The Lego brick just got its biggest upgrade yet — and it comes to life first with Star Wars

Lego’s iconic brick is getting its biggest upgrade since the modern design was unveiled in 1958: meet the Lego Smart Brick.

LEGO Reinvents the Brick With Built-In Tech Starting With Star Wars

LEGO has revealed a new interactive system called LEGO SMART Play, which adds built-in electronics to physical LEGO sets to make them react with sounds, lights, and movement. The system was shown this week at CES 2026 and represents one of LEGO’s biggest changes to traditional play in decades.
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CES 2026: LEGO’s debuts Smart Brick, adds sound and sensors to classic play

LEGO has unveiled a new Smart Brick at CES 2026, marking its biggest shift toward connected play in decades. The brick uses sensors, sound, and wireless tech to react to real-world play, starting with Star Wars-themed sets launching in March 2026.
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AI App Scans and Creates Builds for Loose LEGO Bricks

Brick heads out there who have a huge stash of random LEGO pieces—probably in some sort of large, plastic container in the closet—have a new creativity aid at their disposal; at least if they have an iPhone, anyway. It’s an app called Brickit, and it ...
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Upcoming LEGO NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Can Be Controlled With the AR App

LEGO and NASA have a long history of incredible and educative builds, from space rockets, Apollo 11 Lunar Lander, to the International Space Station. You can find anything you would like on the shelves that are either connected to NASA or space-related stuff.
Kotaku

The LEGO Ninjago Movie App

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The LEGO Ninjago Movie App The LEGO Ninjago Movie App is a fun, creative role-playing game for 9-12-year-young ninja-in-training. Players are assigned important missions by Master Wu, and must rescue and team up ...
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Got A Box Of Lego Bricks? This Amazing App Scans Them And Suggests New Builds

If your kids have a box of jumbled Lego bricks in their bedroom, get it out - because an amazing new app will give them tons of new ideas of what to build with them. The Brickit app is the best use of the iPhone’s AR technology I’ve seen yet.
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Lego should snap up this rapid-fire brick-finding iOS app

Lego has worked extremely closely with Apple over the years, experimenting with unreleased iOS tech and demoing it onstage at launch events like WWDC; this has included some pretty heavy tinkering on the augmented reality ARKit platform that they’ve ...
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Lego's New Smart Brick Can Light Up Like a TIE Fighter and Whoosh Like a Lightsaber

Lego made its first appearance at CES 2026 to show off its Smart Brick, which can change colors, make sound effects, and sense other nearby Legos.
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