Siftables: The Toy Blocks that Think

Posted on February 13, 2009 
Filed Under Innovation

This morning I came across another amazing talk from TED. Every year the talks at TED are just flat out amazing. At first glance the video below is just a tech demo from David Merrill from the MIT Media Lab, but if you watch it and think about what is going on we are in for a whole new set of human computer interactions. Really an amazing example of what can be when one throws away old conventions and embraces new ones. His Siftables are essentially blocks that can be configured to interact with each other is some really interesting and amazing ways.

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  1. david stong on February 14th, 2009 9:00 am

    Makes me wonder what amazing things kids might get them to do. I’d love to watch a room full of kids, each with a box of these.

    Also makes me wonder how many of us enjoy TED? I can never watch just one… and I wonder what it would take to do something similar here? Maybe just one track at the symposium, filled with 20 minute talks from some of our amazing people?

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