Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Whenever I write about Anki’s Anki Drive — a remarkable plaything that involves tiny robotic cars you control via iPhone — I call them a dazzling modern-era take on the slot-car racing of my youth.

Anki delivered a devastating blow to slot cars with its original Drive set, giving tiny RC cars a brain so they could stay on a track without the need for a peg underneath. But with Overdrive slot ...

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 ...

Sorry folks, but chances are you’ll have close to none ideas of what your kid will be playing with, in about ten years' time. Things evolve so fast today; technology is getting that smart that you ...

Anki, makers of the Drive racing game that lets players control toy cars with their phones, has launched the second version of its popular title with all-new vehicles and a modular track system, and ...

Anki the smart slot car racing game that was originally unveiled at Apple’s WWDC 2013 and has since then been developing their smart slot cars unveiling their new Anki Overdrive tracks earlier this ...

Think of Anki Overdrive as slot cars for the smartphone age. With upgrades, achievements and characters, it’s a perfect marriage of smartphones with physical toys. The system debuted two years ago and ...

The beautiful package that the Anki Drive racing game arrives in could easily be confused for that of a Red Rider BB gun, so if your kid asked Santa Claus for that, don't buy him this for Christmas: ...

It feels a bit like a magic trick. The toy car on the plastic track is talking to me, explaining the mechanics of the game. I hit the button on my phone to fire my tractor beam, and the other car ...

I’d almost forgotten about them: a crew of colorful toy cars you drop on a stylish track-etched mat, then watch as they scoot around on their own, intelligently weaving and shifting, angling for ...