Dear Santa...

The latest versin of Lego Mindstorms has been released. The newest release, titled NXT has many improvements from previous versions of the kit. According to Red Herring:

Lego’s Mindstorms kit has always appealed to schoolchildren and academic researchers. They’ve been used in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition for kids, as well as in projects by computer science departments at Harvard and other universities.

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“Outside the military and big commercial companies, hobbyists have had to [rummage around] for parts. Toolsets like this could get more and more people interested in building robots, even if it’s just people who are interested in high-tech toys,”...

At $250 the price may be too much to appeal to everyone, but the idea of building my own robots completely justifies the price to me. I mean, comon! ROBOTS!