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That 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.

It's OK, I have a firewall.

I didn't even think about that. Have you had some bad experiences or do you just enjoy burning things? :)

This is likely a very flammable structure, nice catch.

Whatever 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.

I'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?!).

Make 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 :)

They should give them away for free, but put ads on them. That's a better cardboard 2.0 business model.

That might be misconstrued as sponsorship of what the boxes are used to build.

So your'e saying my ExxonMobil, McDonald's, Coca-Cola swastika doesn't deserve advertisers? You may have a point.

Yeah, 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.

Swastikas 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.

He 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.

ads are not the solution to everything.

Looks like Jef did it first...

http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/slides/san-diego-...

Jef Raskin is one of my heroes.

Bloxes, 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.

I bet being called "the offspring of Jef Raskin" probably pisses off or severely annoys Aza Raskin.

Call him by his name, yeah?

Oh, so that's what those are. I saw some of those at SXSW.

But $3 for a piece of cardboard?

Buy one box, a pen and a box cutter.....the cost goes down with every trip to no frills for free replacement cardboard :D

But that would be... cardboard piracy.

True, but it would give me a better explanation for owning a large cardboard pirate ship than I currently have.

Specially cut, though.

It'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.

Aza and the Humanized guys have done some pretty impressive and diverse stuff - Enso, Songza, Bloxes, not to mention getting hired by Mozilla.

I 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!

Has anything fairly ambitious been made with bloxes like a house or a bridge?

I wish they were made from post-consumer recycled paper...

I 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

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