Toy producer Lego has launched its Good Play system, which incorporates Lego bricks, tags and minifigurines with built-in sensors and a tiny speaker that make play interactive at this 12 months’s Shopper Electronics Present in Las Vegas.
In keeping with Lego, the Good Play system is powered by “invisible” applied sciences which might be built-in inside a standard-sized Lego brick, a small square-shaped “tag”, and sure collectible figurines that make the items mild up and play sounds in response to 1 one other and the exercise of customers.
The system is powered by the Good Brick, based on Lego, which incorporates a custom-made chip “measuring smaller than a regular Lego stud”.
“The platform is powered by the Lego Good Brick, which is full of ground-breaking, world-first applied sciences that imply Lego builds can reply to how they’re performed with for the primary time,” stated Lego.
“The mixture of Lego Good Play’s platform parts – the Brick, Tags and Minifigures – reacts in actual time to carry an interactive play expertise to youngsters that is stuffed with exploration and imaginative storytelling.”
In keeping with the corporate, the brick incorporates sensors, accelerometers, mild sensing, a sound sensor and a “miniature speaker pushed by an onboard synthesiser” that creates the interactive play.
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The brick and tags are affixed to the Lego builds, whereas the minifigures make noises when they’re performed with.
The varied items “work like contactless tech” and use copper coil, magnetic fields and Bluetooth to work together.
The system formally launches in March 2026, with the primary items obtainable as a part of three Star Wars units.
“Followers can unlock Good options resembling Lightsaber hums with the Good Minifigures of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, the engine roar of the A-wing, and even take heed to The Imperial March with Emperor Palpatine sitting on his throne,” stated Lego.
The bricks are charged wirelessly on a yellow dock.
Lego says it plans to increase the system with “new updates, launches and expertise”.
Additionally at CES, Samsung launched a minimalist speaker by French designer Erwan Bouroullec as a part of the present, whereas Swiss expertise firm Punkt launched a privacy-focused smartphone.
The Shopper Electronics Present (CES) is on in Las Vegas, USA from 6 to 9 January 2026. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date listing of structure and design occasions happening world wide.
The images is courtesy of The Lego Group
