The Agile Ambient Orb
Historical article · Originally published December 23, 2006; technical details may be outdated.
The Ambient Orb is one of the coolest gadgets around. You can program it to show any color depending on any status, so you can actually use it to show the status of your continuous Integration Build. Check out this article for a step by step tutorial to make it work for your team (using Nant).
How cool is it?
Check out this movie from YouTube:
Play videoAmbient Orbs MP3 Visualization