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Tanks a lot
100 GREATEST GADGETS OF 2017 Lightning McQueen
should keep
chugging for 40
minutes before he
needs another
top-up.
S T U F F
T O P L AY
W I T H

ULTIMATE CO ZMO A SUS ROG
ZEPHYRUS
LIGHTNING MCQUEEN Yes, it’s another coding
toy, but this one’s dead
simple. You don’t have You know the drill with
gaming laptops: they’re
to solder its disparate usually big, ugly things
parts together or with nowhere near the
Richard Purvis Ultimate Lightning McQueen is pretty assemble it from a same amount of power
Production Editor fun for us older folk as well… thousand different as a proper desktop
Actually, it’s far too expensive for pieces. Nope, you can computer. Not so with
I know, Pixar’s Cars kids. You wouldn’t want to trust a grab the dapper Cozmo Asus’s ROG Zephyrus.
movies aren’t the best, juvenile with something quite so straight out of his box, This slim, quiet
even if kids do go doolally for them. bright, fragile and surprisingly speedy, switch him on and then behemoth of a machine
But do you know what those wide- would you? And they’ve got the films learn an entirely new rewrites the rulebook
eyed tykes love even more than to be getting on with anyway. No, computer programming with a top-end GeForce
cartoon automobiles? A real-life toy, you’re best off holding onto this thing language. And then all GTX 1080 graphics
one with moving eyes, an animatronic until they grow up a bit and learn to that’s left to do is beat chip. Anyone up for a
mouth and connectivity to your adult appreciate film noir or something. this little robot at his game of portable Call
phone so they can race it themselves. You’re only doing them a favour. many block games. of Duty: WWII?
Come to think of it, this Sphero-made £300 / sphero.com £200 / anki.com US$2699 / asus.com

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