“In the Studio,” Sifteo’s David Merrill Unveils “Sifteo Cubes” To The World

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.

“In the Studio” presents the first of two special holiday segments this Thanksgiving by welcoming one of the co-founders of one of my personal favorite startup companies. Almost five years ago, Sifteo’s David Merrill and his cofounder, Jeevan Kalanathi, embarked on a long journey that would take them from MIT’s Media Lab to San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, to blazing a trail for other venture-backed hardware startups during a time when traditional venture capital was more reluctant to deploy funds in this space. The result, after years and years of hard work, persistance, and learnings, is the Sifteo Cube, a set of small siftable computerized tiles with preloaded games for kids to play with and learn about math, spacial recognition, and most importantly, tactile play with real objects.

I invited Sifteo’s President, David Merrill, into the studio to talk about his long journey, the TED talk that turned his idea into a sensation, and the ups-and-downs encountered along the way, when hardware startups weren’t “cool.” In our discussion, we discuss the world of play for kids, the venture environment toward hardware today, what other resources hardware entrepreneurs can access, the trials of building a hardware startup and platform company at the same time, and a live demo of his cubes. Sifteo is unveiling these gaming cubes to the world right now, designed for folks aged 7 to adult, and inspired to make kids and others play with real tactile objects to learn. Merrill and his colleagues also have an SDK for developers out there who want to build educational games on this new platform. (There’s another Sifteo video demo below.)

Overall, when it comes to the long struggle of entrepreneurship, of creating an idea and working on it for a really long time, of building hardware, software, and a platform at the same time, a company like Sifteo, its founders, and early investors really deserve a lot of credit for their patience and vision to bring these kind of consumer electronics to market.

Matt Smith’s 30th Birthday TARDIS Cake [pic + video]

Yesterday, Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor hit the milestone age of 30 and the Doctor Who production crew decided to do something special to celebrate the event.

The Doctor Who crew thought it would be fitting to make this awesome TARDIS cake to celebrate Matt’s 30th birthday. As if that wasn’t enough, the crew (including his the Doctor’s new companion) put on Matt Smith masks and sang happy birthday as Matt walked into the room (check out the video below to see it).

I guess if you have to work on your birthday, its nice that your co-workers at least do something like make a really cook cake to celebrate it.

Happy Birthday Matt!

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Matt Smith Doctor Who TARDIS Birthday Cake

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All-New YouTube App Released Ahead of iOS 6, iPad Version Coming Soon

Much like those who ask for a Kleenex when they are looking for a facial tissue or request that you make a Xerox when what they really want is a photocopy, YouTube is becoming a proper noun these days… this place where we all go to see the videos that everybody is talking about. Just ahead of the exected release of iOS 6, our trusted Internet friend has released an update for their iPhone and iPod touch app (with a new iPad version expected very soon)!

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