Lego announces smart brick
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LEGO Reveals the Smart Brick, a Technology-Packed Toy Piece Dubbed 'The Next Exciting Chapter' for the Company's Future, Launching Inside New Star Wars Sets LEGO has announced the Smart Brick, a chip-powered piece due to be integrated into upcoming sets that it describes as "the next exciting chapter" of the 90-year-old toy company.
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.