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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. Re:Amazing by idontgno · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think they still have some standards.

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  2. Re:A comment on the comments: by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I couldn't agree more. I suspect these folks are in the minority Luddite contingent of /. These blocks were amazing, and are a great UI, especially for kids.

    Or, perhaps, they just think this idea is stupid. There are tons of idiotic ideas that come out in the tech world. There's nothing wrong with finding any particular idea useless.

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