Lego’s new Smart Play system, announced at CES earlier this week, is an embrace of digital technology the likes of which we haven’t seen from the company before. And while the demonstration it gave on Monday was a good start towards showing just what Lego’s Smart Brick is capable of, there’s no substitute for seeing it in person. Fortunately, an extended demo answered a lot of my questions on how the system will work once kids and adults get their hands on the first round of sets with Smart Play.As I detailed yesterday, the Smart Play system contains three elements. The Smart Brick is packed with technology like proximity sensors, an accelerometer, color sensors and a speaker, all powered by a tiny chip. It’s crucial to know that each Smart Brick is identical at this point; to re [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
Were you a Lego-set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
Whether you're looking for a gift for yourself or the kids in your life, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the year's best time to score a Lego set or two. Lego is always expensive, but duri [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. (Also, everyt [...]
Lego sets make incredible gifts, at least according to our 10-year-old selves — and as people who review gadgets instead of getting real jobs, we're very in touch with our inner children. And t [...]
Lego is cutting prices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I'm a lifelong Lego lover, and my younger self would have squealed at some of the deals I'm seeing — as I'm betting is true f [...]
Lego sets make incredible gifts, at least according to our 12-year-old selves — and as people who review software instead of getting real jobs, we're very in touch with our inner children aroun [...]