Matthew Shifrin is on a mission to make Legos accessible for blind people through his non-profit Bricks for the Blind.

Construction waste is finding new life in the form of eco-friendly building blocks used for low-cost RDP housing. This innovation is part of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation’s ...

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LEGO has subtly rebranded itself over the past decade. It is not only for children; it is also for adult hobbyists who enjoy the intricacy of multi-thousand piece sets and have the disposable income ...

Founded by engineers from Perth, Australia, Mobile Crisis Construction is a nonprofit creating machines that turn debris – cement, glass, and local raw materials — into interlocking blocks, just like ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday donated 500 brick-making machines and nine motorcycles to South Sudan’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to aid ...

A Chinese research team has developed a "lunar brick-making machine" that can produce bricks from moon soil, bringing the sci-fi vision of "building houses on the moon with local materials" closer to ...

In the early 2000s, LEGO, one of the world’s most beloved toy brands, was quietly falling apart. The Danish toy giant that invented the iconic interlocking brick in 1958 found itself drowning in debt, ...

This milestone was marked on 11 April 2025 by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which partnered with Use-It Waste Beneficiation NPC and Key Bricks to demonstrate the prototype ...

Lego opened a $1 billion factory in Vietnam on April 9 that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy. The factory in the ...

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Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2023, millions of people have been displaced from their homes. With buildings destroyed, and an estimated 3.6 million people still internally displaced from their ...