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Computers
Apple’s ‘Brick’ is a Revolutionary Aluminium Manufacturing Process?
10:12AM Jason Chen | 9to5 Mac has gone on record as saying that the rumoured Apple Brick isn’t a product, but a manufacturing process that can make high quality aluminium shells. The “brick” part comes in because the supposed technique carves these MacBook casings with lasers and high pressure water jets out of bricks of aluminium, making for a seamless and screwless design. Whether or not it’s true is still left to be seen, but one benefit would mean that there would be no need to bend metal (which creates weak spots). Again, no idea if this is legit, but 9 to 5 Mac has a fairly decent track record, which they conveniently point out at the end of their post. [9 to 5 Mac] More »
Gadgets
Rumour Roundup: Apple Brick
3:40AM Mark Wilson | What is the Apple Brick? It’s a rumour that started over at 9 to 5 Mac. A trusted source told the site that the (also rumoured) October 14th Apple Event would be “all about the Brick.” The fun sort of spiralled from there, with plenty of guesses of just what the Brick could be… More »
Design
LEDs Make Glass Bricks Cool Again
11:30AM Sean Fallon | Remember those glass blocks you would see in homes way back in the day? That crap was pretty tacky, but you still see designers utilising them from time to time even today. A new design for these bricks has emerged among the winners of the recent Red Dot Design Awards that uses LEDs to give the impression of changing light patterns stretching into an infinite space. Not much information exists beyond that, but I’m sure you can imagine how cool a room would look decked out in these. Then again, it could be tacker than the originals—just in a 21st century kind of way. [Red Dot Awards via DVICE] More »
Games
Gameboy Bricks Make Floors, Bowser Castles
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | 30,000 years from now, aliens will discover these Gameboy bricks and decide that humans’ ancestors originally had buttons and directional pads on their bellies. Which, in the case of some of the people I know, it’s true. More »
Gadgets
LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities
11:30PM Jesus Diaz | The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58 p.m. today, January 28, 2008. This timeline shows these 50 years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND themed sets to TECHNIC and MINDSTORMS NXT, as well as all kinds of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world. Jump to zoom in and tell us what was your first LEGO in the comments. More »
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