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At a distance By Harriet Price, ICT advisor, Homerton Nursery and Early Years Centre, Cambridge

By Harriet Price, ICT advisor, Homerton Nursery and Early Years Centre, Cambridge

Remote controls and programmable toys have a kind of magic about them.

Children can control them and make them 'go' just with the press of a button. The toys fall into two groups:

* programmable toys that respond with specific movements over predictable distances

* remote controls that move as long as a button is held down.

Duplo Buggies

We love the Duplo Remote Control Buggies, which are extremely robust. They come with screwdrivers to put together any number of combinations of vehicles and can be used inside and outside. Cleverly, the three remotes act on different radio frequencies so they don't interfere with each other.

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