


He doesn’t run or cycle as much as he should. NOTE this DOES allow IN APP purchases ADDITIONAL LEGO apps (free) that require purchase of a product to play: LEGO Fusion Building Set LEGO Fusion Battle. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his family, watching sport and drinking beer. Dan has also given talks on upcoming tech trends.ĭan is completely platform agnostic, equally at home on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and uses all four on a regular basis. As a tech pundit, Dan has also been quizzed and quoted for a wide variety places including BBC World Service and News Online, Sky News Swipe, The Sun, BBC Radios 4 and 5Live and has also been interviewed on Channel 4 News, ITV News and Sky News. He has also written a book, 1000 Life Hacks, featuring lifestyle tips and tricks across various topics including tech, parenting, fashion, home and DIY. Dan has also written for a huge amount of magazines and websites including The Big Issue, MacFormat, Maximum PC, Official PlayStation magazine and Web User. He was also part of the team that launched TechRadar where he rose to deputy editor. Based near Bath, UK, Dan stepped up to Pocket-lint from T3.com where he relaunched the UK lifestyle and technology site after a spell launching and editing Lifehacker UK. He’s a regular at tech shows like CES, Mobile World Congress (MWC) and IFA as well as other launches and events. It will even tell you which bricks are missing.Dan Grabham is the former associate editor at Pocket-lint working across features, news and reviews and has extensive experience writing about computing, mobile and internet topics. It will scan each individual piece, identify it, and then figure out which of Lego’s many sets you can build from what you have on hand. The process is very straightforward: simply lay out your bricks, point your camera at the unruly heap, and let Brickit do all the work for you. But what if you could scan all of the random pieces and be told exactly what you could make with them? This was the dream for the team behind Brickit, a new app that is inspiring kids and adults alike to build new creations from their old Lego. With the instruction manuals long gone, building more than a simple house feels like a daunting prospect. These days, the elaborate sets that you can build are composed of thousands of pieces that come in all shapes and sizes and it's easy to be overwhelmed by what’s on offer.įor many of us however, Lego is a big box containing a jumble of random bricks, each belonging to structures that were dismantled long ago. Over time, Lego has moved further and further away from the simple sets of bricks that it became known for. Almost a century later, it remains one of the most popular kids toys across the world and it still takes up huge chunks of the toy section in many stores. Next year, Lego will celebrate 90 years since it was founded in a Danish carpentry workshop back in 1932.
