LEGO has officially announced the LEGO SMART Brick at their first-ever CES event. LEGO’s Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Julia Goldin, was on hand to reveal the SMART Brick which is the size of a 2×4 LEGO brick. The system consists of the brick, the tag, and the minifigure. There’s a chip inside the brick that is smaller than the LEGO stud. The platform that the SMART Bricks is used on is called Smart Play.

#LEGO announced #SMART Brick at #CES. Kids are digital natives. Wanted to bring tech into physical play. Stay true to the system open ended. Truly intuitive. Silicon chip smaller than one brick stud. pic.twitter.com/y29lAyOh3a

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The SMART tag and minifigure has codes inside that defines the behaviors. The SMART Brick has a tiny speaker as well lights and sounds and can also sense a SMART minifigure. The bricks can form a decentralized network so they can talk to each other when they’re close. In addition, the SMART Bricks have spatial awareness and know where they are stacked in a three dimensional space.

LEGO has announced the Smart Brick

A 2×4 brick that can create sounds, light up & detect what characters and builds it is being used in pic.twitter.com/OgpGuuyZIS

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The first theme that LEGO will be using the SMART Brick on is LEGO Star Wars. Three new sets have been revealed to use it.

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LEGO has just released a teaser on social media with something that has “a whole new dimension of play.” The announcement will be some time tomorrow, January 5. In the short clip, there are some minifigure hands and quotes from kids that says “it sounds like it’s actually talking.” The final clip shows some kind of coiling going on. Note that LEGO will be a CES 2026 (Consumer Electronics Show) for the first time so it’ll be something big and innovative and brand new for LEGO. What do you guys think it is?