Tom Donaldson, head of Lego’s Creative Play Lab, said the tech intended to respond to children’s actions and compliment the way they naturally play.<\/p>\n
He said the Smart Brick’s reactions to responses would “hopefully inspire and surprise the user to keep them continuing to play”.<\/p>\n
“We are building a platform that we want to last for many years,” he said.<\/p>\n
Prof Manches told the BBC reduced cost and size of components has “enabled more toymakers to integrate digital technology seamlessly into a range of toys”.<\/p>\n
But he added despite exciting innovation, concerns remain about the security and privacy of new and emerging smart toys for children – particularly those which integrate AI. <\/p>\n
“The key is to us all to remain critically reflective of the design of these toys, and to pay much attention to how they influence children’s everyday lives,” he said.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time Lego has dabbled in digital experimentation or sought to appeal to increasingly online audiences.<\/p>\n
Since 2017 it has released augmented reality apps and experiences letting people play with computer-generated models layered over their surroundings.<\/p>\n
Through collaborations with video game publishers such as Nintendo and Fortnite-maker Epic Games it has also looked to appeal to fans of trending games or new launches – releasing a Super Mario Minifigure in 2020 with a tiny display screen.<\/p>\n
Lego chief executive Niels B. Christiansen said in its 2024 Annual Report it had accelerated spending on digital technology as a “strategic area” for the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Donaldson, head of Lego’s Creative Play Lab, said the tech intended to respond to children’s actions and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-355544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}