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Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 13, 2009 @05:51AM 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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Re:first prost by aliquis · 2009-02-13 05:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

.. fail!
Re:Amazing by morgan_greywolf · 2009-02-13 07:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WTF? He probably would have thought of bicycles with mounted headlights.
No. He thought about someone walking in the train while the train was moving. That's what started the whole chain of thought, at least according to Einstein's accounting of it.
A bicycle with mounted headlights isn't the same thing.

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