Siftables

= not open sourced, patent filed!

URL = http://siftables.com/

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Description

" 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." (http://tacolab.com/projects/Siftables)