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Baby blocks hardly seem like a technological frontier, but that is in the process of changing. The Takeaway’s tech contributor Baratunde Thurston and MIT researcher David Merrill explain the nexus between toy blocks and a series of really cool burgeoning technologies changing how we play.

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