How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets
Lego's next release is a digital brick loaded with sensors that add new layers of interactivity to its play sets.
Lego says its Smart Brick is “here to stay” but “does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind”, after criticism of abandoning non-digital play
“It's very important to be clear, this does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind.”
Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds
CMU researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types
On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts.
Notion releases Notion Mail, a lightweight Gmail client to help users schedule meetings and organize and draft emails, available as a free macOS and web app
here's how it went Lloyd Coombes / Tom's Guide : Exclusive: Notion Mail boss on shaking up email, building apps with ‘Lego’ and new platforms Jared Newman / Fast Company : Notion Mail lets you build t...
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source
Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
Mac Pro needs little to no tooling for basic fixes and upgrades, scores a 9/10 on repairability; components are modular but some are proprietary, like SSD cards
and outside — the 2019 Mac Pro in pictures Asif Shaik / iPhone Hacks : Mac Pro Can Play 16K Videos Using Only One of Its Graphics Cards Richard Lawler / Engadget : The Morning After: iFixit peeks insi...
Some chip makers are building processors with multiple small pieces of silicon, or “chiplets”, hoping to better keep up with Moore's Law
IN 2016, THE chip industry's clock ran out. — For 50 years, the number of transistors that could be squeezed onto a piece of silicon … Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Think of ‘chiplets’ like high-t...
Apple updates Swift Playgrounds education programming app with support for robots and drones, partnering with Lego, Sphero, Parrot, rolling out June 5
With support for LEGO, Sphero, and Parrot — Apple today announced that its education programming iPad app, Swift Playgrounds, will soon support robots and drones.
Acer's coolest new PC lets you build a computer like Lego bricks
Building your own computer is starting to come back in style thanks to initiatives like Phonebloks and Google's Project Ara, and now Acer is bringing that idea to the desktop. It's introducing a new ...