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 ...

LEGO's new SMART Play System blends embedded electronics, sensors, and wireless tech into the familiar classic bricks, ...

At first glance, LEGO’s Smart Brick looks like any standard LEGO brick — but inside is a tiny custom ASIC chip smaller than a single LEGO stud along with sensors, LED lights, a miniature speaker, and ...

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 ...

When a small square ‘Smart Brick’ was combined with LEGO blocks assembled in the shape of a car, a ‘vroom’ sound of starting ...

Lego packs an electronics platform with 3D magnetic tracking, multi-radio communication, and inductive charging into a brick. Patents reveal how.

Love it or hate it, Lego's Smart Brick has elicited strong reactions from its adult fanbase as they process the analog ...

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 ...