Anki Overdrive is high-speed, super-smart racing fun

I’ve been a race car driver for as long as I can remember — in video games, of course. It’s been a good existence. Driving at over 150 MPH under a launching space shuttle (thanks, Asphalt 8) can be quite a thrill, but there has been something missing: the visceral feel of live action. That is, until recently, when I competing on a conference table-sized, flexible track with tiny, yet remarkably intelligent race cars that are all part of the upcoming Anki Overdrive.

The name Anki may be familiar to some of you. It was the surprise guest at Apple’s 2013 World Wide Developer’s conference where it unveiled Anki Drive, a robotics-based race car game the combined an iOS App control system with a real track and electric toy race cars. The $200 final product, which arrived in stores that October, was pretty impressive. It featured an oval-pre-printed rack and two cars that could read the road, see each other and connected via Bluetooth to the Anki app Read more...