Found this link on Slashdot this morning. Anyone seen the Minority Report? Remember to cool thing they used to manipulate the images to type to find clues? Looks like this could be leaning towards that. It's a tangible interface that detects the movement of blocks on the surface to determine what should be done. Looks like it's still in early phases, but this could turn out being something really cool. Worth a watch....
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/