We review the first Lego Smart Brick sets, including the $70 Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter, the $90 Luke’s Red Five X-Wing, and the $160 Throne Room Duel.

I’m deep inside Lego’s headquarters in Billund, Denmark, in a private office that’s part of the company’s Creative Play Lab. The secretive division of 237 staff based here and in London, Boston, and ...

If those ideas translate, designers could build whisker-like probes that “tell” you where contact happened through their materials alone. Research findings are available online in the journal Science.

A flexible electronic skin stacks carbon nanotube layers to sense touch position and pressure simultaneously, performing classification through its physical structure rather than external processors. ...

A research team led by Massachusetts University has integrated a touch sensor with a memristor for a device that only only processes data around pixels that contain a signal while ignoring irrelevant ...

Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin itself. Researchers at Northwestern University and Israel's Tel Aviv ...

Lego has unveiled its revolutionary "Smart Play" system, integrating advanced sensors, LED lighting and high-fidelity speakers into its iconic plastic bricks to create a more immersive building ...

Last year, a really cool collaboration was unveiled in the form of the Pokemon LEGO collection. Yes, the pocket monsters that we’ve been enjoying for almost 30 years were getting their very own LEGO ...

LAS VEGAS — In the high-energy gaming halls of CES 2026, where the latest virtual reality headsets and haptic vests compete for attention, a quiet breakthrough from Scotland is promising to change how ...

Lego bricks come in a bunch of shapes and sizes, but they’re getting a big technical upgrade in 2026 thanks to news announced at CES this year. Meet the Lego Smart Brick, a standard-sized 2 x 4 brick ...

Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker face off in one of Lego's new Smart Play sets (Nathan Ingraham for Engadget) Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital ...

LEGO has just debuted its greatest innovation in 50 years, since the introduction of the LEGO Minifigure in 1978, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It represents a radical shift to ...