http://www.starbridgesystems.com/news/43/national-cancer-institute-nci-purchases-starbridge-hypercomputer-to-accelerate-genome-data-research

Take a look at World Wide Telescope from Microsoft research. its still in infancy, but there are already some pretty cool guided tours, even just browsing the galaxy is fun-- you can zoom in and pan tilt / turn the planets... It looks great on 1080p large screen TV. I always imagine sharing this kind of thing with students and have them explore it... but I'm not a teacher, but my kids and I play with it. It also orients the horizons according to your location http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Take a look at http://www.boxee.tv/ multi-platform, netflix, just to name a few of the functions and apps. New beta coming december 7th... I've used it for a few months and like what it can do, excited for the beta.