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Bloxes
- wmf 19y agoOh, so that's what those are. I saw some of those at SXSW. But $3 for a piece of cardboard?
- wallflower 19y agoBloxes, the offspring of famous designer (Macintosh) Jeff Raskin's son's mind, provides evidence for answering the question: Nature or Nurture? Answer: Both I'd so love to be able to build a fort with these in our brand-new open-plan workspace but I'd run into a wall of Nopes.
- dcurtis 19y agoI bet being called "the offspring of Jef Raskin" probably pisses off or severely annoys Aza Raskin. Call him by his name, yeah?
- redorb 19y agoI don't know why but I can amazon buying these running millions and selling them for $1 ...guess its just because they like their hand in everything
- astine 19y agoWhatever you are trying to accomplish, there's a cheaper way to do it. You can get used cubicles and furniture on Ebay and sound foam isn't all that pricey either. The chief attraction is that they seem like fun, but just wait till the novelty wears off. I just don't see the need to spend $60 dollars on something I could accomplish with a crate.
- rodomontade 19y agoI'm with you. I considered the possibility of getting a pack for my son. Then I had sticker shock. He'll have to just make due with empty paper and shoe boxes for his fort (a bloxes pack is available for $999?!).
- mrtron 19y agoMake a cardboard cutout press with your son in your garage using this layout or a similar one. The cutout press could be done relatively easily, and building that could be more fun than the bloxes :)
- johnrob 19y agoThey should give them away for free, but put ads on them. That's a better cardboard 2.0 business model.
- henning 19y agoThat might be misconstrued as sponsorship of what the boxes are used to build.
- angstrom 19y agoSo your'e saying my ExxonMobil, McDonald's, Coca-Cola swastika doesn't deserve advertisers? You may have a point.
- daniel-cussen 19y agoYeah, they do kind of look like swastikas... But it would be bigotry to generalize and say all shapes with radial symmetry and four sides are evil.
- mrtron 19y agoSwastikas and other similar designs are very common, especially with one Chinese group I think 'Hakka'? The Nazi's use of it in propaganda really is a tiny part of its history.
- anewaccountname 19y agoHe said "what the boxes are used to build", the original guy was talking about shapes you can make with the boxes. The replier was too: someone could stick a bunch of them together into a swastika.
- lyime 19y agoads are not the solution to everything.
- iamwil 19y agoIt'd be much more interesting if you could build machines, rather than just structures with these, esp machines that can assemble bloxes, to make another machine.
- ebukys 19y agoI think I'd give in just for the sake of having something fun to do... I'm not playing with blocks, Mommy, I'm building a workspace!
- pchristensen 19y agoAza and the Humanized guys have done some pretty impressive and diverse stuff - Enso, Songza, Bloxes, not to mention getting hired by Mozilla.
- chaostheory 19y agoI wish they were made from post-consumer recycled paper...
- jws 19y agoThat strikes me as a nice fuel/air mixture suspended in space. I would not make anything large out of them in an interior space unless they have been fire rated. They seem about as safe as using cheap egg crate foam on the walls of a night club.
- rms 19y agoLooks like Jef did it first... http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/slides/san-diego-arts/index.html http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/slides/san-diego-...
- TFrancis 19y agoJef Raskin is one of my heroes.
- jsmcgd 19y agoHas anything fairly ambitious been made with bloxes like a house or a bridge?