Puzzlebrains

Siftables

(I'm not going to say anything more, because it spoils the impact. The video is only about five minutes long.)

You can't have any- you have more important things to do with your time.

What a dilemma... which TED talk is better? http://www.xkcd.com/541/

First off you can't have any- you have better things to do with your brain than play with building blocks.

Secondly, if this posts twice again I'm leaving it. Apologies in advance.

I want some too. Mind you, I'd probably end up leaving them somewhere stupid and sit on them, but there you go.

Yep, wouldn't mind some of those.

wouldn't mind one of these either
(for those who didn't see QI last night)

You'd better hope LAT's Ernie comes visiting, I think!!

I didn't understand what the German (?) commentary was all about, but I assume it was something to do with the fact that turtles can right themselves because of the shape and mathematical properties of their shell. I wish that worked with tortoises. Mine keeps turning himself upside down, and then stays there, unable to move, with his legs waving feebly until one of us rescues him.

I think a set of weebles may be cheaper

How good are these Siftable thingies? WOW!!!

I wish I had been able to get hold of 80 of the things a few weeks ago. I could have randomly arranged them as 7 random types of random FFFFFIIIIIIIISSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Then I might have had some idea what to do when they collectivly gave "Fly Away Cat" as the answer. Ha

Cheers. BB

Those Siftables look an interesting concept - easy to handle and a totally new 'shape' to push software into. The talk was very good, and the test applications very impressive.

I've seen a demo of the newer phones where you shake them to change channel or tilt them for volume control - so these are in the same technology field.


As for the 'pet rock' I was thinking "Weebles" before I saw any of the comments - it looks like I wasn't alone