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Web and print press covering the littleBits revolution

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02/21/2012 - littleBits “Best High Tech Maker Toy” on CuteMonster.com!
“I could envision their starter kits as must have items for elementary school science labs. littleBits has reinvented the traditional idea of the study of
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02/20/2012 - littleBits on DadDoes.com!
Check out Paul in this video talking about littleBits and demoing our newest projects and bits! Check out the littlePiggy tutorial!   Read the article
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02/17/2012 - Crave giving away two littleBits starter kits!
Hurry up and register now on Cnet to win not one, but TWO littleBits starter kits! Deadline is on Monday Feb 20 so you only
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02/15/2012 - littleBits just won “best of toy fair 2012″!
GREAT NEWS!! littleBits just won “Best of Toy Fair 2012″!!   We even got featured in PopSci’s online article “The most incredible toys we saw at the Toy
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02/15/2012 - littleBits on Good Housekeeping again!
On February 15, Good Housekeeping‘s Nicole Price Fasig talks about littleBits at the toy fair and describes it as an “educational toy that highlights the properties of electricity
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02/14/2012 - littleBits stealing the spotlight at the Toy Fair!
NY1 mentions littleBits in its report as one of the high-tech toys that is stealing the spotlight at the Toy Fair in New York (taking
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02/10/2012 - littleBits on CNET!
“I like to think I’m pretty young at heart, but even I forget sometimes how fun it was to be a kid, when being entertained
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01/22/2012 - littleBits is in daily Br!nk!
“A certain Mr. Steve Jobs had a brilliant idea once, which involved making computers accessible to everyone. Ayah Bdeir is pushing this simple concept to
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01/21/2012 - littleBits on Bloomberg TV!
On January 19, littleBits was featured on Bloomberg TV in a segment called “Legos for the iPad Generation” as part of  their show “Innovators”. The
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01/10/2012 - Forbes catches the littleBits bug!
Forbes’ wonderful Angela Haines writes about littleBits in “Making Science Fun With High-Tech Popsicle Sticks And Pipe Cleaners”. Photoshoot at Collab courtesy of Zack DeZon!
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12/28/2011 - iSGTW Article
  “A 2010 report found American children spend an average of 7.5 hours per day using technology devices. But, few know how these devices work
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12/16/2011 - littleBits featured on Good Housekeeping!
littleBits is described as the “Great new toy for building engineers” ! Read all about us on the Good Housekeeping website (December 16, 2011).  
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10/10/2011 - littleBits featured on BBC’s living online
We are one of 3 companies featured on BBC’s living online with a special demo and our first press visit to the office! Watch the
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09/18/2011 - We won a MAKE Editor’s Choice Award… again!
We won one 2 years ago with our first littleBits prototype, and now we did it again! littleBits gets picked by MAKE Magazine for a
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09/16/2011 - MAKE Spotlight on littleBits
Dale Dougherty, founder of MAKE, came to visit us at our office and shot a littleBits spotlight for MAKE and MAKERFAIRE. Don’t forget to catch
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06/4/2011 - Inc. features littleBits as one of 6 inventions transforming innovation
Inc Magazine features littleBits as one of 6 inventions that are transforming innovation, prototyping, and engineering. These tools succeeded in “transforming innovation from a complicated
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05/13/2011 - littleBits featured in the New York Times Magazine!
littleBits is featured in the New York Times Magazine in a beautiful article about the maker movement, alongside our friends at Adafruit, MediaLab, MakerBot, CloudFab
01/20/2011 - “Electronics as Material Studio” paper published in TEI Proceedings
We can sometimes wear our academic hat too. A continuation to our first paper: Electronics As Material (published 09) this studio paper is . Published
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11/20/2010 - baby’s first book feature
littleBits makes its book debut in Sabine Seymour’s Functional Aesthetics in the Kits section.
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09/21/2010 - littleBits and Open Hardware Summit in Create Digital Music
Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music writes about the Open Hardware Summit and littleBits in: Summit Touts Open Source Hardware
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05/14/2010 - interview on WMMNA
Long interview about littleBits on we make money not art: “littleBits, pre-engineered circuit boards connected by tiny magnets”  
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05/31/2009 - Blueribbon at Makerfaire
We won a Blue Ribbon at MakerFaire: Editor’s Pick! Pictures of littleBits at Maker Faire
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05/13/2009 - blurb on kottke.org
littleBits is described as ” simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together”. Read the little
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03/2/2009 - littleBits on harkopen.com
littleBits featured on harkopen.com!
01/20/2009 - Electronics As Material academic paper
As an companion to our very own, Ayah Bdeir’s keynote invited talk at TEI’09, we published an academic paper on Electronics As Material in the
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08/25/2008 - littleBits on Core77
Ultrafast prototyping with littleBits on Core77! Check it out!
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08/15/2008 - littleBits is getting blogged!
littleBits is getting blogged like crazy! Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Geek, Make and many more!
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08/13/2008 - littleBits on Engadget
littleBits gets on Engadget.
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06/20/2008 - littleBits on Adafruit
  ladyada on littleBits.  

