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more about #lego more comments → maven2k: Carl Sagan was a genius and that ship is cool , but if you stand it on it's end it looks like a lamp without a shade. I'm just sayin... #carlsagan more » Coolmodo: I don't know Cosmos, but Benny Hill was the best, I loved his show. I should try and buy the dvd if it's available. Thanks for bringing back these mem... more » A Pimp Named DaveR: I usually go for the conquest victory in Civ myself.... #carlsagan more » Noobs-R-Us: billiions and billiions of boring speeches followed by billiions and billiions of awful FX. more » ka1axy: Pfffft. Godel, Escher and Bach. Hofstader did it with a chunk of wood. And a digital sundial: [community.middlebury.edu] #shadowart more » dporvaznik002: Interesting... I'd be more impressed if the object that the shadow belongs to, could be used to create all three shadows simply by changing perspective. more » Pessimippopotamus: Pah. This is the real LEGO Dragon. And I can't find LEGO Technic pieces where I live. #lego more » B: It's clearly a dracolich, not a dragon. #lego more » Purple Dave: All too often I see someone's attempt to make a LEGO western dragon and I am sorely disappointed, either because it doesn't look organic enough, or be... more » franco1975: This is cool but is this from a model dragon set or did he make it out of those normal Lego bricks? Im asking because the shapes of the bricks are cus... more » -
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Carl Sagan Deep Space Ship to Go to the Living Room and Beyond
When I was 12, Cosmos was one of my favorite TV shows. The other was Benny Hill. Clearly, planetary exploration and semi-neekeed girls go together like William Shatner and Elton John songs, whiskey and glass, or Lego and awesome spaceships. More » -
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Magic Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows
The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. These amorphous volumes can magically throw three different object shadows, all thanks to a program called Shadow Art. See it in action here: More » -
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Here Be Lego Dragons
Dragons existed? Well, no, not unless their bones were made of Lego. More » -
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The Perfect Lego NES Only Plays Bricked Tetris
This full scale Lego NES reproduction is exactly like the original, complete with video and audio connectors, gamepads with flexible cables made out of solid pieces, pushable buttons, and a working front-loading mechanism to insert the included Tetris cartridge. More » -
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The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built
If you have $3700 handy, you can buy this 6-foot tall, 110-pound, 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan, and 175 hours over 16 days to build. More » -
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Assault the Lego Wedding Castle, Save the Princess, Save the World
Showing again that Lego dorks can be loved to the point of marriage, reader Clint Cox has sent his cool Lego wedding cake, in which a heroic Lego minifig assaults the castle to rescue the princess from the eeeveel dragon: More » -
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Lego Pop-Up Building Makes My Head Pop Up Too
Andrew—from The Brothers Brick—says that this Lego Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple leaves him speechless. I have to admit that I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the whole building popping up from a closed box. Magic. More » -
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The Lego House Is Dead. Long Live the Lego Kitchen!
I was sad that the Lego house was destroyed, but happy to know that its spirit lives in this Lego kitchen, a Scandinavian clusterfuck made with a Swedish IKEA kitchen island and more than 20,000 pieces of Danish Lego. More » -
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Elecom's Lego Style Earphones Sound Like a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
Available in a range of colors, these knock off Lego-inspired earbuds are perfect for those too lazy to pull out a glue-gun. The PlayBrick EHP-CIN40s include four different earbud sizes, and cost $44 imported from: [GeekStuff4U via Akihabara News] More » -
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Lego R2-D2 Minifig Mod Adds Sound and Light
Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder via FBTB via Brothers Brick] -
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Knitted Lego Minifig Will Replace My Teddy Bear
Oh Lego Minifig, you were perfect in your plastic symmetry and Mona Lisa smile before. But now that you've been knitted, I just want to hug you. Unfortunately, you can't buy this right away. You'll have to do it yourself: More » -
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Lego Star Wars Flash Memory Keyrings
The Force is so strong in these Star Wars Lego Minifig flash memory keyrings that it can actually give Lego Yoda a three-stud stiffy. That's a D17 in real world penis sizes. A lot, all these I like: More » -
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Cycling PSA Gets the Point Across With a Little Lego Ultraviolence
As a cyclist, I can appreciate the message being put forth in this Biking Rules PSA. As a Lego lover, I can't help but smile at the cuteness inherent in the violent auto accident portrayed at the end. More » -
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Lego House Gets Destroyed—You Can Cry Now
Total sadness. It finally happened and James May's beautiful Lego House met its destiny. It has been destroyed. See the results in the following gallery and cry. More » -
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Lego House May Face Very Real Wrecking Ball In 24 Hours
No doubt you were impressed by the two story Lego house built by Top Gear's James May and 1000 volunteers. Unfortunately, the pictures may be all that's left unless they can find a buyer in the next 24 hours. More » -
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Lego Baseplate Shirt May Be the Dorkiest Shirt Ever Made
Now, I can admit a fondness for Lego. They're probably the greatest toy ever made. But wearing a Lego construction on your chest? That might be a bit much. More » -
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DIY Swivelling Lego iPhone Dock Fulfills Our Weekend Lego Quota
This is a pretty simple construction that actually doesn't look as ridiculous as it sounds. The dock rotates, taking advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch's accelerometer and making use of allowing movie-viewing landscape mode. Not bad! [BricksInMyPocket via DVICE] -
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Lego Boba Fett Costume Owns All Star Wars Costumes to Date
