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LEGO Green Toy Story Mini-Fig Soldiers – Prepare to Want

by Jay Garrett on March 9, 2010

You’ve probably seen Toy Story right?

Even if you’ve somehow managed to avoid the computer generated animated flick you may have played with those cheap green plastic soldiers – if you happen to be a certain cousin of mine you probably also set fire to them at some point too!

Well, the genii at LEGO have only gone and released mini-fig versions of the little green GI’s!

They even come complete with removable stands. There’s even a 3″ long Jeep and a stretcher.

The £9.99 pack contains:

  • 4 Army Men minifigures, jeep and stretcher
  • Soldiers’ jeep equipped with spare tyre

Go here and buy at least one pack now!

That’s an order soldier!! Or is that a soldier order?………..

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New BUGBase Brings Self-Build Mobile to Pre and Droid Smartphone Levels

by Jay Garrett on February 15, 2010

Every hardware tweaker will know about BUGLabs‘ build-a-phone, kinda like a Modu self-build, but now it’s had a refresh.

BUG 2.0 is now faster and Android ready.

The latest BUGBase, which is essentially the brain and nerve center, has been upgraded to TI’s OMAP 3 platform.

Before I get “huh?” from you – this actually brings the base up to spec with the likes of Motorola’s Droid and the Palm Pre.

Because it now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with top-end smartphones it’s only reasonable that it should support Android – thankfully it does. This also gives the new BUGBase tastey access to the Android App Market.

Worry not gadget builders! Although the BUGBase is new and sparkly it will still play nice with all those other bits you’ve been using to create your frankengadgets with – whether they be WI-Fi radios, GPS receivers, speakers or the BUGMotion accelerometer.

As yet there’s no price or release date for the new BUGbase.

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Sony Help Forest Guard to Become Reality – Wildfire

October 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony Europe is helping a young team in its bid to stop the devasting effects of wildfires.
The team of six, whose ‘Forest Guard’ idea won the recent Climate Actions contest, were invited to Sony’s headquarters in Basingstoke to work with Sony engineers on making their idea come alive for the first time.
The team [...]

Brick Construction Shirt – LEGO Interactive Clothing

September 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen just about everything LEGO related in comes Think Geek with a genius T-sirt!
The aptly named “Brick Construction Shirt” has a removable black breastplate that will take you blocks of choice – LEGO, PixelBlocks, Mega Bloks and K’NEX Bricks.
From there it’s up to you. Just start building!
Go from basic [...]

LEGO Fender Princeton Reverb – Precision Build

May 18, 2009 Click to read more →
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Now, this is up there as a possible ultimate LEGO build! 
Guitarist, Dave Chatterson, decided that he’d go and build an exact replica of a Princeton Reverb amp with LEGO!
Talk about detail!

LEGO cab, grille, handle, fittings, speaker, knobs, switches, jacks, tube chart, reverb tank, power cord and footswitch.
BOSH!

You’d better slide over to Fender.com for more pics and an interview [...]

TwistTogether Lamp – LEGO Cool Style Lighting

May 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Looking for something to match your Audio Cubes?
Howsabout the TwistTogether lamp?
It’s comprised of four LED blocks that can be rearranged in a myriad of ways.
The TwistTogether Lamp is powered through a single block and any additional blocks light up when connected with a simple twist.
Each block is illuminated with LEDs which provide a safe, low-voltage [...]

The Future’s So Bright – Gotta Wear LEGO Shades!

May 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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How cool?
These Lego sunglasses let you customise your sunnies and are the culmination of the French optics company, Lynx Optique’s, style and the awesomeness of LEGO.
The glasses are complete with the iconic LEGO nubbins on the sides and thus allow the wearer to pimp them out by attaching LEGO pieces.
A row of mini-figs? Windows? A feat of engineering from [...]

LEGO Mini Me Business Cards

March 2, 2009 Click to read more →

Ah, in the heady world of business networking there is soooooooo much room for humour.
LEGO thinks so and now the plastic brick company provides employees with little LEGO mini-fig business “cards”.
Each figure is modeled to represent the employee and takes into consideration gender, hair colour, glasses, etc.
The details are worn by the figure on a [...]

Lego Click With Alcatel to Produce a Mobile Phone

February 11, 2009 Click to read more →

This, by all accounts, is a real Alcatel mobile phone that is also a fully licensed Lego product.
Fantastic!
Unfortunately though, you can’t get out your Lego and add useful things like wheels, a cockpit, robot arms or the colour sensors from the latest Mindstorms NXT 2.0.
It does, however, have interchangeable faceplates.
I’m thinking this is a great [...]

LEGO Brings Out Mindstorms NXT 2.0

January 28, 2009 Click to read more →

Lego has announced that there is to be an update to its rather fabby Lego Mindstorms set this year – a mere trio of years since the last version graced robot clubs around the world.
So, what does NXT 2.0 bring?
Well, there’s the Colour sensor that can be used to let the robot you build [...]

Lego Digital Box Puts The Kit in 3D In Store

January 24, 2009 Click to read more →

Put yourself into this predicament.
You’ve narrowed your search down to 2 Lego kits but the pictures on the boxes aren’t helping.
You wish you could see the finished article in glorious 3D to help you decide.
Now there’s Lego’s Digital Box to help you out as it shows a 3D model right there in the store.
If a [...]

LEGO Makes For A Warmer Winter

October 16, 2008 Click to read more →

I’ve been noticing that it’s starting to get dark earlier and earlier and that even I, someone who’s lived in Canada and the frozen north of England, need a jacket these days.
Yup, winter is on its way.  Thoughts of keeping warm spring to mind.
Want a rather bricky radiator?
How’s about a LEGO radiator?
It’s colourful, funky and you [...]

LunaBlocks from Lunatics – Lego Furniture

September 10, 2008 Click to read more →

Building your own furniture has become fun!
Nope – I’m not being sponsored by Ikea, B&Q or MFI!!
Regress (possibly) and remember the joys of Lego.  Now imagine larger blocks.
You now have Lunablocks.
They’re giant perspex Lego-esque bricks that can be used to build pretty much anything -  a TV stand/coffee table is a good starting point and probably the easiest [...]

Lego Universe – Multiplayer Online Brick Building

May 2, 2008 Click to read more →

If the totally awesome Lego Chess-Set is not enough all you Lego fans will soon be able to create your own virtual Lego Universe brick by brick.
Next year will see the launch of a multiplayer online game called Lego Universe, in which players will be able to create online Lego versions of themselves and interact with each [...]

Happy 50th Lego!!

January 28, 2008 Click to read more →