Forget all the Lego Mindstorm NXT development (highly-recommended Link) and Lego “design your own product” stories circulating for now and take a look at what average people are doing with just simple, non-robotic blocks over on eclectic-niche website Etsy (Link). Like cyberpunk author William Gibson said,”the street finds its own uses for things”… especially, it seems, simple little plastic blocks.

Lesson learned: lowest common denominator products (i.e. simple, basic and easily manipulated by hack-minded consumers) are inherently more capable of going viral in the marketplace due to they’re ability to mutate; just like a real virus. I never thought of Lego as a biomimetic product, but I don’t doubt that it is.

via Wonderland

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