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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Very Smart: Tomodachi: The building blocks of friendship (Wired UK)

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Excerpt:

"...Designer Aya Shimada has designed ... the Tomodachi (Japanese for "friends") Blocks. Each one wirelessly connects to the web and can be representative of a single buddy. As Yanko Design explains, the block will then live-stream audio and video from that friend using an onboard speaker and iPod nano-sized screen built onto the block.

However, Shimada's most novel idea is that you could then stack the blocks and their internal sensors will then pick-up on who is present to allow group chat...."

Posted via email from Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales

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