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One of the wonderful things about February is TED: the meeting of world's leading minds in Technology, Enterntainment, and Design. (You've probably heard about Bill Gates' presentation with mosquito accompaniment at this year's conference.) Take a look at this 7-minute eye-opening talk by grad student David Merrill about computers the size of brownies designed to work in rearrangeable groups. They're so sensitive to their context and to motion that you can use them to physically build music and stories, to solve equations, and to mix colors.
What future can you imagine for these mini-machines? I foresee sleeker versions--less plastic, more display--collected into outdoor mosaic installations that shift with temperature, wind, and touch. And oh how I could have used these back in college for my chemistry and calculus homework.
Thanks to Garr Reynolds' blog Presentation Zen for calling my attention to Merrill's talk. (And now, back to the PowerPoint work I was doing when Reynolds reference to this TED talk helped distract me. Ah, the Web.)
-- Holly
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