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.
Via Engadget
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