LEGO issued a press release from CES show announcing the next generation of LEGO Mindstorms, called the Mindstorms NXT robotics toolset. After years of no Mindstorms products, there had been much speculation that LEGO was going to drop Mindstorms altogether, so this is great news for lots of LEGO fans. The story is being covered on Slashdot, Gizmodo, and Wired but the most in depth coverage is available at Robot Magazine's website where they have exclusive video and photos of the hardware from CES (by the way, Robot Magazine recently announced an education/club discount subscription rate). We've also heard LEGO has started an NXT Blog where you'll find more NXT news soon.