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The Star Wars Force Band Just Got Useful
The Star Wars Force Band is a cute little gadget. It’s fun for controlling your BB-8 robot by waving your arm around, even if it does make it run into walls a little more than we’d like. Today, Sphero has switched on IFTTT support for the Force Band, so you can use it to switch…
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Who Won The Sphero BB-8 Droids For Star Wars Day?
May the Fourth be with you! We’ve been reading your interesting and unique ways to put your very own Sphero BB-8 droid to use as part of our latest competition — and the four winners have been chosen! In 25 words or less, what was the most inventive, oddball or out-of-the-ordinary thing you’d do with…
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Here’s What Sphero’s Wearable Force Band Will Look Like
At CES back in January, Sphero gave us an early look at its upcoming wearable that allows Jedi-in-training to control its BB-8, or any of the company’s rolling toys, using Force-like arm gestures and motions. At that point the company was just showing off a prototype, but it’s now released an image of a more…
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Someone Hacked Open Sphero’s BB-8 To See How It Works Inside
If you were lucky enough to find one of Sphero’s wonderful BB-8 toys on Force Friday and are curious how it works, the folks at uBreakiFix were kind enough to hack theirs open to explore its inner workings — so you don’t have to sacrifice yours.