsome)

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2142584362.html
http://gridswarms.essex.ac.uk/index.html

My favorite
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/owen/research.htm#The%20Flying%20Gridswarm,%20and%20the%20UltraSwarm

Mirrors reflecting mirrors!? What is this evil?

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

Watch the video and it all almost makes sense.