 Crickets were developed at MIT Media Lab, and were launched commercially in Montreal in 2006.Playful Invention Company (PICO), co-founded by Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman and Paula Bonta, was formed with financial support from Lego Group, the Danish construction toy manufacturer, to commercialize the toy., PICO also markets a toy for use with the Scratch programming language, another MIT Media Lab development.