The Lego Group has unveiled its Smart Play system, which uses “Smart Bricks” and “Smart Tags” to bring Lego sets to life. The Smart Bricks are powered by a custom ASIC chip that is smaller than one standard Lego stud and is highly specialised for the features of the Lego Smart Play system.

In childhood, many of us wondered — wouldn’t it be cool if our miniature toys had “real” functions? Say, that our toy cars actually were able to drive, or at least, that the headlights could light up. [James Brown] captures some of this childhood ...

Lego fans that are looking for an endlessly upgradable Lego computer case are sure to enjoy a look at this awesome Lego computer created by Mike Schropp. The Lego computer case is complete built from Lego and finished with a a strip of light and buttons to ...

The maker of the Mini Lego Computer has just published details about a cheaper, smaller Micro Lego Computer. True to the spirit of Lego, the new computer offers modular expansion 'bricks' including an external hard disk and a card reader with USB Hub.

For some people, a PC isn't just a work horse. It's also a way of life. For these people, sprucing up their computers is just as important as beefing them up with specs and features. And what better way to spruce a rather bland, industrial looking box than ...

Custom PC builder Mike Schropp, who recently launched his Mini Lego computer priced from $999 and up depending on your choice of hardware, has this week launched a new system in the form of the Micro Lego Computer. This new offering is priced more ...

Students, hobbyists and tech-savvy parents who use–or plan to use–the LEGO Mindstorms kits with the NXT computer module usually program the device through a graphical language such as a subset of LabVIEW from National Instruments. But ambitious ...

Lego computers are about as old as the case mod scene itself, but while many have qualified as interesting, we've never seen a truly sexy Lego box before Luke Anderson's all-black "Lego Computer," which seems to distill all we've ever loved about high-end ...

With over 40,000 pieces in his possession, [Mike] is definitely a huge fan of LEGO. Given that he’s also very much a fan of technology, it’s no surprise that he has built more than one type of LEGO computer case. He wrote in to tell us that he’s ...

This might not mean much to those who build Lego sets purely for display purposes, but as far as interactivity goes, Lego has claimed, 'We've created a brick that plays back', which is incredibly cool (and certainly wasn't on my 2026 bingo card).