What's that device on the Google home page?

[sandyRoe]

Is it some sort of code breaking device?

[bednobs]

on all of googles things, just hover your cursor over and it'll tell you

[ChuckFickens]

I'm disappointed in you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

(p.s. click on most of the special google logos and it will tell you what it's about, this one has a link just above it)

[askyourgran]

It's spelling out 100 for Alan Turigs' 100th birthday today. Poor chap in those days it was very unenlightening days for them.

[Zacs-Master]

New evidence suggests his death wasn't suicide. About time one of our greatest heroes was recognised properly.

[ChuckFickens]

You have to change the gate options until you can make the sequence of 1's and 0's match the example above the gates, each time you get it correct it lights up one letter of the word google, once you've lit up the whole word it runs through it again on its own and then takes you to a google result page for Alan Turing.

[erin-x]

I eventually managed to crack it. Took me ages though!

[ChuckFickens]

The E was the worst one, that took me a few minutes, the others were pretty straight forward.

[Tizzi24]

There was a programme on TV about him some time ago - what an unhappy life he had.