The Cubelets Discovery Set

Price: $139 (approx. £100) www.modrobotics.com

If you combine the assembling fun of LEGO with computer programming, you get Cubelets by Modular Robotics. This discovery kit is filled with small robotic building blocks called Cubelets, which have been created to give budding engineers the opportunity to get creative with computer programming. Each Cubelet serves a different purpose: SENSE cubes can take information from their environment, such as touch, then THINK cubes compute that information and send it to the ACT Cubelets, which turn that information into physical action.