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Minecraft LEGO set confirmed, cult gamers rejoice

Chris Burns, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

The cult classic video game still undergoing development and exploding in popularity on both the web browser and mobile platforms has been approved in LEGO form. There's a brand new set coming through officially through the LEGO project known as CUUSOO - this program being a socially judged creation platform for LEGO fans who want to see their projects made into real LEGO-carried sets for stores. With the Minecraft set having reached 10,000 votes, LEGO will officially be making a set! Read The Full Story

Canada reaches space with Lego

Chris Burns, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Two students from Toronto have made a bit leap into the final frontier for Lego-kind, sending a Canadian-flag wielding Lego man into space with just a helium balloon and four cameras to record the whole event. Seventeen-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad simply attached a helium balloon to four cameras and a Lego strip connected to a Lego man and his cool tiny Canada flag and let them fly. Once the whole rig descended back to Earth, the collection was made and the videos were viewed. When the videos were loaded and the photos they took were reviewed, the teens started screaming. Read The Full Story

Physicist builds Large Hadron Collider out of Lego

Shane McGlaun, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [4]

I have seen plenty of photos of the Large Hadron Collider or LHC over the years and it is a very impressive piece of machinery. Apparently, a physicist named Sascha Mehlhase had some time not spent doing actual work to recreate the LHC using Lego bricks. It's a very accurate representation as well. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 branded harddrive a maniacal deal

Chris Burns, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [4]

And what are those Star Wars characters doing there in the picture? Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen - the cost and the characters have to do with one another, but they certainly don't seem to be equalling out. First, you may have seen this harddrive before - the same device comes in packs with Gears of War 3 and Modern Warfare 3, amongst others. Those of you who want to get the harddrive by itself will have to pay a penny that's much more pretty than you could have ever imagined: $130 USD. Not quite the droids we were looking for. Read The Full Story

LEGO Trump International Hotel and Tower uses 65,000 pieces

Shane McGlaun, Sep 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

LEGO is cool and one of the geekier building materials out there. I like to see people build giant things out of the little bricks and marvel at the geek factor and time it took them to complete. The hardest thing I ever made form LEGO was a Technica racecar, this 10-foot tall replica of the Trump International Hotel and Tower isn’t something I'd want to mess with. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 32 2011

Shane McGlaun, Aug 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's that time again; the SlashGear Week in Review is back. One of my favorite stories from last week was the LEGO DIY R2D2 robot. The robot was remote controlled and even the little dome turned making for a very cool project. The teen LulzSec hacker that was arrested in Britain recently was found to have details on hundreds of thousands of people on his computer. The exact number according to the police was 750,000 different personal records on people. Read The Full Story

Lego Minifigs to Accompany Juno Space Probe Mission

Chris Burns, Aug 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Launching this Friday will be NASA's Atlas V rocket containing not only its most important piece of equipment, the Juno space probe, but three little Lego minifigs as well. Included in this mission will be Lego likenesses of Italian astronomer Galileo, Roman god Jupiter, and Jupiter's sister Juno, these toys soon to be the furthest flung toys in history. The rocket will be heading to Jupiter on a five-year trip that will be a joint mission between NASA and Lego, each of the special minifigs affixed to the spacecraft for a (hopefully) safe journey all the way. Read The Full Story

LEGO R2D2 robot is remote controlled and packed with awesome

Shane McGlaun, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

LEGO + Star Wars + Remote control = Awesome. A dude going by the name Ickelpete has apparently been working on the bot of awesome you see here since last year. The dude has work in progress pictures on his flickr page that go back to last summer showing him at work on various parts of this little droid. The finished product appears to be life-size. Read The Full Story

Geek makes DIY key mounting thingy out of LEGO

Shane McGlaun, Jul 20th 2011 Discuss [2]

I have a very short memory so it's good that I spend my days flitting from one subject to another for work. I do tend to lose my wallet a few times a day though. Mostly it's because the wife likes to put stuff on top of it. I think she is trying to drive me insane so she can have me committed and have full access to the remote for watching all those chick flicks she likes. I don’t go anywhere other the than the store and home so I don’t really have the chance to lose my keys. Read The Full Story

Concrete Building Blocks look like LEGO

Shane McGlaun, Jul 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

I like LEGO blocks and I really like to see the creations that geeks get up to making when they have plenty of blocks at their disposal. The thing that all the LEGO blocks I have seen in the past have in common is that they are made from plastic. A designer on Etsy has some cool LEGO blocks that aren’t made from plastic even thought they are sized like your typical block. Read The Full Story

KRE-O construction Transformer sets hit stores

Shane McGlaun, Jul 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

Hasbro is the toy company that was behind some of the toys that shaped my youth. Specifically, I had all the Transformers that my parents would let me have. I often broke them trying to transform them from robot to vehicle or whatever and they were a lot of fun. I also had loads of LEGO as a kid and spent more than a few days grounded thanks to the little blocks and my tendency to leave them laying around for my parents to step on. Read The Full Story

LEGO-licious Star Wars Sandcrawler used 10,000 bricks

Shane McGlaun, Jun 3rd 2011 Discuss [3]

I mentioned a cool LEGO kit yesterday that is the largest Technic set LEGO has ever offered at about 2,000 pieces. That LEGO kit is nothing compared to this DIY LEGO construct that Marshal Banana spent nine months building. That is a long time for the birthing process of a 3-foot long 10,000-piece Star Wars Sandcrawler. I would have never finished something this epic. The crawler has remote control steering and is incredibly detailed. Read The Full Story