This is a piece I've been working on in collaboration with a prof. at pace university in nyc. It uses the flash Fisix Engine to create an application where news stories are brought in from the web and analyzed to find their mood. once a mood is chosen, it is assigned a color in accordance to a chosen cultural color model--then the cool part, the lights in the show room in san jose change to the color of the mood

give it a try here
and also check out this video feature of it on MSNBC