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Siftables: Interactive Media Brick

19 March 2008 No Comment

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早前熱談過的Optimus Keyboard利用OLED創造出一個無論在視覺上和價錢上都很具氣派的”Media Keyboard”, 一下子讓OLED變成Media創作的新寵兒.

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又早前熱談,已經有售的bugLabs採用Lego般的積木互動法進行Prototype的始型電子創作.

若果兩隻加起來….
MIT Media Lab的D. Merrill和J. Kalanithi就是這樣做了出來. 積木互動法和類似lego的積木, 嵌入了OLED, 就變成了這個Sifttables.

當中部份的Technical Specification:
# short-range infrared communication in 4 directions
# 3-axis accelerometer
# Bluetooth radio
# flash memory
# rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
# tactile/haptic actuation driver circuit
# expansion ports for adding extra sensors, actuators.

其”expanision ports”更像bug labs. 不過不用真的拼起來, Siftables是”short-range” wireless的. 我不諱言早前有學生的畢業作正要做類似Siftable的東西: 兩個brick之間組起來有視覺上的拼合和關連. 當然我會覺得這位學生還有一點更好的概念bug labs和siftable都未有做到的.

Siftables也讓我想起同樣是MIT出產的Pico Block. Pico Block是給小朋友首嘗電子創作的簡單”積木”. 這塊電子積木同樣可以加上sensor, 配合超簡單的Pico Block軟件可以像Lego Mindstorm般做出一點點簡單的”Phsyical Computing”.
謝謝Noah早前親自來到學校展示給我看.
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伸延閱讀
Siftables: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/siftables.html
Optimus Keyboard: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
BugLabs: http://www.buglabs.net

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