What are Siftables:
Siftables are independent, compact devices (cookie-sized computers) with sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated (piling, grouping, sorting) as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables can be used to implement any number of gestural interaction languages and HCI applications. Also Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.(David Merrill, siftables.com)

To me this sounds the future is catching up on us real fast. Tangible cubicles that can contain, according what I have seen, anything, from educative features to musical features to video features and much more. What is makes it so great is that all cubicles can communicate with one and the other and interact. Especially the interaction makes them fantastic. Sure thing to follow.

I really see these Siftables as a future tool for educative purposes. Children can easily learn with these blocks. My daughter would love these.

Please watch David Merrill’s TED talk:

(thanks to Erlend for pointing me towards Dextrose)

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