Imagine... childrens blocks that are actually each tiny computers, and each block is aware of the other blocks on the table. What could you do with that? This is a demo that is probably worth watching all the way through. It includes some adults doing demos, but also some children having fun. You can talk about the bigger issue of whether we actually WANT all our toys to be expensive computers, but also ask if students can imagine how this idea came about. Sometimes great new ideas arrive by pushing two quite disparate ideas together (wooden blocks, computer). What else could students come up with just with that starting point? I wonder if https://www.sifteo.com/ is selling the same object or some kind of copy? Can students work out the issues of moving this from prototype to sale?
Andrew Lack
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