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I’d love a set!

By Phi | Published: 21 Feb 09
As computation becomes smaller and cheaper and more powerful, the big question remains "What are we going to do with all that?". Cell phones and iPhones are one answer to that question, but in some sense a boring one because they're mostly just littler laptops. Siftables, on the other hand, are representative of some of the genuinely new possibilities that these technologies enable, and are therefore much, much cooler :-).
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So, so cool looking — but I can’t play yet!

By Phi | Published: 9 Mar 08
Much chops to Bad Science for pointing out Phun, a simulation environment/game/construction engine thingie that (judging from the videos) is just super fun (ho, ho, ho) to fiddle with. It seems a wonderfully open-ended platform for making stuff, which is of course the great strength of a pad and paper, or a bucket of Legos. [...]
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