Posts Tagged ‘sync’
David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Design, Music, Science, TED talks, life, web
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?
link to this TED talk / Devid Merrill’s Siftables project / Devid Merrill at MIT Media [...]
Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, Science, TED talks, life
Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit — when no one’s giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.
