The LEGO Group has introduced LEGO SMART Play, a revolutionary platform that brings LEGO creations to life with responsive bricks, minifigures and tags, all without screens.

LEGO has announced a huge update to its bricks, which the company is calling "one of the most significant evolutions" in 50 years.

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.

Lego's construction sets have been a fantastic choice for analog play for several decades now. These interlocking building blocks are set to get way more interesting with the inventive toy company's new Smart Play system that features electronics-packed bricks and minifigures for more