Kitty

Kitty is the drummer for New York City band Mindless Self Indulgence. One such masterpiece solves a Rubik's Cube through the use of Lego motors and cameras, a task that many humans cannot accomplish. The character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men series, who is also known as Shadowcat. Large mosaics, fully functional padlocks and pendulum clocks, a harpsichord and an inkjet printer (built by Google co-founder Larry Page while at the University of Michigan) have been constructed from Lego pieces. Kitty Kelley is an American author, journalist and biographer. Some sculptures use hundreds of thousands of pieces and weigh tens of kilograms. Kitty Genovese was a New York City woman stabbed to death in 1964 among three dozen witnesses in a frequently studied criminal case. A cult following of people who have used Lego pieces to make sculptures, very large mosaics and complex machines has developed.

It starred Paulette Goddard in the title role. The Lego Group itself has developed a form of business consultancy fostering creative thinking, called Lego Serious Play, in which team members build metaphors of their organisational experiences using Lego bricks, and work through imaginary scenarios using the visual device of the Lego constructions and by exploring possibilities in a 'serious' form of 'play'. Kitty is a 1945 film based on a book by Rosamond Marshall about the rise of a London guttersnipe to society lady. Lego bricks today are used for purposes beyond children's play. Kitty is a 1927 novel by Warwick Deeping which was filmed and became the first British talkie in 1929. As of year end 2005, there are 25 LEGO Brand Retail stores in the USA, a number of stores in Europe, and a franchised LEGO store in Abu Dhabi. Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman is a 1940 film. There are also several Lego retail stores, including at Downtown Disney in both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts and in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Kitty Foreman is the fictional mother of the Foreman household in the American television show That '70s Show, played by Debra Jo Rupp. Lego Group operates several Legoland amusement parks in Europe and California. Kitty Carlisle Hart is an American singer, actress, and spokeswoman for the arts, perhaps most famous for her presence as a panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth. It also allows advanced participants an opportunity to modify the Lego Mindstorms platform, adding their own sensors and actuators, as well as other mechanical, electrical, electronic and software related systems. Kitty is the name that Anne Frank give to her diary. Lego Mindstorms provides primary and secondary school aged participants of RoboCup Junior an easy and intuitive introduction to robotics. Kitty litter is the sand-like material used to fill litter boxes. The international RoboCup Junior autonomous soccer competition involves extensive use of Lego Mindstorms equipment which is often pushed to its limits.

Hello Kitty is a fictional anthropomorphic cat and the basis of an international franchise. A related competition is FIRST Lego League for elementary and middle schools. "Here kitty kitty" is a common phrase taught to a cat, asking it to come to the caller. The earliest, and likely the largest, is Botball, a national US middle- and high-school competition stemming from the MIT 6270 lego robotics tournament. Many owners even use the term with named cats. There are several competitions which use Lego bricks and the RCX, among other microcontrollers, for robotics. Kitty is frequently used as the name of a cat whose real name is unknown, or one without a name. These programmable bricks are sold under the name Lego Mindstorms.

There are even special bricks, like the LEGO RCX that can be programmed with a PC to perform very complicated and useful tasks. There are also motors, gears, lights, sensors, and cameras available to be used with Lego components. LEGO recently announced the procurement of worldwide toy rights with the cable TV channel Nickelodeon for building sets with themes from two hit TV shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: The Last Airbender which will be available Summer of 2006. Sets containing new pieces are released frequently.

Since it began producing plastic bricks, the Lego Group has released thousands of play sets themed around space, robots, pirates, vikings, medieval castles, dinosaurs, cities, suburbia, holiday locations, wild west, the Arctic, boats, racing cars, trains, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Bionicle, and more. Annual production of Lego bricks averages approximately 20 billion (2 × 10¹⁰) per year, or about 600 pieces per second. Brick decorations and packaging is done at plants in Denmark, Switzerland, United States, South Korea and the Czech Republic. Moulding is done at one of two plants in Denmark and Switzerland.

Manufacturing of Lego bricks occurs at a number of locations around the world. It is thanks to this care in manufacturing that the Lego Group has maintained such a high degree of quality over the decades; this is one of the main reasons that pieces manufactured over 40 years ago still interlock neatly with pieces manufactured today. According to the Lego Group, its moulding processes are so accurate that only 18 bricks out of every million fail to meet its stringent standards. Worn-out moulds are encased in the foundations of buildings to prevent their falling into competitors' hands.

