Created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab, Stables are "cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications." In short, they are revolutionary.

Take a look at Merrill's TED 2009 talk:

Cross-posted at Composing Spaces.

I saw this special a few weeks ago, and it came up in conversation with a friend of mine yesterday so I thought I'd share it with you.

This story was on 60 Minutes, and discussed technology that is capable of "thought identification".

They talk about the benefits of this evolving technology, but we must look at the dangers of this concept.  Be sure to watch for the section at the 5:30 mark where they go over scanning the brain for memory of events and locations, as well as the 7:10 mark when they really blow your mind with proposed ideas for the future.

How do you feel about this?  This is another example of the idea that "Just because we can do something does not mean we should."