LEGO: The Ultimate Apple Watch Accessory

Redditor cooleyandy (nice name, hits close to home) made a pretty cool discovery last week when he built his own Apple Watch dock out of some spare LEGO bricks. (Technically, all LEGO bricks are spare LEGO bricks, but you get my meaning.) As industrious and budget-conscious as that assuredly is, the truly big discovery here is that — by some miracle of cross-generational, cosmically-aligned, blessed-by-the-gods-of-design congruence — it turns out that the hands on your basic LEGO minifigure fit perfectly around Apple Watch’s power cable. This, of course, means that you can easily build any custom LEGO scene into an Apple Watch charging cradle, and you won’t have to wait for any of the umpteen Kickstarter stands to kickstart their deliveries.

Of course, since the Apple Watch cable seems to be the same diameter as the cables that ship with iPhone and iPad, you’ll be able to get a whole lot more creative with your device charging solutions. You can reenact scenes from Gulliver’s Travels by your bedside or make your iPhone into the obelisk from 2001 (which would be pretty apt, actually) or even build a little movie theater on your nightstand, with seats and crowds and all. And this isn’t limited to the bedroom — feel free to spruce up your scattered desktop workspace with cable management that tells a story.

I’m a big fan of DIY, or at least telling people to DIY. But when it comes to DIM, I’m less inclined to cooperate — particularly if there aren’t any instructions. That’s why I think it’d be especially awesome if LEGO had some of its architects put together a retail series of electronics-oriented accessory designs. Because while all of the above sounds good in theory, I don’t think I’ve got the chops (or the patience) to put together a really effective or attractive Apple Watch stand from scratch. But I’d totally pick up a LEGO Space Gray Apple Watch stand (complete with Spaceman Cable Butler) the next time I’m at Target.

And I think lots of other people would, too.