OLD AND BUSTED: High-Speed Rail.

The New Hotness? AI Rail.

In the middle of the artificial intelligence area of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where robots abound, there’s a small booth built entirely out of yellow and white large scale Lego blocks. On display there is a massively scalable children’s toy train, called Intelino. I came looking for it because it’s being developed by one of my wife’s clients. It’s labeled for ages three to 99. At the three year old level it’s a cute-as-the-dickens little train with its own track (backwards and forwards compatible with Brio’s wooden toy train tracks). It has flashing lights, makes nifty noises, and comes with stick-on labels to customize the exterior. It senses colored tiles that the child can place on the track to tell the train to go faster, turn left or right, or stop. At older age levels a blue tooth connection allows a downloadable app to control and teach the train. See it here.

(Bumped.)