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I thought it was this Hektor.

That has been done already. Hektor the Grafitti Output Device was covered by slashdot some time ago.

It thought Mac OS X was supposed to be the most intuitive interface.

How come when single-clicking on one image file, 7 pop up?

Complete with pictures, a movie, etc
http://www.hektor.ch/

The article is kind of light on details of sales and such though. Looks more like a hack job.

I doubt that commercial uses were the designers' primary motives, given that the machine was the winning entry in an art contest. The clue was in the "light on details" article:

"The machine has already won an award at the 2003 Machinista media art festival."

Also, the article gives a strong indication that the designers don't seem to be commercial developers:

"Researcher Jürg Lehni came up with the idea for Hektor when thinking about novel ways for an artist to turn computer-drawn images into something more concrete.

He wanted to combine the precision of computer-generated images with the woolier outlines produced by spray paint.

Working with friend and electronic engineering student Uli Franke, Mr Lehni created Hektor. The machine suspends a spray paint using two toothed belts that feed through a pair of motors."

Again, the focus seems to be on art, not on commercial applications.

Additionally, you seem to have missed the links to the Hektor, Machinista and the Zurich Kunsthaus gallery, where another Hektor-implemented piece of art can be found.

Cunningly - some would say as cunningly as a fox, what used to be professor of cunning at OxfordUniversity, who is now head of the United Nations department of cunning planning* - these were hidden on the very same page, under the deceptive title "Related Internet Links".

Is it me, or even when they RTFA do people forget to RTFA?

(* You can't use the word cunning without quoting Blackadder.)

Ignore the clown - the http://www.hektor.ch/ link is correct, albeit in a shambolic state at the moment...

With apologies to those running this project, its website is at http://www.hektor.ch. (Someone say Last Rites for the web server, please.) There's some neat footage of Hektor in action. Unfortunate, though, that it's so slow; the video of it drawing some peanuts seems to go on forever, and most of the time you can't tell what it's doing. It's certainly interesting, but more performance art than anything else.