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News, upcoming events and littleBits updates

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01/16/2012 - Launching new bits, on Bloomberg TV, with our littlePiggy!
For all you patient littleBits fans, good news! We are launching new littleBits modules and kits, on Bloomberg TV no less! Make your own active
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12/13/2011 - littleBits starter kits v0.2, $89 and just in time for the holidays!
BUY THE STARTER KIT HERE After we sold out the first run, this just in, just in the nick of time for the holidays! We’re
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10/30/2011 - halloween with your starter kit!
littleBits loves halloween! And for this special occasion, we unveil the “halloween with a littleBits starter kit” video. Showing you 3 quick and fabulous halloween
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10/25/2011 - Getting fancy at the New York Hall of Science gala
On October 25th, we were one of 6 lucky invitees to the New York Hall of Science benefit gala. Being big fans of NYSCI’s mission,
10/11/2011 - we are hiring!
littleBits is looking for superstars (and superstars-to-be) to join our core team. If you believe in our mission, we’d love to hear from you! Browse the
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10/6/2011 - littleBits closes first round of financing, also enters MoMA’s collection!
Photo by Brian Finke for the New York Times   It’s a big, BIG, day at littleBits! First, we are thrilled to announce that we
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09/19/2011 - littleBits Starter Kits ON SALE NOW!
The long anticipated littleBits starter kit is finally on sale! Get your fix on sparkfun’s website now! If you’re at Makerfaire, come find us at
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09/5/2011 - littleBits at World Maker Faire!
Hello friends, please come out and say hi at this years World Maker Faire. littleBits will be at booth #7038 during the Faire and we
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09/3/2011 - littleBits helps put together the Open Hardware Summit (and demoes too)!
For the second year in a row, littleBits is a catalyst and organizer of the Open Hardware Summit, occurring at the New York Hall of
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07/18/2011 - littleBits’ MoMA debut!
photo by Shigeru Kobayashi littleBits is part of MoMA’s upcoming Design Exhibit “Talk To Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects“. The show
05/9/2011 - new website up
We clean up nice, don’t we? The new littleBits website is up with snapShots, newsBits, and sneak peeks of the Starter Kits to pre-order. Thanks
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03/16/2011 - littleBits endorses Open Hardware Definition 1.0
With a group of open hardware enthusiasts, and The Open Hardware Summit participants, we released the Open Source Hardware Definition 1.0 today, and we were
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01/16/2011 - littleBits Demo at TEI’11
littleBits is at TEI’11 in beautiful Funchal, Portugal running demos of our pretty little kits. We’re also giving a talk on the Future Outlook Panel
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09/10/2010 - littleBits Starter Kit On Sale Soon!
Get ready fans, littleBits starter kits will be on sale soon! More details about the Starter Kit here. Pre-order your kit now.
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07/20/2010 - littleBits Helps Organize Open Hardware Summit in New York
The inaugural Open Hardware Summit organized by littleBits, Buglabs, Creative Commons and Makerfaire is coming September 23rd to the New York Hall of Science! Attend, Speak,
06/1/2010 - pro-pro-production
We didn’t disappear! We are knee deep in hardware manufacturing! Working hard on the littleBits kits…
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05/30/2010 - littleBits at MakerFaire
We are going to MakerFaire on the 30th and 31st of May, come see us if you are nearby! Pictures online here.
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03/17/2010 - Opening Hardware Workshop
littleBits organizes Opening Hardware workshop at Eyebeam with Creative Commons, Arduino, MAKE, Adafruit, and many others!
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12/30/2009 - Call for Interns
Call for Interns at Eyebeam: Electronics Intern. So hurry up & apply!
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12/12/2009 - Call to Videographers
Call for Interns at Eyebeam: Video and Photography Intern
11/17/2009 - littleBits at 4Site Forum in Beirut
Ayah Bdeir and littleBits at 4SITEForum, the first interactive conference in the Middle East, as part of a panel with John Wilbanks (Science Commons).
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05/31/2009 - Pictures from Eyebeam’s Open Studios
Pictures from Eyebeam‘s Open Studios are here. Check them out!
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05/13/2009 - Pictures from the Exhibit Launch Party
Pictures from the launch party and exhibition opening are out. Check them out!
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04/30/2009 - littleBits Exhibit at Eyebeam
Join us at the littleBits exhibit at Eyebeam (540 West 21st street, NY NY 10011) until the 16th of May.
02/16/2009 - littleBits in the UK
littleBits is on the move! We are in the UK for an invited talk as part of the Tangible and Embedded Interaction in Cambridge
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07/28/2008 - littleBits at the Sketching in Hardware Conference
We are going to RISD to the Sketching in Hardware conference. Meet us there! Pictures here
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06/24/2008 - littleBits in Berlin
littleBits is at Friends of Fritzing Summit in Berlin. Guten Tag!
06/10/2008 - littleBits Intro Video
At last, the littleBits intro video is online. Send us ideas, suggestions and feedback!
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05/28/2008 - littleBits is (sort of) Out
Version 0 of littleBits is (sort of) out!