Saw an interesting talk by Matt Bidulph at Mediamatic the other night. He presented his latest work for Nature and an overview of how fabrication technologies are easy to experiment with in the virtual universe of Second Life. He was able to take the dataset of a cell tomagraph and get Second Life’s replicator bot to print a huge version of the cell image allowing people on Nature’s Second Life island to walk around it.

This tied in with a BBC feature on a IBM researcher who found a way to connect a doorbell in Second Life ringing, into sending the owner of that door an SMS message to tell them someone was calling.