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Faster Bluetooth pairing and a better app come to Sphero's educational platform. From painting to swimming to maze-running, we put it through its paces. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

Sphero’s second mini kit, Sphero Mini soccer, is inspired by the sport of soccer. Included in the kit is Sphero mini robotic ball with a soccer-ball style shell and cones. Kids can use the Sphero Play ...

Originally sold as the world’s first remote control ball, Sphero’s baseball-sized rolling toy has evolved over the years to eventually become one of the most accessible ways to learn the basics of ...

Sphero is known for devices like the Sphere Bolt app-enabled robot, the BB-8 toy that launched alongside Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the new Sphero Specdrums, which Sphero launched at CES 2019.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fighting zombies with a smartphone-controlled ball is certainly fun, if you can justify the price tag. Orbotix's Sphero 2.0 is a ...

The classroom can be a boring place, but the students of the future seem to be in for a much more high-tech education, with companies such as Aerowood creating products to develop skills for a coding ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An educational toy with staying power, the new Sphero Bolt is designed to get budding programmers off to a great start. These days there ...

Orbotix’s new Sphero 2B toy is a bit like an "S" model of an iPhone. The smartphone-controlled toy, which ships this fall, still lets you whip around your living room with reckless abandon. But as a ...

Orbotix, the makers of a small, spherical robot named Sphero, have decided to promote the new Sphero 2.0 with a riff on one of 2013’s hottest tech stories: the announcement of Amazon’s Prime Air drone ...