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David Merrill: Siftables - Toy Blocks That Think

Posted in Computer, Futuretech, Science, Social, Technology on Feb 18th, 2009

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — 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. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
Check out his talk at TED below:

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Creativity is Being Strangled By Law - Larry Lessig (19min)

Posted in Business, Legal, Social, Video on Dec 7th, 2008

Interesting and entertaining presentation by Larry Lessig, a Stanford Law professor and an authority on copyright issues, at TED conference cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture.
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