I wrote about Siftables on my blog.
http://www.peterme.com/?p=735
In it I wrote,
"...one thing we’re still really stuck on is the Single Screen
Interface. All of this activity is still geared toward a single
display, whether a TV, mobile device, a computer screen, or a wall.
(Seeing Siftables made me only even more frustrated with iPhone,
because there’s no reason iPhones shouldn’t be able to directly engage
with one another (I mean, even the original Palm Pilots allowed
infrared beaming!). Instead, iPhones are isolated, attention-greedy
devices.)
Siftables begins to suggest what happens when your computers are
small, fast, cheap, and out of control (I very much think of Rodney
Brooks’ comments in Errol Morris’ superb film, Fast Cheap and Out of
Control.) There’s a whole new opportunity for connection, interaction,
swarming, meshing, and emergence.
Importantly, the form of Siftables also speaks to *fun*. They’re
blocks, and, as kids know, blocks are fun. The immediate impulse of
anyone interacting with Siftables is to *play* with them..."
--peter
On Feb 21, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Ted Kilian wrote:
Lots of things get called innovative these days; this one really
deserves the title. The possibilities are inspiring. Thanks for the
post.
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