A Really Fun Way To Facilitate Spatial Reasoning And Pattern Recognition
Get your brain in gear! Sifteo Cubes are tiny wireless computers that interact with each other and sense their own motion to provide an innovative approach to hands-on play that makes you feel..intelligent!
Sifteo’s platform is a fresh, tactile take on interactive play. Use your hands to move, shake, flip, rotate and neighbor your Sifteo cubes – you’ll be inspired by Sifteo’s unique gameplay. Sifteo cubes have all kinds of puzzles and games to exercise your spatial reasoning, word-finding, pattern-matching and other awesome cranial powers. Recommended for ages 6+.
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Winner of many awards including "Popular Science -Best of What's New", "Fast Company- International Design Excellence Award" and "WIRED -Smart Gift for Tech Minded Tykes", each cube has a 128-pixel color LCD screen, wireless connectivity, a 32-bit ARM microprocessor, and an accelerometer that responds to stacking and tilting.
**Please note that use of your own computer is required during Sifteo gameplay.
Includes: 3 Sifteo cubes, a charging dock with wall adapter, three free games and 500 Sifteo 'points' to download more games plus the Sifteo Creativity Kit.
Dozens of downloadable games, most just a few dollars each, are available for an additional fee.
Thinking Skills
Sifteo’s games engage various thinking skills — from strategy and planning to creativity and design.
Spatial Reasoning
Understand relationships between objects in terms of distance and orientation
Logic and Computation
Build awareness of associations between numbers
Language and Literacy
Comprehend and use words, story elements and literary devices
Cooperation and Collaboration
Build and refine social skills to solve problems with other people
Expression and Emotion
Explore and understand emotions and how they are expressed
Strategy and Planning
Hone high-level thinking and problem solving skills
Creativity and Design
Build and create all kinds of compositions
Patterns and Perception
Sort and classify to fine-tune your ability to spot trends and patterns
Tech Specs:
32-bit ARM CPU
128 x 128 color TFT LCD
3-axis accelerometer
8MB Flash
Lithium Polymer rechargeable battery
2.4 GHz wireless radio
Sifteo cubes need a computer nearby to play games. The computer must meet the following requirements:
Windows
- 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor
- Windows XP SP3 with 512 MB of RAM, or
- Vista/Windows 7 with 1GB of RAM
Mac
- 1.5 GHz or faster Intel Core processor
- Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard 10.6 with 1GB of RAM
General
- 1024x768 or larger display
- Available USB 2.0 port
- 200 MB disk space (500MB recommended)
- Internet connection (for software download and setup)
