Every parent knows that you aren’t supposed to let small children play with LEGO blocks because they’re a potential choking hazard. But Japanese designer Akihiro Mizuuchi has done something completely brilliant and made LEGOs that you can actually eat.

The Chocolate Legos are sturdy enough that you can really build with them. They have the same structure as real LEGO bricks so they “snap” together and hold their positions. We probably wouldn’t try combining them with actual LEGO bricks, though.

Mizuuchi produced a variety of sizes and colors (and, we assume, flavors) of these delightfully inventive snacks/toys, then built a tiny army of chocolate LEGO teddy bears that probably caused him both literal and figurative sugar shock.

Unfortunately for everyone else in the world, the designer isn’t planning to market his creation. But we’re thinking if LEGO could hook up with one of those make-your-own-food kits marketed toward kids, they could easily make something like this available to as a DIY project.

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We all know at least one person who can’t resist chewing on their pen or pencil. Usually it’s a highly annoying habit that results in a lot of ugly, chewed-up writing implements all over the place. This edible pen concept from Dave Hakkens will let those pen munchers chew away with no fear of catching a mouthful of plastic and bitter ink.

The pen is made of one piece of candy with indents that make it easy to chew off one piece at a time. According to the designer, the pen doesn’t get sticky and doesn’t melt in your hand.

The majority of the pen is only candy, but down near the tip is a small well of edible ink. The only part of the pen that isn’t edible is the very small hard bit at the tip. When you finish off the candy, you can either throw this bit away or use it to hold an ink refill in a new candy pen.

The candy used to make the pen is rather like that used in candy necklaces. The first prototype Hakkens made was peppermint flavored, but he has plans to produce the pens in lots of different flavors. There is no word yet on if or when the candy pens will be available for purchase, but for the sake of nervous office workers everywhere we hope it’s soon.

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