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Press PagePress ReleaseHere is the Kickstarter Page. See, also, the home page for a complete story of what MaKey MaKey is. Images Here is a FlickR Image Set with High-Res Product Photos Here are some action shots from the Maker Faire, also high-res. For now our homepage text and images stand as our press release. Video Here's an HD video in mp4 format (same content as the kickstarter video) for you to download and reuse Here is a MaKey MaKey Youtube Video. Short Blurb/Tweet Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to Your World. Homepage makeymakey.com Contact Eric is on Boston EDT time. Jay is on San Francisco PDT time. Jay Silver can be reached at email: jay@joylabz.com Eric Rosenbaum can be reached at email: eric.rosenbaum@gmail.com 
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Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to Your World.   In stock! Ships immediately! Reviews
"four-year-old daughter has managed to connect the kit" ~BBC
"Rejoice!" ~Mashable "by far the coolest Kickstarter project" ~Kotaku "turns the whole world into a keybaord" ~Engadget "a lot of enthusiasm and love" ~Wired "crazy, inventive experiments" ~PC World "We love a good diy project" ~LIfehacker "So small, so quirky, so simple, so awesome." ~Contiki "Mind explosion in progress." ~Indie Cookie "turns your alphabet soup into a keyboard" ~New Scientist "Edison meets OK Go" ~Cool Material 
Order Your Kit Includes MaKey MaKey, Red USB Cable, 7 Alligator Clips, 6 Connector Wires Who's Behind This?Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum are final-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab. They have both been working with invention kits for the last decade. They are the people who brought you Drawdio and Singing Fingers, and they are on the Scratch programming language team in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT. The kit is based on research at MIT Media Lab, and the circuit was designed in collaboration with Sparkfun. The original funding was Kickstarted.ERIC'S BIO 
Eric Rosenbaum is a doctoral student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, where he creates new technologies at the intersection of music, improvisation, play and learning. His projects include software for finger painting with sound, painting with light, improvising with looping sounds, and creating interactive behaviors in 3D virtual worlds. His recent speaking appearances have included TEDx Pioneer Valley, Economist Tech Frontiers, and Dust or Magic App Camp. His work has been shown at venues including San Francisco Exploratorium, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, San Jose Tech Museum, and the OFFFmatica and CineKid festivals. Eric holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Technology in Education from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab, for which he developed Jots, a system to support reflective learning in the Scratch programming environment. See Eric's Portfolio JAY'S BIO  Jay Silver is a PhD student at MIT Media Lab where he won a Lemelson-MIT Award for Invention and Innovation. He works for Intel Labs "Interaction Experience Research" group as a Maker Research Scientist. Time named one of his inventions "Top 15 Toys for Young Geniuses." Jay has given talks at TEDx Sacramento, TEDx Santa Cruz, and TEDx Amherst. He has exhibited internationally at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Exploratorium, Ars Electronica, etc. He also runs digital prototyping workshops for many companies such as IDEO, LEGO, and Intel. Jay studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech where he was named Engineer of the Year. He was awarded a Gates Scholarship to earn a master's in Internet Technology from Cambridge University. He also holds a master's in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab where he invented "Camera for the Invisible." See Jay's Portfolio Kickstarted |
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