Posts Tagged ‘TED talks’
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 [...]
Liz Diller: Architecture is a special effects machine
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Architecture, Art, Conceptual
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
Liz Diller and her maverick firm DS+R bring a groundbreaking approach to big and small projects in architecture, [...]
