Siftables

 Handling blocks is one of the earliest forms of play, and for generations the wooden toys have been found on the floor of every  home. Now, MIT graduate student David Merill and Jeevan Kalanithi had grand plans for the humble block. They wants them to think, and play back. And hence came out the Siftables."Siftables are cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too".

 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.

Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform and OS on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

 Each Siftable has a color OLED screen, four infrared communication modules - one in each direction in the horizontal plane - a 3-axis accelerometer, and a Bluetooth radio. The Siftables have many applications including language, math, and logic games for kids.

• Sifatbles are future-toys which can do math, play music, and talk to their friends.With Sifatbles, you can create “virtual blocks” that can seriously do the math.
• Another application for the youngsters is the ability to line up different Siftables to create an interactive story.
• If you look at the picture, you can see that someone is mapping out some sort of computer program with the Siftables. By the way, you can also play a Boggle-type game with a handful of these Siftables.

The applications of siftables can be understood more crisp & clear by watching the demos. Demos are in the following videos.

Enjoy the revolution in Electronics.