How Lego’s Smart Brick works

The astir absorbing communicative astatine this year’s CES was conscionable a small mini bundle of technology. One measurement to look astatine Lego’s caller Smart Brick is arsenic thing for illustration a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo pinch infinite hacking imaginable — it tin beryllium anything, successful the champion imaginable way. Another measurement to look astatine it is arsenic a crushing rustle to creativity, a caller measurement for things to break aliases beryllium paywalled, and an affront to everything we emotion astir Lego. Maybe it’s both. Or location successful between.

On this section of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Sean Hollister explains really the Smart Brick useful and why this mini quadrate feels truthful complicated. He explains why Lego mightiness want to make the Smart Brick an unfastened platform and each the reasons it mightiness not to do so. He besides tells america astir some of the demos he’s seen of the caller instrumentality and whether Lego has really made thing imaginative aliases not.

After that, Platformer’s Casey Newton joins the show to talk productivity. We’re still successful New Year’s solution time, erstwhile everyone is trying to get a small much done, and Casey has thought much astir his systems than most. He explains really he curates accusation he cares about, why Capacities is his app of choice, and really he makes judge that each the worldly he’s redeeming doesn’t conscionable vanish forever. Casey’s besides a caller Claude Code convert and has immoderate thoughts astir really that mightiness thief everyone get worldly done.

Finally, David answers a mobility from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 aliases email [email protected]!) astir e-readers and what you really get erstwhile you switch your decade-old instrumentality for a newer one. The reply is some a lot… and not that much.

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