Niklas Roy is an amazing artist. This has got to be my favourite installation of all time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VARUtWxDg_g

And no, I don't know why either.

Very cool projects! And using gifs to show the items in motion is a nice touch -- not every moving image has to be a flash video.

And I thought this was going to be a computer enclosure made out of cardboard.

me too, and I was very pleasantly surprised!

Is there a job where this would be a really good portfolio piece?

Probably just about any job you can think of obtaining, this will be relevant to. It demonstrates:

  1) Logic.
  2) Rapid prototyping.
  3) Resourcefulness.
  4) <Insert some other cool attribute of this project>

Don't think of getting a job as a function of absolute acts; it is not. It is a fuzzy function of how you sell your prior works, as well as how you position yourself in respect to those works.

This is hilarious because I was just about to go the the art supply store and buy materials to make blinds for my windows. I am constraining my materials to paper and string.

Wow this reminds of this video: http://vimeo.com/40000072

This generation has not lost their innovative spirit!

This reminds me greatly of Terry Pratchett's computer. It had ants as its computing media and had unreal time clock. With a cuckoo.