Gadgetory

spiros a robotics company that's made a lot of different toys and Star Wars robots so what's a company like Sphero doing making a musical ring scare oh spectrums is what the company is announcing a CES 2019 and this little musical ring device can sense colors and turn them into music and it's an initiative to create coding music type experiences for people if they want to wear one ring or two or a whole bunch I got to play with one before and during CES Sphero acquired the company that made spectrums and what it is is a little rechargeable ring that can sense color and then it turns that color into an assent aesthetic experience by converting that into sound it comes with a mat that provides a bunch of colors and you can pair the ring with an app on your phone that then plays the music so if I tap these colors you can play various sounds and build up different set lists I don't know how to play music as you can see the app comes to the number of different instruments set lists that you can activate to create different keyboard sounds or you can record your own voice samples and assign them to different colors see that it's also compatible with Bluetooth MIDI if there are apps that are compatible with that so you could possibly use this as a more elaborate musical instrument beyond what the app enables well Sphero eventually use this in robotics who knows really what you're doing is converting color into something else so there are possibilities for coding there's possibilities for all sorts of play and by the way you don't even need this keyboard because spectrums works on any color at all like a table or my hand or my watch band or the colorful carpets at CES or snacks or your friend's Christmas sweater who knows you just keep playing this anywhere and that's what I was trying to do so come with me as I play in a painting I have no idea what spectrums will ultimately be used for but Sphero is trying to enter into the steam landscape not just stem to incorporate arts in addition to Science and Technology and engineering we'll eventually spectrums become part of the larger sphere robotics family will we see robots that can scan color and turn it into sounds or use it for some sort of coding tool we'll have to see in the meantime for $65 for one ring or $100 for two rings starting this month you can start playing around with color drums just on your own