Over at the Wired “The Underwire” blog, there’s an entry about the above modified magic lantern called “Email Lantern (My Ghost Writer)” by Daniel Liss. In much the same practicality range as Mr Von Slatt’s RSS morse ticker, the Email Lantern projects emails sent to it one letter at a time with a scrolling alphabet. The video shows how it points out the letters, and you really have to concentrate to get the individual letters and words – not something to blindly glance at. It’s being shown (and operated) at New York University Interactive Telecommunication Program’s 2007 Spring Show (what a mouthful!) and apparently you can send an email to it live to get projected. I’d recommend sending something short, if I were you. chuckles Definitely fits into the impractical but lovely side of Steampunk contraptions.