{"id":651484,"date":"2013-04-09T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74514"},"modified":"2013-04-09T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:15:58","slug":"littlebits-beep-and-blip-from-moma-design-store-window-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651484","title":{"rendered":"LittleBits beep and blip from MoMA Design Store window displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_74515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74515\" alt=\"Kids marvel at a moving shark, powered by littleBits. Photo: courtesy of Ayah Bdeir\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/soho-shark.jpg?w=900&#038;h=600\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids marvel at a moving shark, powered by littleBits, in the MoMA Design Store window. Photo: courtesy of Ayah Bdeir<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you pass a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momastore.org\/\">MoMA Design Store<\/a> in New York City today, you\u2019ll notice a slew of entrancing kinetic sculptures in their windows \u2013 a giant shark swimming after a lure and a cyclist powering a cardboard ferris wheel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_blink_beep_and_teach.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/f43e72d00a155fcfb1db0959a161e26ea3faa3a7_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>Each of these sculptures is powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/littlebits.cc\/\">littleBits<\/a>, the Lego-like electronic toys created by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/08\/28\/fellows-in-the-field-ayah-bdeirs-blinking-buzzy-building-blocks\/\">TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir<\/a>. LittleBits snap together with magnets to beep, light up and power motors. MoMA Stores have been <a href=\"http:\/\/littlebits.com\/momastore\">carrying the educational toys<\/a> since January.<\/p>\n<p>Bdeir tells the TED Blog that her collaboration with MoMA actually began two years ago, when littleBits were featured in the MoMA exhibit, \u201cTalk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects.\u201d When she heard the toys would be carried in the store, she quickly thought about fantastical window displays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are huge fans of MoMA and the MoMA store,\u201d she explains. \u201cSo we decided to pitch them an even bigger idea: what if we designed our own window display, entirely made with littleBits \u2026 Every single piece of the installation is made with littleBits &#8212; not a single external motor, or robotics platform, or programming whatsoever. The largest wheel and the smallest &#8216;lil guy are all animated with littleBits. It&#8217;s so mesmerizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K4fjKQPZ62Y\">Watch a video of the making of these window displays \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74516\" alt=\"LittleBits featured in the windows of the MoMA Design Store. Photo: courtesy of Ayah Bdeir\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/moma-storefront.jpg?w=900&#038;h=626\" width=\"900\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LittleBits featured in the windows of the MoMA Design Store. Photo: courtesy of Ayah Bdeir<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74514\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74514\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74514&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/IhRjqh4FQiw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids marvel at a moving shark, powered by littleBits, in the MoMA Design Store window. Photo: courtesy of Ayah Bdeir If you pass a MoMA Design Store in New York City today, you\u2019ll notice a slew of entrancing kinetic sculptures in their windows \u2013 a giant shark swimming after a lure and a cyclist powering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}