Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the minifigs.
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Lego's smart brick can light up like a lightsaber—with whoosh sounds to match

New sensor-packed Smart Bricks introduced at CES add color, sound, and interactivity to classic Lego builds, debuting with Star Wars sets this spring.

LEGO takes play to a whole new level with groundbreaking innovation

The LEGO Group has introduced LEGO SMART Play, a revolutionary platform that brings LEGO creations to life with responsive bricks, minifigures and tags, all without screens.

Lego's brainy brick makes an X-Wing sound like an X-Wing, and no app is needed to fly it

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. It’s joined by an accelerometer and a copper coil, and Lego has created its own Play Engine and Neighbor Position Measurement (NPM) system.
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