This uses a PIC to strobe lights that make drops of water go slow, stop, or even backwards.  There is a short video that was pretty impressive.

http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain

(I had to click twice to get to the site.  Maybe it is overloaded a bit.)

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