Siftables

Putting information in the palm of your hand

Overview

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.

We have manufactured and distributed a few hundred siftables; an external community of designers and researchers is actively building applications for them. Siftables was originally designed and built by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab. Patent filed.

Selected Press

• Exploring Siftables: the blocks that play back (Ars Technica, 3/2009).
• When computing becomes child's play (New Scientist, 2/2009).
• 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).
• Honorable mention in ID Magazine's Student Design Review (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)

See also siftables.com.