Subscribe by EmailSiftables: The amazing toy blocks that think
February 13, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 2 commentsIn the following video, 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?
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I need me a set of those!
They’ll never replace Lego, but they’re damn cool.
They should have also made them interact in some way when you stack them on top of one another, but, ya’ know, I guess they’re still pretty cool.