Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks

Chris Anderson writes "This 5-min demo just posted from last week's TED — got a big crowd reaction. It's a new technology coming out of MIT, about to be commercialized. Siftables have been seen before, but not like this. They're toy blocks/tiles that are spatially aware and interact with each other in very cool ways. Initial use may be as toys, but there's big potential for new paradigm of spatially-aware physical mini computers."

How long before they become self-aware too?

[Bruiser80]

I for one welcome our modular overlords.

Someone should combine these

[uxbn_kuribo]

With Self Replicating Robots. Skynet's soldiers will need to be able to know their proximity to one another.

This is going to be bad

[Hoi Polloi]

Smart building blocks? I'm not looking forward to a Lego Terminator coming out of this.

Re:Do they...

[daveime]

No, but if you leave two of them next to each other, the following morning they will have stacked on top of each other, and then miraculously after 9 months, a smaller third block will appear from nowhere, that seems to do nothing but emit an annoying shrieking sound and leak battery acid.

Re:Uh-huh

[Anonymous Coward]

Came in for the SG-1 reference. Not leaving disappointed.