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Mindstorms' Next Generation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the about-to-break dept.

davey23sol writes: "MSNBC has a 2.0 review of Lego Mindstorms here. Looks like they have put in an easier programming system for users, touch and light sensors, and some other stuff. The transmitters for the infrared transmitters are now USB instead of serial, too. The new system will be $200, and if you have Mindstorms now the upgrade will just be $20. It should all be available this month. I can't wait to get one (never got around to getting my Mindstorms kit)." This review may not go into $200 worth of depth, so I look forward to more detailed reader reviews (and more pictures) when this is widely available :)

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  1. Re:MSNBC Rendering for This Article is Crap by matrix0040 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i'm using netscape 4.72 and it renders it pretty well and so does opera5.0. but the site is really slow. i guess they've been /.ed

  2. Re:MSNBC Rendering for This Article is Crap by 4444444 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I just tried it with a 2 month old build of mozilla on winME and it worked fine for me. even the casino.net pop up add worked fine (unforunately)

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  3. Re:MSNBC Rendering for This Article is Crap by reynaert · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Upgrade. I use Mozilla 0.9.3 and it has absolutely no problems on that site.

    In fact, I've never had problems like that with Mozilla.

  4. Re:I remember Legos by bugg · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    His name was Timothy McVeigh. The government has tried to paint him solely as "The Oklahoma City Bomber" to try to justify his murder; their reasoning being we're destroying a monster, not a person, but a bomber. Don't forget that he was the

    I'm also willing to bet he played with legos; most children do.

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