Gadgetory

before bb-8 Sphero is a robotics company that made little rolling robot balls the Sphero mini is like the larger sphere oh but lots smaller it's about the size of a ping-pong ball rolls around lights up and runs for about 45 minutes to an hour on a charge unlike the larger spiro spero mini isn't waterproof and it doesn't have a cool wireless inductive charger instead you pop the rolling engine out of its plastic housing and plug it into micro USB included mini pins let you use it for bowling the iOS and Android app handles controls with joystick tilt and even face controls which worked so so smiling frowning tilting your head or use it to control a few arcade games built into the app zero mini has extra plastic shells sold separately which snap on and off the internal LED lights can flash all sorts of colors it's also programmable via sphero's edu app it's mostly a super clever remote controlled phone toy and yes you need a phone or a tablet to control it but it's affordable enough to be a stocking stuffer at 50 dollars it's also bound to hypnotize all your children and cats