A few years ago the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn hosted a traveling PIXAR exhibit that included a desk light, much like the one in the opening of this vid, that you could use to create your own stop motion animation of the lamp jumping or turning a somersault.
Speaking of Take Five, it was used in a fascinating British TV series of the 80s, which ran in the US on PBS. As usual, my boss at RS figured I was completely blowing smoke when I described some of the demonstrations done on the show, then, nearly lost his mind when one of the regular customers was also a fan of the show, and confirmed everything I had been describing to Ron was true.
