I played with the Lego Smart Brick
TL;DR
The author was initially skeptical about Lego's new Smart Brick, fearing it might limit creativity. However, after trying it, they found it to be smarter and more imaginative than expected, unlike previous predictable toys like Lego Mario.
When The Lego Group announced that its biggest innovation since 1978 would be a tiny proprietary computer brick, the reactions were divided. I heard from people concerned this was the death of imagination from a company that's all about imagination - and from people who thought it sounded pretty cool!
Personally, I walked in skeptical. My kids loved Lego's previous computer bricks, the Lego Mario toys, but don't play with them for long because they're predictable and fiddly to use! But I walked out with a grin on my face. These Smart Bricks are far smarter and more imaginative than I expected.
This isn't like Lego Mario where scanning a b …