Word: legos
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...January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. And if stacked on top of one another, the pieces would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon...
...Lego's legacy lies less in numbers than in its creative influence. The colorful bricks have littered playroom floors for generations of families. But they have also spurred ingenuity among children that few toys can claim before and since. The company has always emphasized the importance of free-form play, and Lego's popularity can be attributed to the amount of imagination children use to build with the bricks...
...McKinley Family, the Heller Family Foundation, TECH, Highland Capital Partners, and the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. I^3 plans to hold its launch party Saturday at the Queen’s Head Pub. To emphasize the multitrack and innovative nature of the challenge, the event will feature trivia, Lego-building, and “crazy idea” generation competitions...
Even some of the hottest toys this season have been around for decades - the most popular searches include "Barbie," "Lego" and my favorite childhood toy, "Hot Wheels." New-guard toys, like "Bratz," "American Girl" and "Transformers," round out the list. The biggest difference between modern toys and those of yore is perhaps the webification of the former. If the fine print on packages once read "batteries not included," get ready to see a new disclaimer on toys of the future: "social network included." The increasingly popular Ganz toy "Webkinz," for example, seems at first glance like a simple stuffed animal...
...years came to be known as "flexicurity," seemed to work. Unemployment fell; the economy grew. There's still much debate over how effective Denmark's job-retraining programs really are, but it's undeniable that they foster the kind of political environment in which union workers like Pedersen at Lego advocate outsourcing even as their company cuts jobs...