Sifteo meets world
Posted January 19th, 2010 by Brent under News
We’ve had our new site and blog up for a few weeks now, but today we’re happy to officially announce Sifteo!
Last year Siftables was a research project initiated at the MIT Media Lab. Since then we have all finished our graduate work, and last summer we formed a start-up company called Sifteo. With support from True Ventures and the National Science Foundation, we are now hard at work developing the next generation of the technology to bring our vision of Siftables to the world.
In the past year we’ve received an overwhelming and international positive response. We’ve heard about the TED video being used in workshops and classrooms, and forwarded among friends, family, parents, students, teachers, and co-workers. Your support and feedback have been invaluable, and we are excited to be in contact with so many people who not only understand the potential of Siftables, but want to help us make them a reality on coffee tables, playgrounds and desks around the world.
This year we’ll be creating games, reaching out to developers, working with manufacturers, and running beta tests with players. We look forward to continuing to get to know everyone, and to working with you to create the future of play.
In addition to following the Sifteo blog, there are other ways you can keep tabs on Siftables activity: subscribe to our mailing list, follow us on Twitter (@Sifteo), or become a Fan on Facebook! And please keep sharing Siftables with the people you know who will see the possibilities.
Sincerely,
The Sifteo Team
{Dave,Brent,Jeevan}
I wish you all the best with your new company and I am looking forward to soon having my own set of Siftables to play with!
Martin.K
I agree with Martin!!
Please please please let this be released world-wide. I’m sick of great products being US only. See also, Plug Computing. I get nothing cool like this down here in Australia
The Siftables look great. I’m hoping to use these in the classroom as well as schoolwide.
I am looking so forward for these to be released. I have three children and my middle child can’t get enough when it comes to learning new things. I think he would fall in love with these. Keep us posted on when they are going to be available.
I love them and hope that they will be affordable for my one year old grandson!
when do you guys think it will come out?
Is this Bluetooth enabled so that I can interface it with my mobile phone?
What will be the expected sale price and release date be? These look so cool! My friend brings all these puzzles in to work, so I want to bring these in, and be like, “YOUR PUZZLE JUST GOT PWNT!”
So yeah… when are they getting released?
I hope you are investigating some partnerships to thinking through the implications for using Siftables to reach and teach kids with autism and other cognitive disabilities. The implications for the many ways they could be used to help teach communication, social skills, academics, etc., are simply staggering. My mind is racing….
these look soo cool, cant wait till they come out!
I am truly impresse by the engineering capabilities of this technology. Deciding on a major for college what would i need to do in order to become a part of the sifteo team?
I cannot wait to have my own set of siftables to work with as they appear truly remarkable.
Montessori in blocks!
I like, can I touch http://www.hulu.com/watch/73360/saturday-night-live-lawrence-welk
Would love to use these in my kindergarten class. Endless possibilities for education.
Just wondering, is an official SDK going to be released for designers and developers who want to write apps for this?
@tom, we do have an internal, high-level API for game and application developers, and we expect to release an official SDK in the future.
@John, yep, we are thinking along these lines as well.
@Quillan, if you’re interested in someday creating products like Siftables, it’s probably best to study multiple disciplines. Mix two or more of computer science, psychology, product design, visual art & design, game design, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and so on.
I teach High School Geography and am thinking of the many possibilities for education. My kids loved the TED video and all want a set.
I saw Siftables at Discovery Science, and then looked it up using Google, and found Sifteo.
I agree completely with Martin, Elliot and Adam.
I want my own set of Siftables.
I like the Maths application,
and the letters/wordbuilding application.
I am 43 years old, but the Siftables still looks so fun!
Please let me know when the company is ready to send Siftables….. Also where can I invest in your company?
Release them now! I’ve got such wonderful ideas of how to use this in an ESL classroom!
You’ve created a wonderful platform for such dynamic purposes! Bravo, boys!
Hello
Just want to say siftables are fantastic as a teaching tool especially since today’s students know the technology better than most teachers do. Where can I purchase a set to use in teaching my subject content? I see the future of education of the nations youth changing drastically and as a teacher I need to keep up with my students or at least be knowledgable.
Can you please,please,please,please let us know when this product is release. I REALLY hope its a worldwide release, it looks brilliant and I know lots of people would love to have it.
My nephew and niece would love this, I can see the educational aspect of this.