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Re: Mindstorms in Entertainment Weekly
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:27:28 GMT
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The LEGO Mindstorms site (http://www.legomindstorms.com) had AVI/QT movies
of both of their video advertisments, as well as a schedule of when they
would appear on TV.

I prefer the other one (it had a mindstorms bulldozer which pushes dishes
off of a table to "clean up").

alex

Lee Jorgensen wrote in message <363E99DD.81055F34@hotmail.com>...
During the Vikings/Tampa Bay football (America:) last sunday (11/1),
there was a Lego Mindstorm ads.  Pretty funny, a robot sneaking up
on a bathtub, and when the wife sticks her head out, the robot snaps a
picture and scurries off.

-Lee.

Tim Rueger wrote:

Hi, all,

This week's Entertainment Weekly (dated 11/6/98, with
Alanis Morissette on the cover) has in its Multimedia
section a brief writeup on Mindstorms.

It's pretty basic stuff, written up in EW's typically
glib fashion.  Also shown is a photo of the card-
dealing 'bot.

A brief excerpt:

  For every parent who's ever spent Christmas morning
  cursing under his or her breath trying to put
  together's Johnny's new toy, Lego has a new
  nightmare for you.  [...]  At $200 this is a big
  ticket item, but with only 100,000 sets
  manufactured for the U.S. holiday market - well,
  can you say "Tickle Me Lego"?

I like the "this toy's gonna be hot" angle, but I
don't like much the implied "parents have to build
it 'cause kids are too dumb to" aspect.

At any rate - it's good to see some more mainstream
press for Mindstorms.

-Tim

--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/

--
Lee Jorgensen  --  Custom Programmer
mailto://profm@hotmail.com
Ban-Koe Systems (Inc?)





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During the Vikings/Tampa Bay football (America:) last sunday (11/1), there was a Lego Mindstorm ads. Pretty funny, a robot sneaking up on a bathtub, and when the wife sticks her head out, the robot snaps a picture and scurries off. -Lee. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)

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