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Well, that’s exactly what Brick My World offers. This innovative app is here to make custom Lego creation fun and accessible for everyone, whether you’re a seasoned builder or just getting started. By using advanced artificial intelligence and mobile ...
LEGO has revealed a new interactive system called LEGO SMART Play, which adds built-in electronics to physical LEGO sets to make them react with sounds, lights, and movement. The system was shown this week at CES 2026 and represents one of LEGO’s biggest changes to traditional play in decades.
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.
Brick heads out there who have a huge stash of random LEGO pieces—probably in some sort of large, plastic container in the closet—have a new creativity aid at their disposal; at least if they have an iPhone, anyway. It’s an app called Brickit, and it ...
Are you someone with piles of Lego blocks looking for free ideas of what to make with them? Brickit is an iOS app that scans your miscellaneous bricks and generates new model ideas from what you’ve got.
If your kids have a box of jumbled Lego bricks in their bedroom, get it out - because an amazing new app will give them tons of new ideas of what to build with them. The Brickit app is the best use of the iPhone’s AR technology I’ve seen yet.