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Yule HeibelDavid Merrill, inventor of Siftables, interactive electronic building blocks, demonstrates his technology at the 2009 TED conference.
Amazing technology; when he started the demo, I was immediately reminded of what art historians _used to do_ when we still used slides: we used "slide tables" (basically light boxes) and moved the slides around to create and edit our lectures, really almost on the fly, as it were. It was a very creative way to put together a presentation and make connections between ideas, a tactile & spatial way, that you can't do anymore using only digital media. So it's kind of nice to see some of that spatial aspect coming back into how we (literally) manipulate information to make new connections.
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