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Design Nirvana: Lego Teams Up With Muji

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:38:40 -0500

Lego has launched thousands of young designers into a lifetime of tinkering; Muji is a paragon of clean, ingenious design. So naturally, the two have paired up for toy sets that blend elements from each powerhouse.

The kit comes with Lego bricks, some paper, and a special hole punch that's exactly the size of a Lego peg. You start by punching out patterns in the paper:

Five To-Die-For Augmented Reality Shopping Apps

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:25:35 -0400

Think of the scenes at the Gap in Minority Report. And then imagine it's not dystopian sci-fi but the lifestyle-enhancing future of shopping where there's no line between online and offline shopping. That's what happens when you layer virtual information over the physical world--and then add commerce.

LEGO's Block-Inspired Electronics Are Ready to Be Snapped Up This Fall

Clay Dillow — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:52:54 -0400

LEGO has teamed with electronics designer Digital Blue to create a line of LEGO-inspired consumer electronics for creative kids and nostalgic adults alike. Announced earlier this year, the final product will be available this fall, and the line includes digital cameras (1.5 megapixel), walkie talkies, MP3 players, boom boxes and alarm clocks, and USB drives constructed of iconic LEGO components--but not actual bricks that you can snap apart.

Art Center Students Design the School Bus of the Future

Alissa Walker — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:03:26 -0400

Public transit vehicle design has grown in leaps and bounds; consider the accordion-like articulations and sleek streamline curves of one city's rapid bus. But what about the millions of kids getting shuttled to and from school in this country every day? Their lumbering yellow school bus hasn't been given a once-over since someone thought to add seatbelts back in the 1980s.

Lego To Make Blocky MP3 Players, Cameras and Walkie-Talkies

Kit Eaton — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:06:23 -0500

Okay, it's strictly an agreement between Lego and manufacturer Digital Blue that's the source of these new gizmos--but they are going to be Lego brick-shaped. And that'll get millions of kids (and a huge bunch of adults) salivating, for sure.