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LEGO-Compatible Tape Lets You Build Gravity-Defying Inception-Style Models

Are plain old LEGO bricks gonna be ruined for you forever now that you’ve seen this flexible, cuttable, reusable LEGO-compatible adhesive tape? ‘Nimuno Loops’ is a crowdfunded creation that ...

Mini Modernists: 15 Designer Toys for Young Architecture Fans

Foster an appreciation for fine modernist architecture and design from an early age with Bauhaus dollhouses, Eames block sets, mini Corbusier lounge chairs and urban planning board games. There's ...

Brilliant Brick Creations: 13 Amazing LEGO Gadgets & Artworks

LEGOs can form the basis of all sorts of amazing things, but would you ever have imagined they could create working prosthetics, mechanical looms, drivable hot-rods and even full-sized houses? ...

Living Legos: Build Your Own Robot with TinkerBots Blocks

High-tech and low-tech come together with this set of not-so-basic building blocks connected to a central 'Power Brain' cube that turns your creation into a working robot. TinkerBots is a ...

LEGO Brooklyn: Artist Recreates Borough with Plastic Blocks

Familiar scenes from Brooklyn, from the local flower shop to the train station, are lovingly rendered in pixelated plastic by local resident and artist Jonathan Lopes. Lopes loves BK so much, he ...

Pixelated and Underwater: Azuma Makoto’s Bonsai Art

Bonsai trees are beautiful, but most require a very dedicated person to tend to their needs - unless they're made of Legos. Artist Azuma Makoto has not only created a bonsai made of these ...

Urban LEGOs: Conceptual Cure for Civic Blight Blindness

Chances are, you'd notice all of the vacant lots in your city if massive LEGO structures were used to call attention to the wasted space. 'Habit Makes Us Blind' is a concept by Spanish studio ...

Free Universal Construction Kit Bridges Generations of Toys

LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys ... what do they have in common? They each represent a universe of constructive possibilities, but each is incompatible with the next, like alien planets with ...

Bricks and Scones: British House Built Entirely of Legos

Who didn't want to live in a house of Lego bricks as a child? James May, host of a new BBC series called James May's Toy Stories (also a life-long toy enthusiast and the host of Top Gear) had to ...

Lego Imitates Art: 25 Fabulous Recreations of Films & More

We have Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, to thank for creating the first Lego block in 1932. If it were not for Christiansen's skill and imagination, the world would have ...

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