Brendan Dawes made a Play-Doh interface to control the speed of video playback. He's got a webcam aimed at a lump of Play-Doh. A program looks at the amount of Play-Doh and adjusts the speed of the video accordingly. Link
Using Play-Doh to control video playback speed
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