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Another facet of the bionic future is taking shape in a second-floor laboratory at the University of Louvain in Brussels. There Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, is treated to visions of red, blue and yellow dots arranged in neat little rows like the tops of Lego building blocks. Glimpses of Lego bricks are hardly worth getting excited about, but Marie is enthralled - because she's blind...
...radio signals to the stimulator, which converts these signals into electrical impulses and sends them along Marie's optic nerve. The optic nerve ferries the signals to Marie's visual cortex, where they are reassembled into an image: in this case, a collection of red, blue and yellow Lego bricks. "The device is an integral part of my body," Marie says. "I don't feel it. I completely ignore it." Marie is one of only about a dozen people in the world who have had visual implants that could potentially restore their sight...
...kids are asking for these vintage favorites, parents and grandparents are also driving up demand and not just out of nostalgia. In a recessionary economy, parents who can't spring for a $300 XBox may still satisfy their kids with a less pricey updated classic, say, a Harry Potter Lego set. Cheap, classic board games are getting a boost too. Diane Quaiver of Villa Park, Ill., says her 18-year-old daughter lately spends more time at home with her boyfriend and other friends. "They play UNO, Monopoly," she says. "They haven't gone out as much...
...right,” says the packaging, “his mouth could suddenly snap closed and chomp your fingers! If you’re brave enough to face this challenge and many others, a whole world of adventure awaits you.” Additionally, the Lego Hogwarts Castle and Diagon Alley are impressive, as are the clever candy stocking-stuffers, such as Snape’s Potions Candy and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans (right out of the book). Educational options include Spells and Potions (a chemistry set) and Teleidoscope Construction (a cross between a kaleidoscope...
...shipped out last year. Meanwhile, Chinese factories have been cranking out containers for $2,500 each, making it cheaper for shippers to buy new ones in Asia than to ship the empties back. So colorful 40-ft. by 8-ft. by 10-ft. boxes are piling up like giant Lego blocks at U.S. waterfronts from Newark, N.J., above, to Norfolk, Va., to Los Angeles. People living near the port in L.A. want the city to build a berm that will block their view of the unsightly containers. Pleasure boaters are complaining too; the estimated 10,000 containers lost...