Last night, Sifteo co-founder Jeevan Kalanithi attended the San Francisco Business Times 2012 Tech & Innovation Awards ceremony. All told, it was a pretty terrific night–good food, great company, AND he took home Sifteo’s award for first place in the Gadget/Product category!
After seeing several awards go to bigger companies with hundreds of employees and an established market following, Jeevan was startled but very excited to be called to the stage on behalf of our small startup. For future consideration, here are the takeaways from his moment of surprise:
Even if the award seems like a long-shot, have a few comments prepared, just in case;
Dress nicer, just in case;
When at the buffet table, eat more sliders.
After the ceremony, we asked Jeevan how he felt about it.
“Definitely nice,” he said. “It’s a great tribute to everybody here—I’m really proud of the award because I’m really proud of the work our team at Sifteo does everyday.”
This past Saturday, Sifteo joined 20,000 Girl Scouts as they celebrated their 100th Anniversary at the One Hundred, Fun Hundred Festival in Pleasanton, California. Among the zip lines, wild animals, bottle rockets, and thousands of patches, we had a blast showing off our intelligent game cubes.
What impressed us the most with this event was how excited the Girl Scouts were to learn and explore with Sifteo cubes! There is no better way to spend a Saturday than partying with an amazing group of young leaders and learners.
We will certainly be there for each Girl Scout milestone to come!
Thanks to SmartPlanet’s Sumi Das for the feature: “Building blocks get smarter with sensors.” SmartPlanet’s Sumi Das shows how these video game cubes communicate with each other for a novel way to play
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Sifteo was featured in Fast Company for great interface design!
“All of the designs profiled here share an ease of use–the hallmark of good UIs. But a new theme has surfaced: wondrous fun. From generative music and art apps to cubes that develop your spatial skills, many of these products combine the UIs more common to video games with mind-challenging play. Yep, some of this year’s best designs trick you into learning–lending credence to the value of gaming as an educational tool. ”
“These little [Sifteo] cubes turn 2-D gaming into 3-D motion-aware blocks that can be tilted, jostled, rotated, and clicked to play a variety of games–all in the service of intelligent play.”
The Electric Playground daily news TV show visited the Sifteo office to learn how we’re using little interactive cubes to create a new way to play. The video aired on ABC stations across the country, including WABC New York, KABC Los Angeles, WCIU Chicago, WFAA Dallas, KGO San Francisco, WCVB Boston, KING Seattle, KSTP Minneapolis, KNXV Phoenix, KXTV Sacramento and other stations.
If you didn’t catch it on TV, no worries! Watch the interview with David Merrill, Sifteo co-founder and president, right here.
10 hours of shooting in the Sifteo office and out and about San Francisco paid off! This video by Good.is featuring Sifteo co-founder David Merrill does a beautiful job of telling the Sifteo story.
“Sifteo co-founder David Merrill believes in the power of hands-on thinking. Using digital cubes, he explores how intelligent play and physical exploration with our hands stimulates cognitive learning. Defying the idea that technology creates a passive experience, Sifteo cubes engage users with games and encourage them to play and think nimbly with exploration-oriented problem solving.” See the full article on Good.is
Sifteo is a finalist for “Best New Gadget” in the 5th annual Mashable Awards!!! We’re up against some tough competition. Sifteo founders David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi discuss the reasons you should vote for Sifteo.
“Game maker–and game changer–Sifteo is building the future of play by incorporating the best of its past, combining the interactive nature of video games with the hands-on feel of timeless classics like dominoes, chess, and the Rubik’s Cube. ” — Fast Company
Sifteo created Sifteo cubes, a new hands-on platform for Intelligent Play. Neighbor, tilt, shake, and press Sifteo cubes to play our expanding library of downloadable games.
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