This new Facebook Like counter from http://www.smiirl.com , has long been in the making. Several DIY versions of this have surfaced, and we even proposed a version of this while I was working at R/GA.
As technology moves things into the digital realm, there is a natural counter culture that wants to express these digital forces as physical analog experiences. What other instances can you think of where experiences born in digital become novel by moving to analog?
-pd
Good vs Better 