The toy company said that the SMART Play system encourages social play among kids, with interactive elements that respond to player movements and builds. Julia Goldin, LEGO's chief product and marketing officer, emphasized that this innovation marks a significant evolution in LEGO's history.

Put a Star Wars tag near the brick and suddenly your X-Wing's engines purr. These include classics like Luke's X-Wing, a TIE Fighter, and the Throne Room Duel — all with interactive engine sounds, lightsaber hums, ambient effects, and even theme music moments as you move pieces around.

Lego unveiled its most ambitious product in nearly 50 years at CES 2026. It's called the Smart Brick — a 2x4 Lego brick with an entire computer inside. The brick contains light and sound capabilities, motion sensors, a microphone, and Bluetooth mesh networking that lets multiple bricks communicate with each other.

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.

Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building air-powered engines. After first building a simple air-powered piston

You have the opportunity to buy a inline-3 or inline-4 version of the amazing Lego Mindstorm V8 engine Nicjasno created. They announced the coming of a V6 model after ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related to cars. You can also, on occasion, catch him playing ...

Little Lego engines with actual pistons and crankshafts that turn and move are one of the true simple joys of human life in the modern era. So, it just stands to reason that the best way to maximize that joy is to rev the crap out of these Lego engines ...

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new cut out of one of their Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, at the Farnborough International Airshow this week. But rather than being made of steel and electronics, the Trent 1000 engine is made completely of Lego. 152,455 Lego ...