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Check out this giant working Rolls Royce jet engine model made from Lego

Rolls Royce created a monstrosity with an all Lego working replica of one of their jet engines. The Lego jet engine is 4’9” long and 6’5” feet wide weighing in at a hefty 676 lbs. The engine is a perfect replica of the Rolls Royce Trent 1000, which is used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. According to Rolls Royce, it’s the world’s first all Lego working jet engine. The Lego engine took four people eight weeks to build and complete with over 152,000 Lego pieces.

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10 really cool Lego builds

Lego builds can be fun, but for some, they take it to another level beyond what many of us can dream up. Some of these are mind boggling, for example the Super NES replica, pictured inset which holds an actual SNES cartridge, or this Porshe 918 Spyder replica pictured below.

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Scientists use Lego to aid bone research

“Without your bones, you would be a pile of goo lying on the floor.” I love that quote, which comes from a research scientist at Cambridge University. Scientists at Cambridge are looking for ways to use bone as an artificial material for things like implants, or other uses such as building material.

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Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon stop motion video

If you are a Star Wars fan, I think you’ll dig this. It’s a stop motion video of the Millennium Falcon built entirely out of Legos. The entire model, put together by Francisco Prieto, was made out of 5,344 Lego pieces and took one year to complete the model and 670 hours of rendering to create the video. Talk about dedication.

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A working robotic arm made completely out of Lego

Check out this very neat functional prosthetic arm model made completely out of legos. As you can see in the video, it has hand and finger movements and can mimic a full range of motions of a human hand and arm. The robot lego arm was built by Max Shephard and he said that his goal was to build a bio-mimetic arm putting his “bio-medical engineering major to good use.” I would say he did a good job at that.

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Video of ancient computer built out of Lego

This is in every aspect of the word by all means impressive.  I am constantly amazed at how genius and technologically skilled some people are in this world and how their brains must fire off synapses so much faster than my own :P

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