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the new Star Wars droid isn't CGI it's really rolling I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update a new Star Wars trailer is here and sci-fi geeks are giddy with excitement Star Wars The Force awakens arrives this Christmas and the second teaser trailer gives us a glimpse of new characters familiar voices and lots of action the trailers also introduced a new rolling droid called bb-8 this is a real Rollie robot prop created with technology from the company Sparrow the world saw bb-8 live in action on stage during a presentation at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim California and during his adorable brief appearance Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said the technology behind this droid was possible because of a company discovered by Walt Disney President Bob Iger fortune reporters confirmed it was Sphero a start-up tech company that Disney invested in the company is known for making the Bluetooth connected robotic ball toys that are controlled by a smartphone app the Sphero 2.0 is a hundred and thirty dollars and it lights up plays games or you can get creative and how you want to mess with your pets can you imagine if Sphero makes a mini version of bb-8 it could be the biggest Christmas must-have toy ever but if you want a little bb-8 in your life right now you can find them as an emoji on twitter the social network created custom emojis when you use certain hashtags so if you type hashtag bb-8 without the - you'll get a little droid or you can go classic with hashtag c-3po and if you're feeling bad use hashtag stormtrooper and in news that is actually happening in real space the international space station is getting its first espresso machine the SpaceX Dragon capsule arrived Friday morning to the space station with more than two tons of cargo among the supplies are food science gear and an espresso machine called the ISS press o Italy Space Agency helped make it possible and it's all for Italian astronaut captain Samantha Christopher Eddy who has been stuck with instant coffee since she arrived in November engineers worked with the Lavazza Coffee Company to design a machine that can work in a weightless zero-g environment I hope they have little space food with Scotties to go with it but I guess the crumbs would be a nightmare that's your tech news update hejdå cnet.com for more and from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey