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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/
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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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