{"id":409451,"date":"2017-09-30T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/29\/sphero-mini-robotic-ball\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:10:39","slug":"sphero-launches-tiny-50-sphero-mini-robotic-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/sphero-launches-tiny-50-sphero-mini-robotic-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphero Launches Tiny $50 &#8216;Sphero Mini&#8217; Robotic Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphero.com\">Sphero<\/a>, known for its line of robotic balls and droids, today launched the &#36;50 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphero.com\/sphero-mini\">Sphero Mini<\/a>, the company&#8217;s most affordable toy yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sphero Mini measures in at about 1.25 inches, making it similar in size to a ping pong ball. It&#8217;s essentially a tiny version of the original Sphero robotic ball, and it&#8217;s controlled the same way &#8212; through an app on your iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56804i1-hFw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Sphero Mini connects to an iPhone using Bluetooth and can be used for playing games, learning to code, playing with pets, and more, thanks to a built-in gyroscope, accelerometer, and LED light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/spheromini1-800x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593620\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSphero has designed a series of games that use the Mini as a controller mechanism, and with a future update, it will be programmable using the Sphero Edu app. Unique to the Mini is a Face Drive app feature that lets it be controlled via head movements and facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/spheromini2-800x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"172\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593621\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSphero Mini can glow in millions of colors with the LED lights, and it has a range of 10 meters. The battery in the Sphero Mini lasts for 45 minutes before needing to be recharged, and charging takes an hour. There are also interchangeable shells in a range of colors that can be purchased for the Mini, as well as a pins and cones accessory pack.<\/p>\n<p>Sphero Mini can be <a href=\"https:\/\/store.sphero.com\/collections\/sphero-mini\">purchased from the Sphero website<\/a> for &#36;49.99.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/sphero\/\">Sphero<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/sphero-mini-robotic-ball.2073919\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=mmOLu7UDiB4:PGZAL0MU66A:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=mmOLu7UDiB4:PGZAL0MU66A:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/mmOLu7UDiB4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sphero, known for its line of robotic balls and droids, today launched the &#36;50 Sphero Mini, the company&#8217;s most affordable toy yet. Sphero Mini measures in at about 1.25 inches, making it similar in size to a ping pong ball. It&#8217;s essentially a tiny version of the original Sphero robotic ball, and it&#8217;s controlled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":409452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-409451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}