Topobo is an experimental building system developed by Hayes Solos Raffle and Amanda J. Parkes at MIT’s Media Lab that adds motion with memory to traditional building blocks. After ‘teaching’ the forms you build how to move, the blocks will memorize the movements and repeat them back, allowing you to create a kinetic sculpture with real motion. Currently Topobo is just a concept design, but it looks like a lot of fun—hopefully the mechanism that makes them function isn’t too complicated to commercialize (it looks simple enough to me).
Project Page [MIT via CoolHunting]
