Who can forget the 90’s. A wonderful time of terrible fashion, worse music and desperately trying to be the first amongst your friends to learn the lyrics to the The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. For so many of us, it was a defining period of our lives, ten gloriously tacky years that made us what we are today. And you don’t have to look too far to find ever present reminders of that strange … Read more
Travel with Han Solo, Chewbacca and their friends with the LEGO Star Wars 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon. This LEGO brick version of the iconic Corellian freighter from Solo: A Star Wars Story features a 2-minifigure cockpit with detachable canopy, 2 spring-loaded shooters, sensor dish, ramp, rotating top and bottom laser turrets with 2 gunner…
This is a robotic building blocks kit compatible with LEGO that you can build, program and use your mobile phone app to create vehicles, drones and more. The ages are 8+ and my 11 year old had no trouble building it though there are some confusion instructions when you have so many extra pieces in the kit of different colors. The robot is fun to build and fun to drive with 3 different speed settings … Read more
Lately there are more STEM robotic kits than ever coming up in the market that not only teach kids how to assemble and build but also to program robotics using object oriented programming mostly in it’s most simplistic form in a mobile or desktop app. Robobloq is one of those companies that markets a robotics kit for various ages, and they sent me their Q-Scout beginner robotics kit which is an excellent entry level robotics … Read more
For a geek, Amazon Echo can be a good friend. It plays the music you love, turn down the lights when you are about to sleep, and locks the doors with just one command. It’s better than most girlfriends or wives in fact. The DJI Mavic Pro Drone is another ultimate gadget that has caught my fancy. Its 4K camera, beautiful finish, and the features to keep it safe absolutely catch my heart. I can play with it for … Read more
Now that my kids are getting bigger, I am finding it harder to know what to get them for Christmas. Here are some great items I have found to get your tech kid happy this Christmas.
Every once in a while we get a gadget related toy here to review and my kids get super excited because it is usually something they can enjoy as much as me when we do the review. In this case it was the Babrit F1 High Speed RC Boat Remote Control Electric Boat and we did put the boat through it’s paces for sure at the beach which is only a 5 minute walk from my … Read more
With the new Transformer movie out, I was given the chance to try out the new Hexbug Warriors Transformer Battle arena from Innovation First International.