Toys of teh future are way cooler than toys I (we!) had.

slylittlefox · 13 Feb 2009 at 15:23

Tefal said:
Don't MIT have their own fusion reactor?

Indeed it seems they do: http://web.mit.edu/nrl/www/

Fusion · 13 Feb 2009 at 17:47

It is a fission reactor using Uranium fuel, not a fusion reactor.

slylittlefox · 13 Feb 2009 at 17:49

Fusion said:
It is a fission reactor using Uranium fuel, not a fusion reactor.

Forgive my ignorance

/off to wikipedia I go

Doohickey · 13 Feb 2009 at 18:08

I love ted.com

Tefal · 13 Feb 2009 at 18:14

Fusion said:
It is a fission reactor using Uranium fuel, not a fusion reactor.

nah they have a fusion one too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcator_C-Mod

Lumeycom · 13 Feb 2009 at 18:14

I want some dammit!

Hunders · 13 Feb 2009 at 18:27

El_Watcher said:
As an idea it is great, but it is wrong as a toy.

The purpose of a toy is not just to keep kids busy, but it is to release the imagination.

If you pour a bowl of Lego in front of a child they could build:
a car, boat, plane, spaceship, hospital, nuclear weapons factory, farm...anything. Anything the child can think of, can be done. The child can then create their own interactions between lego characters.

I agree. It's a fairly cool invention but it is far to limited when compared to something such as lego.

Tefal · 13 Feb 2009 at 18:32

El_Watcher said:
As an idea it is great, but it is wrong as a toy.

The purpose of a toy is not just to keep kids busy, but it is to release the imagination.

If you pour a bowl of Lego in front of a child they could build:
a car, boat, plane, spaceship, hospital, nuclear weapons factory, farm...anything. Anything the child can think of, can be done. The child can then create their own interactions between lego characters.
.

yeah but what about once they make them stackable/collectable so you can use them like lego etc but then put textures/pictures/video on the building/vheichal etc

LukeTW · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:10

I want some now

Look coooooool :cool:

Andr3w · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:15

thats cool!

Morthoseth · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:33

Absolutely breathtaking. He is going to be a very, very rich man indeed.

(He probably is already, but meh!)

Vixen · 13 Feb 2009 at 21:06

That's really cool. I think they look great for kids, especially as a classroom toy. The interactions may be limited at the moment, but they're still pretty much a prototype with only one programmer creating things for them.

thevet · 13 Feb 2009 at 21:51

when i was 6 years old i had a zx81...nowadays kids have a xbox360 or ps3 or wii.....and i thought i was lucky...kids dont know there born nowadays

V4NT0M · 13 Feb 2009 at 21:51

Nice, wish I had those when I was little, heck, I want them now!

Blogged.

sid · 13 Feb 2009 at 22:11

Looks like it was done before according to one of the comments

http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatile/

sid

V4NT0M · 13 Feb 2009 at 22:12

sid said:
Looks like it was done before according to one of the comments

http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatile/

sid

That's totally different they're all on a panel there.

Tee Hee Johnson · 13 Feb 2009 at 22:16

Thats pretty impressive

The words and numbers seems good!

Also the control the cartoon... could see that working

Not overly sure on the music one, but i guess that can kinda show the 'power' of what they can do!

sid · 13 Feb 2009 at 22:18

Skyfall said:
That's totally different they're all on a panel there.

meh but its still seems evolutionary to me.

In any case, that was from 2001, its been like 8 years since to develop

yipyipboo · 13 Feb 2009 at 23:07

very cool

Raymond Lin · 13 Feb 2009 at 23:19

Whoever control the release of software for this will make a mint !