Little Coloured Bricks

In the Summer 2009, Digital Blue announced its licensing agreement with the Lego Group to manufacture electronic gears inspired by the little coloured bricks.

Thanks to their enthusiasm and ultimate love for the Danish blocks, Digital Blue was able to produce digital cameras, walkie talkies, USB drives and MP3 players that were built through the use of Lego elements. This is a rather inspiring project especially for those who truly love the bricks.

Other than these portable products, the group also introduced the Lego boom box and alarm clock radio to its patrons.

Today, Lego enthusiasts from the world over can get these products at real affordable prices ($19.99 to $59.99).

More Information About Digital Blue

Digital Blue has different product lines and this includes Lego. This brand was built mainly for children since they also carry gadgets inspired by Disney characters, WWE, Bakugan and even Batman.

Where To Buy

If you are in Australia, you can buy Digital Blue products at your local Kmart, Target, Toys R Us, Toyworld, and TGA Unlimited.

For Canadians, you can buy at National Focus, Best Buy, Black’s Photo, Costco, Henry’s, La Senza, Sears Canada, Staples, Zellers, and Toys R Us. You can also buy online through Toys R Us and Best Buy.

Lego enthusiasts from France should say Merci Beaucoup to Lexibook S.A. because they are the only store that has Digital Blue products in the said country.

Lego enthusiasts in Germany can buy these products from Worlein, Toys R Us and Baur.

The Italians can go to Consumer Electronics while those in Mexico can visit Next Technologies, Radio Shack, Sanborn’s and Walmart.

If you are in the Netherlands, you can go to Bart Smit or IPC.

Spanish and Portuguese Lego enthusiasts can choose from many stores. The following have Digital Blue products: Auchland, Corte Ingles, HyperCor, IMC Spain, Mediemarkt, Modelo Continente Hiperm, Rubies Portugal, and Toys R Us.

For those in the United Kingdom, you can get Digital Blue products at Amazon, Harrods, Argos, Interactive Learning, Asda, Littlewoods, Recreation PLC, Bentalls, Boots, Smyths, Debenhams, Disney Stores, TAG Learning, Toys R US, Woolworths, World Stores, Youngsters, Hamleys, Fenwicks and DSGI.

Those who are residents of the United States can buy these products online through Best Buy, Brandsmart, Frys, Compuvisor, Costco, Disney Shopping, Etoys, Kmrt, Kohl’s.com, Ritz Camera, Salestorm, Sears, Target, Toyrgroove, Toys R Us, Walgreens, and Walmart. You can also buy them in retail stores such as Academy Sports, JC Penney, Meijer and Staples.

If you love taking photos, you will surely love these Lego cameras but before we go ahead and introduce them to you, we would like to show you a picture of a photographer with his video camera.

Isn’t this the cutest thing? This is something that would remind all of the cameramen in Hollywood how cool their jobs can be but whether you only videotape weddings and other special events, this Lego creation is still a great way to remind yourself how cool it is to be a cameraman.

Now to the cameras. Many of us are fond of gadgets especially with those digital cameras. Whether you love your micro four thirds or your regular pocket size digital camera, if you are a Lego enthusiast, you will also love these cameras.

Sure these aren’t the usual Canon or Nikon but did you know that the cameras in the picture above actually work? Yes, and you can buy them for $49.99. This was released by Digital Blue but we are not sure where you can buy them. If you are interested in these cameras from the said manufacturer, it would be best to search for Digital Blue. These were released in the summer of 2009 -not too long ago.

According to digital camera lovers, these are not very powerful cameras and they only have 128MB of memory. This is just fine though especially if you are a Lego enthusiast. If you are interested in this DigiBlue camera, it only boasts 3 megapixels -not too bad if you are just buying it for your Lego collection.

This is an official product release of Digital Blue and the Lego Group and it sure is something cool and a great gift for kids too!

Now who said Lego cameras are limited to pinhole cameras only? Lego cameras have evolved ladies and gentlemen and this is one cool evolution.

Aside from Lego toys, Lego videogames, and Lego wear, the Lego Group also offers consultant services called Lego Serious Play through Lego Serious Play Certified Partners. The goal of this service is to foster creative thinking by using Lego blocks to create models and representations of each person’s identity in an organization along with his or her experiences. People who participate in this kind of team building solve hypothetical scenes by 3D Lego constructions. This is where the name serious play was derived from.

Last year, Lego Serious Play was developed even further so that it can also be applied in schools. Trained teachers may now use this method with students aged six years old and above. This educational version has the same objectives as the corporate one: to promote teamwork and creative thinking, paying more attention to making a course of action that allows more in-depth reflection and practical conversations.

Lego Serious Play has been described as a fervent and sensible method for building belief not only to oneself but among colleagues as well. The approach of Lego Serious Play is based on a research that says a hands-on and minds-on knowledge results in a more immersed and profound understanding of one’s environment and the potential that environment has. It has also been reported that those who participate in this method of team building gain better and more effective communication skills, the ability to more enthusiastically use their imaginations, and an improved confidence and dedication and more insightful approach to their work.

The concept for Lego Serious Play was created in the past decade as a way to give managers an easier method for describing, creating, and challenging their business views. The foundation of this method merges constructivism ideas with constructionsim, complicated theories on systems of adaptation, and other theories made relevant to organization and management contexts.

What is it I hear you ask? A hospital? Factory? Offices? Fire station?

Keep guessing, its a computer. Yeah I was pretty shocked too.

In an age when computers are getting smaller and smaller in physical size and composition, this one takes up a lot of space. Inside there is a HP Pavilion. Yes, it is a fully functional, working, operational computer.

As you can see all the components fit pretty snugly into the ‘case’, if we can even call it a case, a work of art is perhaps more apt. When shown on the table it actually looks a bit smaller but regardless of its size it is a computer mod that any Lego fan would want to have.

Above you can see were the various cables fit in. It is a pretty old computer, hence the PS/2 Keyboard connector and it runs on Windows 98 but the goal of this project, i’m sure, was not to display a supercomputer that can play Crysis flawlessly, rather it is to demonstrate how Lego, an activity that many of us sadly confine to our childhood, can be used in practical ways. Indeed it shows how Lego can not just be practical but fun, arty and innovative too when it comes to technology.

Many concerns have been raised in regard to overheating. A valid concern I suppose when you are using plastic blocks as your case. However this doesn’t seem to be a problem in this instance. The owner/designer says:

“This thing stays on 24/7, mostly as an email machine, and the windows above the processor fan are tilted about 30 degrees so there’s plenty of ventilation.”

So it seems that there are little, if any, drawbacks to modding you computer with Lego. What it gives you a chance to do it spice up the rather dull and conformist computer cases that we have came to know; a Lego case will make your computer stand out from the crowd and it only cost $80 in Lego. Be a bit different, give it a go.