After I wrote about some LEGO sets I have loved over the years, I was contacted by Bjarne P. Tveskov, a Danish concept designer who created some of my favorite Space sets in the ’80s. Turns out he’s a fellow happy mutant! He was kind enough to tell us about what it was like to design sets for LEGO. He got the job when he was 17, the lucky duck.
In addition, we’ve recently looked at winners of the Greener Gadgets design competition (a DIY power usage meter took the top spot), make-up for high-def actors, two nice looking new phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson, a picture frame with an embedded cellphone for spying, a wearable contraption that simulates what it’s like to be an ant, a special-edition black Viewmaster, magic gas additive pills and the jerk who hawks them, a certain TiVo employee’s love of World of Warcraft, winners of the Plagiarius Awards for counterfeit gadgets, rechargeable LED safety lights from Energizer, an accordion synthesizer, a complete set of furniture from a single crate, the current state of prosthetics, and an in-depth review of a box of colored pencils. And grab-bag links, retro gewgaws, and deals.
Come for the gadgets, stay for goading me into arguing with you in the comments!