This Semi-secret Lego Smart Brick Feature Gives It Even More Potential

The "Lego Ruler". | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

We conscionable gave nan Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show grant astatine CES 2026, and I wanted to extremity by The Lego Group's suite to get a past glimpse earlier I near Las Vegas.

To my surprise, nan institution showed disconnected 1 much characteristic I didn't spot during my first demo, possibly nan astir awesome 1 should these bricks make their measurement to big builders: precise region measurement.

Lego Group creation head Maarten Simons whipped retired a "Lego ruler" made of modular Lego bricks divided into segments that were each 10 Lego studs, aliases astir 8cm (3.15 inches) long. He attached a Smart Brick to 1 extremity of nan ruler, and dragged a 2nd Smart Brick on it …

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