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this is one of those products where it's hard to say if this qualifies for more the tech channel or the cat channel this is the Sphero from or bought Ock's and basically what it is is if you check out the green one that's out there in the track that they've set up that's the one that I'm controlling with this ipod touch and i'm just going to bring it around back to hello everybody at the sphere of moons we're about to start another spew so this is jonathan's Bureau and I'd like him to explain just a little bit what the heck is going on with this thing out is how do i set this up and get this working so sphere is the smartphone control robotic all works on Android and iOS and how you'd be amazing work it is you shake it to wake it up and it's gonna believe three colors you connect to it over Bluetooth and then you can drive it around we have over 20 different apps and games that you can use either control Sphero or you can actually a sphere as a controller and took it in your hand to try the coraline Idol star addition we have some new augmented reality games that have just come out like Sharky de beaver and the Rolling Dead which we just announced do you want to drive in the race okay let's uh let's sort of let's sort of focus on how you actually managed to race multiples of these things at a time how the heck do you know which one you're connecting to so when you connect to it you can actually bring up the Bluetooth screen here and there we go so you can see there's a bunch of different sphere I was like blue yellow blue green red red purple orange red white purple white so when you wake up your sphere it's going to flash the three color code and you know which one to connect to so if you and your brother both this year on Christmas morning you'll know which one you need to connect to out up perfect now how durable is this thing is it appropriate as a cat toy I mean grew up for my dog even oh yes my dog chews on it all the time in fact so I'm actually take it stand on it on the floor and I'm putting all my weight on that one foot and I'm not crushing it and you can actually just throw it out there and if you go back to the home screen there and relaunch the app you'll be able to drive it around just fine Wow very cool stuff okay so how much does one of these cost retails for 129 it's available at the apple store all right stone and car gear now do I have to control it with the joypad or do I have other options so if you press this button down here you can actually switch it into tilt mode so now you hold it flat it's gonna say sill but as you told that it's gonna drive in whichever direction you tilt it so unlike an RC car there isn't an obvious front of the Sphero so how does it know that when I tilt it this way it needs to move away from me so when you first start playing with it you actually have to aim it so you press this button right here my guards is behind the pillar alright so we got all our Spiros on a little light comes on we point that blue light towards us and then Sphero knows we're dating and relationship new late this way cuz we are going clockwise so this was the sphere from warbot Ock's win don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage and as always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips you have a we actually didn't make it away from the or buttocks booth just yet they have an augmented reality game with their little ball device here that doesn't look like a ball anymore at all in fact it looks well if you look down at the ground it looks like a ball but if you look at the screen that's taking a feed from the ipad being held by fabrizio here it is a beaver that is running around on the ground so you guys are replacing with the camera on the iPad the ball with this beaver model yeah that's correct yep yeah so we're tracking the ball and every frame and using it to figure out where the ball is where the camera is and that allows us to draw any kind of 3d content we want in this app we just draw over the ball but we have other apps where we draw other objects in zombies come up out of the ground coins to collect all sorts of things now you showed us here do you want to just turn yourself so that oh yeah I guess here just bringing up yeah that can there you go there you go so now you can see what he looks like he actually gets bigger as the ball gets closer can you take them a little bit further away from us so that we can see how yeah there we go so we can see how he gets smaller as he gets further away so you have a game where you can chuck cupcakes to them and you can fling them quite a distance in order to try to feed mr. Sharkey over there is that correct alright so guy is very very cool down though it goes beyond just sort of you know racing it around on a track I mean this is more of a tech demo at this point but you guys have plans to continue to develop this in the future the next year we're going to build this out i mean the gameplay opportunities are really huge you know you can multiplayer replace it with you know any kind of avatar you want drop static objects in your living room and go visit them later it's sort of crazy lots of lots of lots of opportunity for innovation very cool stuff guys don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage make sure you're subscribed to Linus tech tips you