Friday, 13 February 2009

Demo of toy blocks that think and talk to each other TED

These are cookie-sized, computerized tiles called Siftables that you can stack and shuffle in your hands.

But they can do math, play music, and react to each other. Is this the dawn of spatially-aware computing? MIT student David Merrill got a great reaction from the crowd in this short demo.

Check it out here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html

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