How Lego’s Smart Brick works

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of rolling your own MCP server and running cloud code to do absolutely everything in your entire life. Is that possible? Is it a thing a real person can do? Who's to say? But it seems like a cool future, and I'm ready to get into it. I'm your friend David Pierce, and I just got home from CES where we saw tons of gadgets. Thank you to everybody who came up for the live show last week. Thank you to everybody who has written in and sent us all the cool stuff that you saw in Vegas. CES is a blast. But now I'm home, and it's time for my favorite annual tradition of detangling all of the junk that got stuck in my bag over the course of CES. I come home with SD cards full of pictures I need to offload. I come home with just like a bunch of weird swag that I don't remember picking up, but just like things from booths that end up in my backpack. I don't know. I have a lot of stickers. Do you want stickers? I have nowhere to put stickers. CES is, like, full chaos, and then I try to come home and just clean a little bit. And it's, like, now the year starts. I always think of CES as not, like, the beginning of a new year, but the end of last year. Now I come home, and we we started all over. And here we are very excited about it. Today on the show, we're gonna talk a little bit about CES. We're gonna follow-up with Sean Hollister about the Lego smart brick, which I think was pretty undeniably the story of CES and certainly the the device of CES. But there's something interesting going on with what LEGO is up to and what this thing means that we're just gonna dive into more. Then Casey Newton, our friend and the editor of Platformer, is gonna come on the show and we're gonna talk productivity. He is one of my favorite people to talk to about to do lists and note taking apps and all kinds of stuff about how we try to be more useful and get more stuff done without making ourselves crazy. We're gonna talk about that. We've a really fun hotline question coming up. All of that is coming up in just a second. But first, do you know that feeling when you just have too much crap on your desk and, like, I gotta get rid of all of this or I'm gonna lose my mind? That's where I am right now. I'm gonna clean up. This is The Vergecast. We'll be right back. Support for today's show comes from Zoom. Work moves faster when everything works together. That means meetings, chats, docs, and AI companion, all supporting each other seamlessly. Learn more at zoom.com/podcast, and zoom ahead. Support for this show comes …