LEGO's new SMART Play System blends embedded electronics, sensors, and wireless tech into the familiar classic bricks, ...
Lego packs an electronics platform with 3D magnetic tracking, multi-radio communication, and inductive charging into a brick. Patents reveal how.
Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital technology that we haven’t seen from the company before. While the demo Lego gave at its press conference ...
Classic Lego meets responsive play as smart bricks add sound and light — raising new questions about how imagination fits ...
The new brick will make play more interactive for kids and families. Sets with the new brick will release in March, and preorders start in January.
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In the Star Wars sets launching with Smart Play in March, the Emperor minifig will play the Imperial March when you sit him on this throne. Ships can blast at each other with laser noises, and ...
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker face off in one of Lego's new Smart Play sets (Nathan Ingraham for Engadget) Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital ...