LEGO Brickumentary ~ Sharing a True Toy Story!

A LEGO Brickumentary coming soon; trailer here!

Roominate ~ Building Toys for Creative Girls!

I just heard MIT Professor Emeritus Rod Brooks of iRobot and now Rethink Robotics fame speaking this morning about his venture experiences. He was particularly proud of his MIT alumna daughter's company which is making Roominate -- building toys encouraging all girls to be creative artists, architects, engineers, and visionaries! Alice Brooks is clearly a chip off the old block;-)

"The Roominate line is designed by Alice and Bettina -- two engineers out of Caltech, MIT, and Stanford on a mission to get more girls interested in engineering. They believe that early exposure through toys will inspire the next generation of female technology innovators. They designed Roominate to get young girls to have fun with STEM, while building hands-on skills and confidence."

GoldieBlox ~ Girls Construction Book & Kit...

Check out GoldieBlox girls construction toys! Plus see earlier Kickstarter campaign.

Lego Bridge Launcher ~ DIY Stilzkin EXT3 ;-)

Nice Lego Technic build project, the Stilzkin EXT3 Bridge Launcher!

Toa Mata Band ~ Giuseppe Acito's Lego Bionicles

MissC spots Giuseppe Acito's Lego Bionicle Toa Mata Band!

Live Action Toy Story ~ Pauley & Perrotta @ Play!

Whoa! Obsessive filmmakers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta's live action Toy Story!

ATOMS ~ Seamless Toys for Kids on Kickstarter!

Check out MIT Media Lab alumco Seamless Toys and their ATOMS project on Kickstarter!

"ATOMS are a system of plug-n-play sensors, motors and logic blocks for kids & adults to make things that do amazing things"

Little Bits ~ MIT Alumna Ayah Bdeir CNN's Next!

Excellent to see MIT Media Lab alumna Ayah Bdeir and her kids play newco Little Bits spotlit by CNN's What's Next!

Nice F.U.C.K. ~ Free Universal Construction Kit!

F.U.C.K. is simply brilliant! The Free Universal Construction Kit -- adapters for interoperability twixt top construction toys...

"F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab are pleased to present the Free Universal Construction Kit: a matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten* popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems -- enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs, and ultimately, more creative opportunities for kids. As with other grassroots interoperability remedies, the Free Universal Construction Kit implements proprietary protocols in order to provide a public service unmet -- or unmeetable -- by corporate interests."

Little Devices ~ Medical Toys & DIY RX @ MIT

Very compelling to see the work of the MIT Little Devices group, and in particular their action matrix, a portfolio which...

"...maps onto 4 different global disease burden domains using a growing toolkit of technologies and approaches"

Also check out this CNN piece on their "Medical Toys" efforts...