That is to say, it was cause your blown mind to leak through your tear ducts.

Sure, the iPad is nice and all, but it doesn't allow the freedom to create an eight-foot tall digital illustration. Sponsored by the Olympics, artist Chairman Ting paints a digital mural on Tangible Interaction's interactive computer wall in Vancouver.

The winners of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced, and you can check them all out at NewScientist.com, like the one on the left which won the Photography competition and depicts "a community of microscopic diatoms - unicellular algae with a peculiar glass-like cell wall—attached to a marine invertebrate. Some more stunning selections after the jump.