Beautiful! We have a horse rescue here in our little ole town and I go there often. Tom the biggest horse just died and they had a funeral and buried him in the woods - what a feat! http://www.equiculture.org
I used to make art out of little holes in paper with a light shining through from the back. I never lived it down when I was written up in an art mag as the "pin prick artist".
I think the Tricorder trumps the iPhone. Sure, there's an app for that, but can the iPhone scan my prostate in BIO mode and in the next instant tell me if there's a rock monster nearby?
My brother and I would twist and bend Hot Wheels tracks everywhere around the house - through the hamster cage, into the piano, over our baby sister... Sizzlers with the pull cords! I'm old.
The subtleties of random, natural, in-between movements are needed, perhaps just not demonstrated in this spastic video. Without the naturalism it will just seem like a robot eye, dead, unhuman, boring. But early technology is kinda cool in itself for what's lacking.