You might have thought you’d seen every possible size and shape of brick and accessory, but the brand is about to ruin your complacent attitude to your Lego basket. Lego is bringing interactive bricks and minifigures to new kits. At CES 2026, Lego unveiled the Smart Brick – a new type of Lego brick with inbuilt technology that can sense and interact with other Smart Bricks and Smart Minifigures. In shape, it’s a standard 2×4 brick (31.8×15.8mm), but it contains a bespoke silicon ASIC chip and accelerometer that allow it to sense movement, plus LED lights and speakers that let it respond with sound and light. The Smart Bricks come with a charger that allows them to charge wirelessly, via a copper coil in the Brick itself, in the same way that an electric toothbrush does. The brick then uses a wireless system, BrickNet, based on Bluetooth, which allows a Smart Brick to locate other Smart Bricks, Smart Tags and Smart Minifigures, without using an app or the internet. Smart Tags have digital ID tags that tell the Smart Brick the context in which it’s being used. For example, it could say whether the Smart Brick is in a spaceship or an animal, and therefore which sounds it would be appropriate to emit. In practice, this means that the Lego can make zooming spaceship noises along with your child. And having a minifigure react to a spaceship flying past could be pretty delightful. Lego The Smart Brick will make its debut in three Star Wars products: Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter (£59.99/$69.99/€69.99), Luke’s Red Five X-Wing (£79.99/$99.99/€89,99) and Throne Room Duel & A-Wing (£139.99/$159.99/€159.99). Each set will include a Lego Smart Brick, a charger and at least one Smart Minifigure and Smart Tag. Lego Lego says that the Smart Play system has been “designed to inspire children” but the best thing about seeing kids play with Lego is watching the way in which they shamelessly repurpose every available piece to build nightmarish Cronenbergian creations – in which case the Smart Bricks could prove a tiny bit limiting. After all, who cares what the Smart Tag thinks is going on when you’re building a space-tree-monster mashup? And although the tech behind it is undoubtedly cool, while it appears that Smart Bricks will be able to make all kinds of sounds – including vehicles, animals, characters and effects, it’s not clear what range of sounds individual Smart Bricks will have and how much they’ll be limited by their kit. The new kits with Smart Bricks will be released on 1 March 2026, so parents can start bricking themselves now. Prepare for another toy that needs charging and for hunting down the Smart Bricks lost in the bottom of the Lego tub. See all of the best of the new tech on show in Tech Advisor’s CES hub .