Sphero's $150 app-enabled BB-8 Droid is a fun robotic toy, but the novelty wears off once you realize there's not much to do with it beyond driving it around and watching it bump into things.

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Normally priced around $130, this adorable rolling droid was rescued and refurbished. Great gift for a dad or grad? Plus: Let's just say it rhymes with "slewtruth bleaker." Rick Broida is the author ...

Part and parcel of that is merchandise, with Sphero cranking out four models of app-controlled droids in time for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" — and AppleInsider has three of them. In case you missed it ...

Forget Kim Kardashian's arse, this little BB-8 droid toy almost broke the internet when unveiled recently. Now we've had a play, we can see why. Bringing what is fast becoming a favourite character of ...

" Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in theaters this December, but you don't have to wait until then to get up close and personal with one of the movie's new characters. Thanks to robot maker Sphero ...

The impetus, Sphero said, was unfinished business. The BB-8 is by far Sphero’s most successful product — last year on launch day, the company sold more than 2,000 of the $150 units “every hour.” But ...

As far as beeping, rolling robots go in the Star Wars universe, BB-8 did much to steal R2-D2's thunder in The Force Awakens. Last year Sphero gave kids (and big kids) the chance to own one of the ...

Among the inevitable avalanche of merchandise that accompanied the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens last year, Sphero's little app-controlled BB-8 was a clear standout. An instant ...

The new Sphero Star Wars R2-Q5 app-enabled droid was made official yesterday. The device is launching in the UK later this month. The Sphero Star Wars R2-Q5 will go on sale in the UK on the 27th of ...

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