Dubbed the LEGO Brick, this distinctive fan-made creation comes with a wi-fi charging mat alongside a devoted platform to dock equipment like lamps, audio system, and battery indicators, or construct out tiny dioramas with your personal LEGO bricks… which leads me to a fairly bizarre revelation and opinion – LEGO ought to completely enter the devices and smart-things trade. The LEGO Bricks is the primary nice instance of why…
Designer: İbrahim Can Erdinçmer
The LEGO Brick is a enjoyable, quirky wi-fi charger that builds on LEGO’s promise of countless modularity and customizability, however right here’s the catch. Tech nerds and geeks love modularity and customizability too. We like the thought of constructing out our personal desktops, selecting what elements to place in, when to improve, or swapping out issues once we need. It’s precisely why we cherished the PhoneBloks idea a lot (I might completely see LEGO’s DNA in that idea). In essence, the LEGO Brick sits completely on the intersection between being a bricknerd and a technerd’s favourite desktop accent. It juices your smartphone, watch, or TWS earbuds, whereas offering a neat square-shaped space for docking modules or displaying your constructing abilities. Coils below the brick space provide energy to the modules too, permitting them to run with none additional cables/ports.
The LEGO Brick takes the ‘boring’ out of ‘boring day job’.
What actually units the LEGO Brick other than the ocean of already-existing wi-fi chargers, most significantly, is its playful enchantment. The brick doesn’t simply allow you to personalize your workspace, it permits you to add a way of enjoyable and whimsy to it. You may construct out scenes out of your favourite motion pictures, create bonsai bushes, or simply construct out tiny architectural constructions. That square-shaped space is your canvas of creativity and enjoyable, supplying you with the power to both use it for productiveness (due to the modules) or playtime. It helps present stress reduction when work will get a bit of too daunting and demanding, and even serves as the proper fidget toy whereas ideating. In any case, Ed Sheeran wrote the lyrics for his smash-hit Form Of You whereas taking part in with LEGO bricks.
The LEGO Brick isn’t simply all enjoyable, although. It comes with its personal modules that add a layer of productiveness and options to the charging expertise. The modules are designed to attract energy straight from the Brick platform, powering on the minute they’re plugged into the signature studded board. The three modules which might be displayed listed here are the cuboidal lamp, the minimalist Bluetooth speaker, and a nifty battery indicator show. Simply off the highest of my heads, different modules may be issues like a plug-in charger for the Apple Watch, chargers for AA batteries, a tabletop clock, an OLED photograph body, and many others.
Though completely conceptual, the LEGO Brick reveals completely why LEGO is well-positioned to be such a smart-things behemoth. Perhaps it might require a bit of collaboration (IKEA collaborated with Teenage Engineering and Sonos to develop their very own sensible residence merchandise), however it might propel LEGO into yet one more space of our lives the place a bit of sense of enjoyable and frolic would go a great distance. I’ve mentioned earlier than that LEGO bricks aren’t toys, however are quite constructing blocks for unleashing true creativity. Add some tech to that and we actually have a brand new space for LEGO to develop exponentially in!
