Abstract: Touch sensors are ubiquitous in daily life. As a type of touch sensor, touch buttons now face the diverse design requirements for electrode patterns. There is no method for evaluating the ...

Lego bricks come in a bunch of shapes and sizes, but they’re getting a big technical upgrade in 2026 thanks to news announced at CES this year. Meet the Lego Smart Brick, a standard-sized 2 x 4 brick ...

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 ...

Lego has unveiled its first-ever Smart Bricks. The company calls its most revolutionary innovation in nearly 50 years. The iconic colourful bricks that have fuelled generations of imagination are ...

Craftee turns everything he touches into Lego bricks in Minecraft. 550-pound bear finally evicted from California home after bizarre strategy ends monthlong ordeal The hole in Trump’s rationale for ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he developed a machine-learning algorithm to analyse the digitized captions of one ...

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.

Apple has historically resisted the idea of touchscreen MacBooks, arguing that laptop PCs with the feature are unwieldy and far from ergonomic. But recent reports suggest Apple has changed its tune, ...

At the heart of LEGO SMART Play is the LEGO SMART Brick, a tiny computer that fits inside a traditional 2x4 brick. Inside the brick is a custom-made ASIC chip measuring approximately 4.1mm in diameter ...

LEGO has just debuted its greatest innovation in 50 years, since the introduction of the LEGO Minifigure in 1978, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It represents a radical shift to ...