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> “Kids want a real tablet, not a toy,” the Jeff Bezos-founded company said in a press release

An almost verbatim line from Toy Story. Incredible. Only the main character was quite a bit older than 3.

I have a rule for gifts for my kids: no screens. Toys are so much more interesting than screens. They'll prob end up staring at screens their whole lives for work.

When I was a kid I had a toy robot that you could input a path into and it'd walk the path. Is that out of bounds for you?

Was it a bee?

No, it was a toy robot... I just said that.

I guess I should have clarified that I meant a robot made to look like a bee...

https://www.teaching.com.au/product/rechargeable-bee-bot

These were a rite of passage here in Australia for any kid who showed an interest in maths or computers.

So basically real life Logo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language))?

I would have loved this as a kid!

Yup exactly. My analogue would be the `turtle` library in Python. In fact when I started teaching kids Python that was what I reached for, the level up over the bee!

Did it have a screen? Segmented displays may be allowed...

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