If there's anything better than a home made Boba Fett costume, it has to be this Lego Boba Fett costume. This little kid will be one of the most popular and happiest kids next Halloween, as his face shows: More » -
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The Lego House Looks Beautiful From the Outside Too
James May's Lego house is looking great. You saw the interior already, but from the outside—sitting on the lustful landscape of the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey—it just looks absolutely bricktastic. More » -
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Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot
Lego Mindstorms put to nefarious deeds! While iPodLinux works with older iPods, newer models have encrypted firmware updates. That's why the Linux4nano team has designed the button-pressing Nanotron 3000 to help with a repetitive brute-force attack. More » -
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Lego Roboto Solves Sudoku
Swedish hacker Hans Andersson doesn't need a robot to solve sudokus puzzles. That's because he's a genius capable of making a robot that can solve sudoku puzzles. He used Lego Mindstorms to do it, and even the writing is beautiful: More » -
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Lego Universe First In-Game Screenshots
At last, the first screenshots of the Lego Universe game—Lego's massively multiplayer online role-playing game—have been released. Looking at the gallery, with its mix of Lego lands and the minifig creation screens, it feels quite nice: More » -
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Lego Rolling Cookie Cutter Makes Lego Brick Treats
I used to chew Lego all the time as a kid, so a cookie roller that imprints 2x2 Lego bricks sounds tasty. It's got a stainless steel handle and silicon grip, and can be picked up for $10. [Lego] More » -
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Take a Look At the House Made Completely of Lego Bricks
Top Gear's James May is working on building an entire house out of Lego bricks for another show, and it's really coming together. Hell, even the toilet is made of Lego in this place. More » -
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Big Baddass Lego Spock's Ship
Jason—and myself and every fanboy and fangirl—will love this, even while he hates Lego: A giant model of Spock's Ship from JJ Abrams Star Trek. Especially when every other Lego model is about Star Wars. Check the gallery. More » -
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Holy Crap, They're Making a Lego Movie!
Variety reports that Warner Brothers is developing a Lego movie that will be "a family comedy that will mix live action and animation." An "action adventure set in a Lego world." More » -
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7-inch Lego Dynamo Flashlight Stomps All Minifig Keychains
With white LED lights in each foot, these Minifig flashlights are all kinds of cool. Crank the not-so-Minifig version's arm to keep him lit, or pick up the battery-powered keychain to help get your keys in the door. More » -
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MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
A program called MoonBots will allow children to simulate the conditions of Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize—get rover to the moon, snap HD pics, kick ass—but turns up the quirkiness (and the cool factor) by incorporating Lego. More » -
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The Creepy Anatomy of a Lego Minifig: Now In 3D
Remember the fascinating and spooky anatomy of the Lego Minifig? Well, it gets even more fascinating and spookier when it's animated in 3D, which is precisely what the original designer—Jason Freeny—did. [Moist Production via The Brothers Brick] -
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Top Gear's James May to Construct Two-Story Lego House
Jesus, we know you love Lego something fierce, but are you willing to live in a completely Lego house, like Top Gear star James May? More » -
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1979: The Golden Age of Lego
1979 was the beginning of Lego as we know it today, the year when they took over the world, the year of the Galaxy Explorer. I photographed all the classic sets in my Lego trip. Here's the never-released gallery: More » -
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The Lego Girl Who Melted My Heart—and Will Melt Yours
I was born in 1972. Yes, I'm old. But that means I lived the Golden Age of Lego in 1979, and got to play with the coolest sets in history. I wasn't as cute as the Lego Alice-in-wonderland girl, though. More » -
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Apparently, the Secret of the Order of the Universe Is the Lego Brick
Little knew Democritus—the ancient greek philosopher, mathematician, and biologist who first postulated the atom in the 4th century BC—that his Great Order of the Universe would look like Godtfred Kirk Cristiansen' Patent #3,005,282 for Lego blocks. More » -
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Lego Matrix Zion's Last Stand Arrives Six Years Too Late, But It's Still Awesome
Here's a Lego diorama of one of the best scenes of Matrix Revolutions: Zion's last stand against the Matrix, humans in their mechas against merciless Sentinels. The close-up of the human resistance mecha begs for an official Lego version. More » -
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Nothing Says "I'm a Dork, Marry Me" Like a Giant Lego Wedding Ring
The next time I ask for marriage—bwhahahahahaha—I won't get on my knee at Claridge's Bar in London after a lot of wine and three Margaritas, like the last time. Next time, it's giant Lego ring time. More » -
#retromodo
Lego...Uh, Tyco Brick Phone Circa 1983
Lego may be all into consumer gadgets these days with their fancy cellphones and camcorders, but Tyco beat them to the punch in the 80's when they created this charmingly hideous landline phone. More » -
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Full-Size Lego Jesus Loves You and All Your Bricks Too
In Sweden they love Jesus so much that they got 30,000 bricks to build a full size 6-foot-tall Lego sculpture in toga-party costume. See what I did there? See? [Columbus Dispatch via Gearfuse] -
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Lego Now Making Gadgets, Including a Stop Motion Video Camera
No longer content to just have their notorious bricks serve as props, Lego are using their bricks for actual gadgets, including a digital camera, MP3 player, boombox, walkie-talkie and—my personal favorite-a stop motion video camera. More » -
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Lego DeLorean Is 100% Remote-Controlled Brick Awesomeness
Dear Lego: You better make this remote-controlled Lego DeLorean a real product or I will go back to Denmark and burn your factory down. Kindest regards, J. P.S. Don't forget to check the video after the jump. More »
