What are Siftables?
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Who created Siftables?
Siftables was created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab.
When can I buy some Siftables?
We are shooting for soon! Our patents are filed and we are working to commercialize the technology. Check back at this page and the Taco Lab Blog for updates.
Press
- When computing becomes child's play
- New Scientist, 2/2009
- Exploring Siftables: the blocks that play back
- Ars Technica, 3/2009
- TED: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
- TED, 2/2009
- Siftable Computing Makes Digital Data Physical
- Wired, 2/06/2009
- Rethinking display technology
- Boston Globe, 7/27/2008
- Student Design Review - Honorable mention
- ID Magazine, Sept / Oct '08 issue.
- Goodbye GUI, Hello TUI
- Media Magazine, 6/2008
- MIT's Siftables let you juggle your data… for real
- Engadget, 3/15/2008
- MIT's Siftables, the Domino-Like Computer
- Softpedia News
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