• David Merrill
• Graduate student, MIT Media Lab

• Speaking at TED2009
• February 2009
• Long Beach, CA

Siftables, the toy blocks that think: 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?