Wow, I want one of these. It's a touch-sensitive "Lemur" by a company called JazzMutant. I think it's just a universal graphical controller for tons of studio hardware. And it's only $250,000!
There used to be an effects pad or something that you could use your fingers to control like this but I can't remember it right now. I wonder how that sounds...
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php