Cool devices my friends have pointed out to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monome


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby

Cool concepts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-physical_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_computing

These are all mostly unrelated to monome