LEGO BOOST

For all the startups making coding toys for kids, the giant mule that is Lego just Buckaroo’d their efforts into dust. Shame. But Boost does look great: a whole system of programmable pieces and a block-coding app, aimed at a lower age point than its existing Mindstorms codables. Instructions for five starter models come with Boost, including a playable guitar, a robot called Vernie and an Autobuilder – a miniproduction line for making Lego models. But it’s the custom projects we’ll be excited about come August. Uh, excited for our kids, we mean. £tba (due August) / lego.com