Progress doesn't have to mean complete reinvention.

Lego seems to be moving on from traditional toys to smart versions of its building blocks, as announced at CES 2026. Here's ...

The Smart Brick looks very similar to a normal 2x4 Lego brick, but it contains a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip which is smaller than one of the studs on the brick itself.

The development of the Smart Play System began in 2017, when Lego researchers studied how children want to play. They found that kids were looking for three things in a toy: the ability to play with ...

A yellow LEGO duck made of LEGO blocks had a black torso with a transparent material attached. When the duck was shaken 2-3 times with the LEGO block inserted, the transparent part turned the same ...

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 ...

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