LEGO is exploring 3D printing as a potential way for fans to produce their own custom bricks, as a way to stave off all-virtual world building games like Minecraft. The plastic brick company – which ...

Lego customers may one day be able to make their own bricks and mini-figures using 3-D printers. The global toy giant is looking hard at ways to adapt to a digital economy in which toymakers are ...

On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

Lego is toying with 3D printing for fans who want to create specialist playsets with one-off characters. It could mean families designing Lego mini-me characters of mum, dad and the kids or using 3D ...

Some 3D printer projects may seem like great ideas, but realistically won't be of much use to you. Take pause before wasting ...

Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Lego is thriving over its competitors, and 3D printing may have just crossed a critical threshold. Here’s how they’re related. When I was in middle school, a friend ...

Predicting the future of cutting edge technology is popular among pundits because prognosticating is easy – no license required – and there’s very little chance of ever being held accountable (unless ...