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Using the StudyStack web site, you use your computer to display a stack of "virtual cards" which contain information about a certain subject. Just like flashcards, you can review the information at your own pace discarding the cards you've learned and keeping the ones you still need to review. However, unlike traditional flash cards, each card can show multiple pieces of information; and the whole stack can be automatically sorted by any one of the pieces of information. Also, when you enter the data for a studystack, the same data can automatically be displayed as flashcards, a matching game, a word search puzzle, and a hangman game.

Students can use StudyStack to create banks or stacks of electronic cards that can be reviewed online, printed, or exported to a pda, cell phone, or iPod. Email registration is required in order to create a Study Stack, but students can use public study s

Create "stacks "of your favorite web sites, videos, and images and then share them with others via email or in your blog/web site. You can add your own URLs too - no need to just use their search feature. Create your own stack today.

"Full-stack code anyone can run from their browser"

Siftables, the toy blocks that think: David Merrill on TED.com In the latest release from TED2009, MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. (Recorded in 2009 in Monterey, California. Duration: 7:09.)