{"id":960,"date":"2016-01-05T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/soon-you-will-manipulate-bb-8-using-the-force\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:54:46","slug":"soon-you-will-manipulate-bb-8-using-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/soon-you-will-manipulate-bb-8-using-the-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon you will manipulate BB-8 using the Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forcebandthumb\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA1LzIxL0ZvcmNlQmFuZFRoLjAxMWYxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/ab40a5e6\/e67\/ForceBandThumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Soon+you+will+manipulate+BB-8+using+the+Force&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fforce-band-for-bb-8-by-sphero-ces%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fforce-band-for-bb-8-by-sphero-ces%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Everyone knows that BB-8 stole the show in <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>. But the tiny doppelganger toy from Sphero is no slouch in the real world, either. BB-8 by Sphero sold out last fall, and has been entertaining kids and adults for months \u2014 especially since Christmas<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the the one thing this cute rotund droid is missing? The Force. That changes this fall, when Sphero ships the new Force Band controler.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/29\/force-awakens-novel\/\">27 &#8216;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#8217; questions answered by the novel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Introduced at CES, The Force Band for BB-8 by Sphero is a wrist-wearable device that lets you put away your iPhone. Now you can have precise gesture control over the adorable monocular soccer ball of a droid. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/force-band-for-bb-8-by-sphero-ces\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/robot\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Robot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ces\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ces<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gadgets\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gadgets<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/star-wars-the-force-awakens\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Star Wars The Force Awakens<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/gGiVHabPTD8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Everyone knows that BB-8 stole the show in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But the tiny doppelganger toy from Sphero is no slouch in the real world, either. BB-8 by Sphero sold out last fall, and has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/soon-you-will-manipulate-bb-8-using-the-force\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,206,1,488,364,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ces","category-gadgets","category-other","category-robot","category-star-wars-the-force-awakens","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}