# David Merrill demos Siftables

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Music, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/DavidMerrill_2009)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/DavidMerrill_2009?play=1)