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Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-will-they-survive-my-2-year-old dept.

Chris Anderson writes "This 5-min demo just posted from last week's TED — got a big crowd reaction. It's a new technology coming out of MIT, about to be commercialized. Siftables have been seen before, but not like this. They're toy blocks/tiles that are spatially aware and interact with each other in very cool ways. Initial use may be as toys, but there's big potential for new paradigm of spatially-aware physical mini computers."

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  1. How long before they become self-aware too? by Bruiser80 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our modular overlords.

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  2. Someone should combine these by uxbn_kuribo · · Score: 3, Funny

    With Self Replicating Robots. Skynet's soldiers will need to be able to know their proximity to one another.

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  3. This is going to be bad by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smart building blocks? I'm not looking forward to a Lego Terminator coming out of this.

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  4. Re:Do they... by daveime · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but if you leave two of them next to each other, the following morning they will have stacked on top of each other, and then miraculously after 9 months, a smaller third block will appear from nowhere, that seems to do nothing but emit an annoying shrieking sound and leak battery acid.

  5. Re:Uh-huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Came in for the SG-1 reference. Not leaving disappointed.