The history of electronic playthings has always been pockmarked with disappointment. For every Milton Bradley Simon — a 1978 game so appealing that it stayed on the market for decades — there have ...

A 21st century building block company has released its first three kits — electronic building blocks that snap together and power projects, showing kids the fundamentals of circuitry as they do ...

From an outsider's perspective, Picroma's Cube World might look like yet another Minecraft clone. It has the same blocky appearance and voxel design of Mojang's money-printing sandbox, and though the ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

The robots -- known as M-Blocks -- feature no external moving parts. But they are still able to successfully complete a range of tricks like climbing over one another and leaping through the air. they ...