The new Anki OVERDRIVE: Fast & Furious Edition combines one of best-known movie franchises an incredibly intelligent racing set. At first glance it might look like just a miniature remote-controlled ...

Anki Overdrive lets players create their own track and race robotic cars with AI through a video-game app. Brian Reinert Remember electric slot cars, the ones that invariably flew off the track?

Four of Anki Overdrive's racers line up at the start line, to compete against one another. Nick Deel/International Business Times When it comes to toys, slot car tracks are traditionally known as ...

I was a Hot Wheels kid, but secretly, I pined for slot cars. Buzzing with current and fast as hell, slot car sets made by companies like Tyco and Aurora made my manually powered die-cast trinkets look ...

Anki Overdrive may be a bigger investment, but it offers a more accessible and varied experience than Real FX. Hobbyist racers may still prefer the classic thrills and spills of Real FX, but younger ...

Anki Overdrive is a video-game with a difference. The action happens in the real world on pre-printed race tracks. Players control and upgrade the cars via a smartphone app. Previously, this has been ...

Anki Overdrive turns up the video-game mechanics with One Shot Kill and Balance Cars in free 1.3.0 app update. As you can see in the videos here the Anki Overdrive racing action happens on the living ...

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The coolest connected toys of 2015 are back for round two this fall. Sphero has just rolled out (sorry) the similar BB-9E and the even grander R2-D2 (follow-ups to its delightful app-controlled BB-8), ...

With the toys-to-life genre, the model has usually been one way. If you look at Skylanders orDisney Infinity, players have figurines and they put them on a reader of some sort and that instantly ...

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