Ah. Here it is! It was on Make!

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/07/machine_...

Apparently the late innovator : > who designed the original referred to it as "The Most Beautiful Machine." Lovely.

Congratulations, Scott! I've been reading since about 2006 and I love your stuff. I found the Dark Room through your site and met many wonderful people and now I'm running an event similar to Bad Movie Night in Portland. None of it would have happened without you. Cheers!

Didn't you post a link to a version of this device earlier that was bigger, with a transparent case, or did I see that on BoingBoing?