A Japanese IT company, along with researchers from Keio University, have developed a high-tech brainstroming room that actually listens to its inhabitants and then locates and feeds them data and images to raise creativity.

From Pink Tentacle:

The system — called “Kage Roi” — relies on a speech-recognition capable computer that monitors the brainstorming session via microphone, identifies keywords, and automatically crawls the web in search of related information and images. A ceiling-mounted projector then casts the retrieved data and imagery onto dark, human-shaped shadows on the table during the course of the meeting. The brainstormers can free-associate on the projected data, use it as a tool for discussion, or rely on it for helpful cues if ideas are running short.

The room comes equipped with an ambient, multi-colored LED lighting system that can aid creativity by altering the mood of the room — for example a simulation of the rising and setting of the sun, which helps create a gradual mood shift as the meeting progresses.