Arnon Rosan is the founder of EverBlock, an adult version of Legos, polypropylene blocks up to a foot long that lock together and stack with raised lugs much like Legos, as wired tells MHProNews. He currently makes them in 14 colors and three sizes with the largest one weighing two pounds, and offers instructions on how to make a variety of items including furniture and modular buildings.

The key is to stagger them like bricks, so one block covers the seam of two underneath it. The blocks have a channel to allow a power cable, reinforcing wooden dowels or LED strips to illuminate or stabilize larger structures. It is a very efficient modular system to have all one size blocks.

Could it comprise the next emergency living structure following a disaster? Several pallets of blocks lowered by a helicopter into an area with limited road access could provide quickly assembled modular housing for refugees. ##

(Photo credit: wired/EverBlock)

Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.