This digital newspaper box (yes, it’s glowing) is a personal project of Scott Walker, an associate editor at The Birmingham News. It delivers headlines, sights and sounds to his living room thanks to an Mac Mini and a few hours of work.

Maybe not the future, but it definitely says something about how we get our news nowadays. Maybe we could do that someday ourselves .

Click here to learn more about how it was created and to see it in action courtesy of the man himself.

As he says,

"Sure, I could get the news on my desktop computer or mobile phone, but as a newspaper editor, I’ve got a soft spot for tradition."