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TED Talks: Siftables, the toy blocks that think

submitted by qruel

1 decade 5 years 10 months 1 week ago

TED David Merrill Siftables toy blocks that think

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html

12 Comments

I have a big ole smile on my face. This is just wonderful stuff. Hooray for humankind!

Damn, you beat me.

frijoles says...

I want!

The all new Siftables... Collect them all!!

Was that the speak and spell sound I heard during the spelling siftable demo?

Looks like a fun little toy

>> ^Flood:
Was that the speak and spell sound I heard during the spelling siftable demo?

It totally was. "spell for as in for someone" heheheh

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, February 13th, 2009 7:49pm PST - promote requested by maatc.

VERY cool. But I wonder if there are battery limitations.

Amazing possibilities!

Imagine these words:
"Well. when I was little, we had these things called keyboards, where we actually had to type every single letter into the keyboard and make words one letter at a time to make the computer do what we wanted it to. We also had this thing we called mouse, huh?, I don't know, that's just what they called it..., anyway, you had to point and click it on everything, no, you couldn't pick it up, just click, click until your finger got tired."

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