Today's leaps in technology are highly visible. Thanks to the Internet, you can learn about a breakthrough, process it and forget about it all within the same day. Machine miracles didn't always pass through us this quickly — before the Internet, they needed a venue. These venues were called world fairs. They were a place where you could go to see what the spirit of innovation was up to, and to have your mind thoroughly blown. It's this draw that is leading Ryan Ritchey, a video industry professional looking for funding on Kickstarter, to travel back to these bright, optimistic technological carnivals.

The Internet is abuzz about the record-breaking crowd-funding efforts of game studio Double Fine. Industry veteran Tim Schafer, who has worked on such classics as The Adventures of Monkey Island, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango (among many others), has taken his latest project to the people in order to develop their new game in the public eye.

What if you had a magic brick that you could stick anywhere that gave you the power to automatically change the temperature in any room, or send event triggered messages to you from thousands of miles away? Well dream no more, the magic is here right now.

What started out as a hilarious joke on The Office, might just become a reality. Eric Calisto is reaching out to the Internet to help him fund the creation of the world's first tablet shaped like a triangle. This is not an April Fool's joke.