Accelerometers married with touch sensitive surfaces, RFID and lots of pretty lights and servos... Andrew Fentem designs and makes some amazing, er, thingies.
Is it art? Technology? Toys? Communications and control systems? Or even social experiment? There so much potential in what this guy does/has done, it's fabulous! (and is that really his current mobile phone number at the bottom of the page?) Annoyingly, Kinetica's web site isn't awfully helpful on opening times and permanent exhibitions so I'm not sure what, if any, of Mr. Fentem's pieces are there at the moment.
Actually, there's a whole bunch of really cool stuff at Kinetica. For Paul Fryer's "Star in a Jar" ("The Star In A Jar is basically a simple fusion reactor in a bell jar. What you see when the machine is fired up is a small sun inside a glass dome in a vacuum almost as empty as outer space.") alone, it has to be well worth a visit.
