Interactive cards – Siftables

I’m a big fan of connected devices (and I should – my companies built a couple of those) so seeing MIT’s David Merril’s toys at this year’s TED was pretty exciting. I’m especially interested in the use cases they came up with and I could totally imagine having my little boy having fun learning about figures and spelling words with those little interactive devices, just the way I had fun with TI’s Speak and Spell in the 80s.
As you may have figured out there’s a lot of tech in there, I guess there must be about 23USD of parts within each “Siftable” which would put a retail price for a 10-pieces pack + the PC dongle at about 500USD… I guess we’ll have to wait a bit to see such things at Toys’r'us but this is exciting !