Precision-machined, small-capacity moulds are used, and human inspectors meticulously check the output of the moulds, to eliminate significant variations in colour or thickness. Since 1963, Lego pieces are manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS. In order for pieces to have just the right "clutch power", Lego elements are manufactured within a tolerance of 2 micrometres (0.00008 in). They cannot be too easy to pull apart, or the result will be Lego creations that are unstable; they cannot be too difficult to pull apart, since the disassembly of one creation in order to build another is part of the Lego appeal.

When snapped together, pieces must have just the right amount of "clutch power"; they must stay together until pulled apart. Bricks, beams, axles, minifigures, and all other elements in the Lego system are manufactured to an exacting degree of tolerance. Retail Lego sets for young children are compatible with those made for teenagers. Lego pieces from 1963 still interlock with pieces made in 2006, despite radical changes in shape and design over the years.

Since their introduction in 1949, Lego pieces of all varieties have been, first and foremost, part of a system. Nevertheless, such corporate admonitions are frequently ignored as corporate intervention in the use of language, and the word lego is commonly used not only as a noun to refer to Lego bricks but also as a generic term referring to any kind of interlocking toy brick. The company asserts that to protect its brand name, the word Lego must always be used as an adjective, as in "LEGO set," "LEGO products," "LEGO universe," and so forth. "Lego" is officially written in all uppercase letters.

Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies.

Lego catalogues in the 1970s and 1980s contained a note that read:. The Lego Group's name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many use the words "Lego" (collectively) or "Legos" to refer to the bricks themselves, and even to any plastic bricks resembling Lego bricks, although the Lego Group discourages this as dilution of their trademark. Over the years many more Lego sets, series, and pieces were created, with many innovative improvements and additions, culminating in the colourful versatile building toys that we know today. It wasn't until 1958 that the modern-day brick design was developed, and it took another five years to find exactly the right material for it.

Godtfred saw the immense potential in Lego bricks to become a system for creative play, but the bricks still had some problems from a technical standpoint: their "locking" ability was limited, and they were not very versatile. It was his conversation with an overseas buyer that struck the idea of a toy system. By 1954, Christiansen's son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group. Many of the Lego Group's shipments were returned, following poor sales; it was thought that plastic toys could never replace wooden ones.

The use of plastic for toy manufacture was not highly regarded by retailers and consumers of the time. The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they couldn't be pulled apart. They had several round "studs" on top, and a hollow rectangular bottom. A few years later, in 1949, Lego began producing similar bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks." These bricks, manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another; however, these plastic bricks could be "locked" together.

Hilary Harry Fisher Page, a child psychologist. These "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks" were designed and patented in the UK by Mr. In 1947, Ole Kirk and his son Godtfred obtained samples of interlocking plastic bricks produced by the company Kiddicraft. It should be noted, however, that the original, Greek verb "legein" actually has the meaning "put together".

The Lego Group claims that "Lego" means "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin, though this is a rather liberal translation; the more accepted and widely used application of the word is "I read". The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well". Ole Kirk started creating wooden toys in 1932, but it wasn't until 1949 that the famous plastic Lego brick was created. The Lego Group had humble beginnings in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a poor carpenter from Billund, Denmark.

. The sets are produced by the Lego Group, a privately-held company based in Denmark. High production quality and careful attention to detail ensures that Lego pieces can fit together in myriad ways, which is one of the main reasons for the toy's success. Cars, planes, trains, buildings, castles, sculptures, ships, spaceships, and even working robots are just a few of the many things that can be made with Lego bricks.

Lego is a line of toys featuring colourful plastic bricks, gears, minifigures (also called minifigs or mini-figs), and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable. The number 102,981,504 (four more than that figure) is the number of six-piece towers (of a height of six). The figure of 102,981,500 is often given for six pieces, but it is incorrect. Six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same colour can be put together in 915,103,765 ways, and just three bricks of the same colour offer 1,560 combinations.

"Legot" (or "leegot"), plural form of "lego" (or "leego") is also used as a Finnish slang term for human teeth, because of the rectangular shape of the teeth.