The cylindrical toy from Sphero can spin, drift, and flip with the flick of your finger. Sphero's Ollie robot is the perfect compromise between an indoor video game console and outdoor fresh air: For ...

Sphero is a small plastic ball (made by Orbotix) that is controlled with an app on your Android/ios phone, tablet or music player. It is made of a poly carbonate shell and has innards that consist of ...

Over the past year, Sphero has been busy teaming up with Disney on connected toys for film franchises like Star Wars, Spider-Man and Cars. But today the company is launching a product that takes it ...

It's time for our next holiday giveaway, and today we've got two! We're giving away an Orbotix Sphero 2.0, along with the brand new Orbotix Ollie. These two little robots are controlled over Bluetooth ...

Sphero's made a name for itself with connected, rolling toys like the Ollie, SPRK and, perhaps most famously, the Star Wars-inspired BB-8. Of course, the company couldn't have brought its replica of ...

AllThingsD's Ina Fried got to test out a prototype of the Sphero, a robotic ball controlled by an iPhone or Android device. The Colorado start-up was in town for Google's I/O developer conference.

Editor's note: The rules for entering this week's giveaway are different than usual. Please read carefully. Last time we gave away a Sphero app-controlled robot, we had a lot of excited readers. We ...

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This week the folks behind the mobile-controlled sphere toy called Sphero have unveiled a device they call Sphero 2B. This device from Orbitix takes the basics of the Sphero device – the ...