Barcode treat
1st January 1998, Page 19
1st January 1998
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Fed up with video games and virtual pets? Worried that your kids will grow up not knowing an axle from an artichoke? Then lego's latest kit could be the thing that shuts them up this Christmas. The Technic Barcode Truck will set you back a whopping £85, but it kept CM'S technical editor enthralled for a whole weekend. You can programme the truck's movements using a range of barcode commands, but be careful: one swipe of a tin of ilsda beans and the buck just sat outside the depot for hours...
Stil, our tech ed has promised to build me a fully automated Reliant Robin for Christmas, complete with dog hairs and a faint smell of damp. Lovely!