From Michael Harboun comes this video of a kitchen—I guess it's OK to use that term—which utilizes the technology of claytronics. A nutshell definition of this, as gleaned from the collaborative research project of Carnegie Mellon University and Intel, is the transformation of 2-D planes into operational, 3-D mechanical structures; the scientists refer to the substance as 'programmable matter'. With the recent findings on the Higgs boson furthering our understanding of the molecular-material frontier, who's to say that M. Harboun's vision [which just won a Red Dot award] won't someday be realized?
