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Bring LEGO to Work with Brik Book for MacBook

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Want to show your workmates your playful side? Brik Book, which is featured in our store, Walyou Deals, is a DIY MacBook case that enables you to customize Apple’s notebook in a unique manner.

The Brik Case started as a Kickstarter project back in March. Back then, Brik Book, the Palo Alto manufacturer of this unique MacBook case, wanted to raise $30,000 so that their product makes it to mass production, but the backers were so excited about the prospect of dressing their MacBooks in unique outfits that they pledged more than 3 times the funding goal, thus ensuring Brik Case’s future. Our store, Walyou Deals, now brings you this case at a discounted price, so that you can put your creativity to the test on the back of your MacBook.

Whereas most people prefer to decorate their MacBooks with stickers of their favorite movies, TV shows or musicians, geeks would rather make their own, unique patterns using LEGO or K’NEX building blocks. From that point of view, the Brik Book is an impressive new take on MacBook cases that’s fit not only for grown-ups who’d like to impress their coworkers, but also for kids who don’t get too much screen time.

Playing with bricks during break could represent a great distraction from the daily problems. While some might look at this as a way to take their mind off work, I’d like to think of it as a manner of seeing thing from a different perspective. I don’t think it’s that far fetched to say that an object that encourages creativity could lead to people finding initially unexpected solutions to a problem.

On top of that, you could give your Mac a more professional look by attaching a pen holder and a business-card holder.

More importantly, the Brik Book represents a great way of turning something common in work environments (the MacBook) into something unique. In an office room where everyone uses a Mac, the Brik Book could help you make yours instantly recognizable from across the room.

While Brik Book makes Brik Cases for several different models of MacBook, the one featured on Walyou Deals only fits the 13-inch MacBook Air. In terms of compatibility with building blocks, you have a bit more freedom in this department, as you can use LEGO, Mega Bloks, PixelBlocks, KRE-O & K’NEX.

If you think that the whole world should be built out of LEGO bricks, and would like to start with the back of your MacBook, then head over to Walyou Deals, where you will soon be able to buy the Brik Case for Macbook. On the manufacturer’s website, the Brik Book sells for $49.99 (with free shipping for orders exceeding $75), but here you can get it for $44.99, including free shipping to continental US. Deliveries are expected to take place between January 2 and 5.

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Opening the Book(Book) on Twelve South: between the covers of a Mac-exclusive accessory maker

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The year is 2009. In history books, it'll widely be recognized as the year that most of America -- heck, the world -- would prefer to forget. Job after job was lost, bank after bank fell, and humanity as we knew it plunged into "the worst recession since the Great Depression." It's also the year that Palm attempted a comeback with webOS, and as it turns out, the year that yet another accessory company was born. While such an occurrence may be forgettable on a macro scale, economic researchers and lovers of technology alike have reason to take notice -- and, indeed, ask questions. So, that's exactly what I did.

Beyond growing a technology startup in a me-too field during the worst economy that I've personally been a part of, it's also not often that I find compelling consumer electronics companies far outside of New York City and San Francisco. Twelve South just so happens to be located in a nondescript nook in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina -- just a beautiful trip over the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge from historic Charleston. Three years after its founding, the company now fittingly counts a dozen employees on its roster, and despite entering a market flooded with iAccessory after iAccessory, it has somehow managed to grab its own slice of an increasingly large niche. As with all good success stories, this particular outfit has plenty of twists, turns and run-ins with Lady Luck to tell about; for those interested in seeing how the "stay small" mantra is keeping Twelve South firmly focused on the future ahead, take a peek beyond the break.

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