Interactive toy tiles with David Merrill
Mar 03, 2026•10 min
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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?
Talk by David Merrill.
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