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Have your pixelated portrait drawn by Google Sketchbots in London Museum

The geekheads at Google have taken web interactions to a new level. Yes Google has setup a 5 different social experiments in London Science Museum, which web users from around the world can control creatively and can see the live physical outcome. Try yourself at http://www.chromeweblab.com . This portal is based on WebGL and so you need Google Chrome to open it. When you enter the experiment you will be assigned a lab tag, something thats unique to you and is anonymous. You may sign in with your Google account and can associate the lab tag with your account. Lets have a look at each experiment. Universal Orchestra: Here you have two options to produce music along with other live users from around the world. Either you can make it by controlling actual musical instruments setup at London Museum by clicking on Play in Museum or you can do it so through virtual instruments by clicking on Play Online . But the latter lacks the flavour of real interaction. So once you enter in