Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital technology that we haven’t seen from the company before. While the demo Lego gave at its press conference on Monday was a good start to showing what Smart Bricks are capable of,

LEGO is pushing beyond its traditional building blocks with a new screen-free technology designed to make children’s creations react, move and respond during play.

The tech-packed toys include an array of sensors capable of detecting other nearby building blocks, lighting up and playing music.