LEGO Is Introducing Its Own 'SMART Bricks' - Here's What We Know

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

LEGO opens preorders for 3 new Star Wars Smart Brick sets, ahead of March launch date

LEGO has just opened pre-orders for its brand-new Smart Play sets, marking a major evolution in how LEGO builds interact with ...
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Lego’s Smart Bricks are here: Are we ready to change how we play?

Classic Lego meets responsive play as smart bricks add sound and light — raising new questions about how imagination fits ...
Electronic Design

LEGO Smart Play Platform Brings Imagination to Life

LEGO's new SMART Play System blends embedded electronics, sensors, and wireless tech into the familiar classic bricks, ...
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Lego's brainy brick makes an X-Wing sound like an X-Wing, and no app is needed to fly it

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LEGO Smart Bricks Are the Smallest Big Deal Right Now. Here’s Where to Buy Them

Here’s everything you need to know about LEGO Smart Bricks, including where to buy them online, their build release date, and how LEGO Smart Play works ...
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LEGO Icons Retro Radio Set Unveiled With Sound Brick and Phone Features

Fans of LEGO sets like the Typewriter (21327) and Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera (21345) have another nostalgic device to add to their collection. Today LEGO unveiled the LEGO Icons Retro Radio set ...
Wired

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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CES 2026: Lego's Smart Brick adds sound and light to your builds—but it's not AI

Lego unveiled its revolutionary 2x4 smart brick at CES 2026, a significant leap since the Minifigure. Packed with sensors and speakers, it brings sets to life with interactive sound and light effects.
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Lego responds to criticism of Smart Bricks: Staying true to our core promise

Following Lego's concept of building blocks with electronics and sensors to generate motion-dependent light and sound effects, there were mixed reactions. Experts argued that the new Smart Bricks ...
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Lego introduces ‘smart bricks’ with sound and light effects to new Star Wars sets

But some argue new ‘Smart Play’ technology undermines the Danish construction toy’s gift for harnessing a child’s own imagination It may be time to retire that hyperspace zoom noise you perfected ...
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Lego's smart brick unveiled with light, sound interaction

The Danish global toy company LEGO unveiled at CES 2026 a ‘Smart Brick (LEGO parts)’ that reacts with light and sound based on children’s movements and manipulation methods and can transform into ...