Gallery: Watch: This Brilliant Lego Calendar Syncs With Google
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Vitamins, a design studio in London, built themselves a Lego calendar. *Photo: Vitamins*
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It offers a tactile way to keep track of the months ahead--and it syncs with Google Calendar via smartphone snapshots. *Photo: Vitamins*
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"It was quite an iterative process, trying to find the right balance between physical and digital," says Adrian Westaway, the studio's director of technology. *Photo: Vitamins*
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"On one side you needed something big and clear that humans would like to use and look at--and on the other you needed something that was computer-readable and ordered." Lego, he says, offered the perfect compromise: bright, fun blocks that were fun for humans and consistent enough for computers. *Photo: Vitamins*
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"The white strips in the design and the color choice is directly based on the best results we got from various smartphone cameras," Westaway says. "The little figures are for us humans, to make us smile, sadly the computer just ignores them!" *Photo: Vitamins*
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A key they hide away for keeping track of which blocks correspond to which clients. *Photo: Vitamins*
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This is how the smartphone snapshot-processing software sees the board. *Photo: Vitamins*
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And another view. *Photo: Vitamins*
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And another: the chaos before the well-organized calm! *Photo: Vitamins*
