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hello tech fans on the west wait to see net here at CES 2014 we're taking a look at the Sphero to be a robot that you control with your phone so the Sphero 2b is the sequel to the Sphero which you might recognize from rolling around on the floor of your local toy shop you control this robot using a smartphone it works with iOS or Android you can see the controls here using this app you can actually drive the thing you can also change the color of the logo which I particularly like they communicate using Bluetooth 4.0 and you can use several of them to have a kind of shooting match that they fire invisible virtual missiles out of this logo on the front and if you manage to hit your enemies Sphero to be there then they'll lose some health the to beat is cleverly weighted so even as it's spinning around and tumbling all over the place the main body part actually stays kind of central you get one hour battery life and it moves at five meters per second which your buttocks tells me is roughly as fast as most humans so you can definitely chase someone something I particularly like is that you get all of these different kinds of tires this one here has the these knobby tires which are kind of all rounder I think this one over here has these smoother drift tires if you're into some insane drifting stunt action I'm told that you can get about three feet of air if you ramp one of these off a jump these models are just prototypes but the final version will be on sale in holiday season 2014 I'm told and they're gonna cost $99 which impressively is cheaper than the first Sphero find controlled robots what's not to love I'm the Westway for more from CNET's at CES 2014 go to CES cnet.com