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Music
Now US Sony Rolly Users Can Remotely Control Too
3:06AM Jason Chen | US users now get six-month-old Bluetooth remote Japanese technology. Just by updating the firmware in your Rolly to 2.0! Get excited! Gojirra! [Sony via Sony Insider] More »
Robots
Rolly Orchestrates Aibo Chorus of Doom
5:00PM Elaine Chow | Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce us to the real enemy. You thought your robot overlords would resemble Skynet? No, my friend. What you should be fearing is this: obedient, discontinued machine puppies. [Robot.Impress] More »
Toys
Ultimate Toy Robot Battlemodo
7:00AM Benny Goldman | Everyone wants love, companionship and contact. Those who can’t get it from humans can turn to the latest crop of hot toy robots: Wall-E in three sizes, WowWee’s Rovio, Femisapien and Mr. Personality, the dino D-Rex, multi-talented Elmo Live and Sony’s enchantingly personable Rolly music player. Each exudes a desire to be your loyal friend from every noisy servo and glowing LED. But which should you choose? More »
Robots
Sony’s Rolly MP3 ‘Bot Gets To Do RC Bluetooth Jives With Your Mobile Phone
7:13PM Kit Eaton | Sony’s Rolly is such a strange beast it either confuses, bemuses or amuses you…and now there’s a new version with Bluetooth remote control mode. So you can now steer around your confusing, bemusing, amusing little robot MP3 dancer—in fact you can control up to seven of the SEP-50BTs, from a mobile phone or laptop. Still, there’s now a pink version too, and its price hasn’t moved. It’s still around $US400, and its out November 21 in Japan. [RobotWatch] More »
Music
Sony Rolly Rollies Into US
11:40PM Mark Wilson | With the Sony Rolly now available in Sony Style stores nationwide, things will change. The television? Dead. The internet? Deader. The fireplace? Surprisingly, effective competition if the Rolly gets too close. Americans will take to staring at this little dancing 2GB MP3 player for hours on end, sacrificing heat, food and clothing to make due with the US$400 price tag. We’re sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but now that the wheels are in motion, it’s too late to stop. More »
Gadgets
Sony Rolly Soon Rolling Out in Black Shell, Coloured Arms
6:33PM Gizmodo US Edition | Seems like Sony’s Rolly really is due out soon, and it’ll be available in a black body version with a matching black cradle. If black’s too boring for you, then you’ll also be able to trick your Rolly out with blue, red or silver replacement “arms”. Maybe they’re “wings”? Whichever: the little rolling, MP3-playing guy will be out in black from April 19th in Japan for around $430, while a coloured arm set will cost around $20. Presumably Rolly will be rolling up on US shores sometimes soon after. [AV Watch] More »
Toys
The i-spin (Also Known As Sega Rolly)
1:53AM Mark Wilson | The next big trend in technology? Dancing robots. Yup. Sorry. It’s fate. It’s out of our hands. Like this Sega Toys i-spin, it either dances to ambient music or hooks to your MP3 player as a speaker—I mean, how will this not be the next consumer electronics revolution? After all, it dances. To music. So one day when we’re sitting in goo to power the robots, it’ll be for this, a coupla Sony Rollies and, if we’re lucky, one of those gyrating Coke cans from the early 90s. [i-spin] Thanks Ken! More »
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Sony Rolly on Sale in Japan Sept 29th, comes with Annoying Video
6:57PM Addy Dugdale | So, Sony’s dancing Rolly is finally out today, after all that crazy hype. And I looked at it from all angles, sat through an arse-numbingly too-cool-for-school video &mdash feel free to indulge yourselves below &mdash and thought, do you know what? The egg-shaped dancing MP3 and ATRAC player looks like a small clone of the Miuro robot speaker. More »
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