So the Sony Rolly is coming to Japan on the 29th of September. It’s a rolling speaker light up…thing…
The device is essentially a wireless speaker/audio player with stereo speakers, with an internal flash memory of 1GB and about 5 hours of battery life. It can also link to your computer via Bluetooth, allowing it to receive new dance patterns and songs. That’s not all: there’s tactile volume control (control the volume by turning the unit clockwise) and an alarm clock. Above all else, it also dances and grooves along with you and your music, as you can witness in the below video.
It’s going to cost about 350$. There is currently no word on a US release…but I’m honestly not sure why anyone would want this thing, so I don’t know that it will matter.
So this is what Sony comes up with after years of research with the Aibo?
As with most Japanese oddity releases, you just shake your head and say “this is what happens when you drop two atomic bombs on someone”.