Comments on: Why Siftables Excite Me

By: Mary Specht

Mary Specht — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:16:40 +0000

Peter, excellent point about our Single Screen world. It’s curious that we’ve done our best to pack features into that one screen, employing all sorts of metaphors to make it usable. And then something literal comes along–like physical objects with their own screens & abilities–and it’s jaw-dropping!

I’m very excited to follow Merrill’s project.

By: Amy Li

Amy Li — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:48:48 +0000

This is a fantastic product you’ve built Jeevan. Absolutely love it

By: Kate Carruthers

Kate Carruthers — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:55:28 +0000

This is so interesting – thanks for sharing. New interfaces that unshackle us from the computer are needed to move computing into the next generation.

By: Jeevan Kalanithi

Jeevan Kalanithi — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:01:14 +0000

Jeevan here, one of the creators of Siftables. Thanks for the supportive analysis! If it’s cool, I’d like to link to a recent blog post I wrote:

http://blog.tacolab.com/2009/02/multi-object-gesture/

I’m using the term “multi-object gesture” to try and sketch out the space in which new interfaces like siftables might live – one where interfaces are distributed across physical objects that are aware of each other and the physical world. I’m trying to capture, like Peter here, what is the thing in Siftables that captures people’s imagination, and based on that, what its possibilities are.