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Pete, the resident feline critic
The Pete Gazette
The Indoor Game Desk Reviewed for kids & the grown-ups who shop for them Reviewed from the windowsill
Lead Review · From: Nex
The Informant Saw Me; I Declined to Play Along
Our critic is briefly captured on the Nex Playground camera as a fourth player before executing a pointed grooming protest, ultimately endorsing the device only for its warm exhaust-vent napping potential.

My human, in her infinite quest to find new ways to exhaust herself indoors, has acquired a small, unassuming box that connects to the Big Glowing Rectangle. This device, the "Nex Playground," uses a single, unblinking eye to watch the room, projecting images that cause her and any visiting smaller humans to wave their limbs about as if swatting at invisibl…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★☆☆
Warm vents redeem a dull box.
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