One of the biggest problems facing today’s Lego builders is there are only so many surfaces that can accept bricks. Team Nimuno proposes flexible solution to this dilemma—rolls of colorful, cut-table, Lego compatible tape. 
 
 They’re calling it Nimuno Loops, and lots of Lego aficionados were talking about it during Toy Fair 2017 in New York last month. It’s pretty much rubber stripes with adhesive on one side and Lego-compatible studs on the other. Just thinking about the concept sets my eyes wandering about my office, wondering which un-Lego’d surfaces to Lego first. 
 
 Nimuno Loops is the brainchild of Anine Kirsten and Max Basler, a pair of professional industrial designers out of Cape Town. They’re into designing toys that encourage creativity and interacting with the physical world. Placing sticky Lego tape all over everything counts. 
 
 
 
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 I managed to run into Anine Kirsten at Toy Fair last month, and she passed a long a small Nimuno Loops sample, attached to her card. I had put it to random use. 
 
 Note that I placed it on a flat surface. I’m not sure how well Lego bricks will take to being placed on a steep curve. Popsicle man here didn’t like it too much, attempting to tumble from his studded-perch with the slightest bend. The more points of contact the better, I’d imagine. In the video below you can see some of the applications Nimuno has thought up. 
 
 If all goes well with Nimuno’s IndieGoGo campaign, Nimuno loops will be all over the place come July 2017. 

 If you thought the Lego set honoring the women of NASA was cool, you’re going to love this new Lego-friendly tape in development on Indiegogo. 
 
 Nimuno Loops is Lego-compatible adhesive tape that bends, curves and can be cut to any size. It makes any surface ― the wall, refrigerator, even your shoes ― totally Lego friendly. 
 
 It’s perfect for building off the side of your walls, wallpapering your bathroom, creating the coolest playroom ever or turning your lame non-Lego toys into Lego toys. You know what they say: Anything can be a Lego if you want it badly enough. At $11 for two 6.5-foot rolls, the dream is possible and relatively affordable. 
 
 Nimuno Loops’ Cape Town-based creators Anine Kirsten and Max Basler have raised almost $500,000 in funding on Indiegogo, about 5,812 percent of their original $8,000 goal. The duo “strive to make the world a better place by making things that are functional and beautiful,” they explained on the site. 

 Nimuno Loops is an adhesive tape that connects with LEGO blocks 
 
 LEGO can be used to do almost anything but there are still things these blocks that can can’t actually do. They’re not good at curves, for one, and corners also give it problems. It all boils down to the rigid and unyielding nature of these blocks. If only there were flexible LEGO pieces you can attach non-flexible LEGO pieces to. That’s exactly what the folks behind the Nimuno Loop adhesive tape thought so they went to Indiegogo to usher in what they hope will be the “LEGO of Things”. 
 
 It’s washi tape meets LEGO. The idea behind Nimuno Loops seems so simple that it’s surprising LEGO didn’t even think of it yet. Of course, we have the benefit of hindsight, but Nimuno itself is truly simple. It’s a rather thick adhesive tape that has the sticky stuff one side and a LEGO-compatible surface on the other. 
 
 The idea is that you stick the Nimuno Loop on surfaces where LEGO blocks don’t naturally cling too. Be it vertical surfaces like fridge doors or curved ones like that toy dinosaur’s back. And in case you didn’t like where you first placed the tape, you can simply take them off and put them elsewhere. 
 
 The tape themselves don’t offer any other new functionality but that very simplicity and open-ended nature is what gave birth to a hundred thousand ingenious LEGO projects. And Team Nimuno hopes this will be the case as well. 
 
 Of course, taking an idea and turning into an actual retail product is easier said than done. In addition to prototyping, you’ll also need to make the tooling for mass production. That’s why Team Nimuno jumped on Indiegogo to raise the funds needed to make things happen. And judging by how they were able to beat their funding goal in just 16 hours, it’s a very popular and in-demand product indeed. 
 
