Gadgetory

This is Ross Miller with The Verge. One of the best toys to come out of Star Wars: the Force Awakens is Sphero's BB-8. This is a fully functional droid and it's a premium product but it's definitely been a huge seller. Now next year Sphero is going to do something a little bit crazy with this. And they're actually going to add force gestures is what they're calling it. And this is actually the wearable. It's going to be called the force band. It's coming out later this year but we are going to try a technical demo. I'm going to stress that this is just a technical demo so some thing might not work, some things will work. Let's just give it a shot. We recognize the basic gestures. So if I tell him to come, he comes to me. Okay. And go away. Alright. And then that gets you into this driving mode where you can kind of continuously move. Force pull. There you go. Come hither. Stop. Look around. Cool. Sphero says the force band, and that might not even be it's final name, is coming out sometime in the fall. No price details, the design's not final, these gestures might change. Even the name again might change. So right now it's just kind of a sign of what's Sphero wants to do with BB-8 and indeed maybe the entire Sphero lineup itself. Sphere this fall is also releaseing a new version of the BB-8. The only difference is really just the aesthetic it's got the Jakku kind of sand just kind of built in for that. So that's also coming this fall. Sphere is hoping to have more details. Some more final details at Toy Faire this year sometime in February. So until then for more Sphero news for more BB-8 news from more anything CES or gadget related check out theverge.com or subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/theverge