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Siftable Computing Makes Digital Data Physical

Following Wednesday's presentation at the TED conference on the Lab's "sixth sense" project, another MIT student in the Lab's "siftable" computing group spoke Friday afternoon at TED about digital cubes he and another student have created that interact with one another.

David Merrill, a graduate research assistant at the lab, said the idea for the cubes came from the concept of sifting and sorting things with your hands, like photos spread out on a table.

"We thought wouldn't it be cool if you could interact with digital things like this," Merrill said. "We wanted to make a physical embodiment for any piece of digital data."