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 Lego fans are a creative bunch who know how to take those squared-off bricks and turn them into creations that expand outside the lines. The Nimuno Loops project on Indiegogo wants to put Lego blocks in all sorts of exciting places with a flexible Lego-compatible adhesive tape. 
 
 It's easy to see the allure of Nimuno Loops and their ability to connect your Lego pieces to walls, appliances, toys or even ceilings. The tape can be cut, bent, lifted up and repositioned. It will be interesting to see how well the adhesive holds up over time and through multiple sticks and re-sticks. 
 
 The Nimuno Loops project ships worldwide and has so far raised over $12,500, topping its $8,000 funding goal. 
 
 The entry-level pledge runs $11 (£9, AU$15) for two rolls of either red or blue tape for a total length of 6.5 feet (2 meters). The project has one month left to run and is estimated to ship in mid-2017. Keep in mind that not all crowdfunding projects deliver on time and as promised. 
 
 Nimuno Loops comes from professional industrial designers Anine Kirsten and Max Basler in Cape Town, South Africa. It is not an official Lego product. 
 
 Perhaps the best feature of the tape design is its soft and flexible nature. "Soft" is not usually a word that goes with any sort of Lego-related product. So go ahead and stick this tape to your floor. Take your shoes off. Step on it. Dance on it. Revel in its gentle caress. Just be careful once you attach the hard, plastic feet-biting bricks. 
 
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 March 15 (UPI) -- A New York group has met nearly 6,000 percent of its crowdfunding goal for a Lego-compatible tape designed to foster brick building on "virtually any surface." 
 
 The inventors of Nimuno Loops, a tape covered in bumps designed to be compatible with Lego bricks, sought $8,000 in funding on IndieGoGo, but as of Wednesday they had raised more than $460,000 with a month left in the campaign. 
 
 "Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you've just spent hours building," the inventors wrote. "You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr way." 
 
 The creators said the tape is "compatible with Lego, Mega Bloks, Kreo and most major toy building block systems." 
 
 "A whole new universe of possibilities when constructing with Nimuno Loops!" they wrote. 
 
 The group created a YouTube video showing Nimuno Loops in action. 

 It's finally happened. We have peaked as a species. This is it, this is the best we are ever going to do. Nothing will beat Lego tape. 
 
 "Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you've just spent hours building," the inventors, Nimuno, say on the product's Indiegogo page. 
 
 "You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr way." 
 
 Hrrrrnnnngggghhhhh. 
 
 The tape is compatible with Lego, Mega Bloks, Kreo and "most major toy building block systems". 
 
 A couple of two metre rolls will set you back around £10 (including shipping). 
 
 Gizmodo Australia is gobbling up the news in a different timezone, so check them out if you need another Giz fix.
– The latest hit of the crowdfunding world: a "Lego-compatible tape." Nimuno Loops is an adhesive tape covered in Lego-like bumps; according to its Indiegogo campaign, it works with not only Lego blocks but Mega Bloks, Kreo, and other building systems. It comes in rolls, so it can be cut to the size you need; it's flexible, so you can use it to build around corners; and, of course, it's tape, meaning you can turn any of your non-Lego toys into ... Lego toys. As UPI notes, the crowdfunding campaign went absolutely crazy: The creators set $8,000 as their goal; as of this writing Wednesday, the project had raised more than $600,000—and the campaign doesn't end for another month. The campaign has been getting a lot of press, with Nimuno Loops being called "genius," "a great idea," "a game-changer," and "so simple that it’s surprising LEGO didn’t even think of it yet." Perhaps the best part? As CNET notes, the tape is soft, unlike actual Legos—"so go ahead and stick this tape to your floor. Take your shoes off. Step on it. Dance on it. Revel in its gentle caress. Just be careful once you attach the hard, plastic feet-biting bricks." Eleven bucks will get you two rolls of tape, or for $34 two each of three colors—green, blue, and red. It also comes in grey. One of the only concerns raised by bloggers: How many times will the tape, which claims to be reusable, hold up under re-positioning?