Y’all might be interested in this:
http://www.hackthesenses.com/hackathon/
The Idea: bring together makers from a variety of backgrounds and
provide them with a weekend’s worth of time and space to develop new
devices and applications that hack, expand and augment the senses.
The Tools: we’ll be using include some seriously cool technologies, like
Brain-Computer Interfaces, virtual, and augmented reality headsets,
sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, and even cardboard boxes! BYOD
too!
The Vision is that by exploring perceptual hacking we can expand the
scope of human experience. We’ll definitely learn a great deal, and who
knows, we might just build something amazing along the way.