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Title: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: TechMan on July 02, 2013, 02:09:44 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5q1iw5Oszg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5q1iw5Oszg)

http://www.gosphero.com/ (http://www.gosphero.com/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXcVV27TJE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXcVV27TJE)
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: French G. on July 02, 2013, 02:22:22 PM: Scale it up to about softball size, camera, explosive, shrapnel. You could entertain Marines for hours with those.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: MillCreek on July 02, 2013, 02:35:29 PM: I would use it to remind the cat as to her place in the scheme of things.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 02, 2013, 02:44:30 PM: Do not taunt Sphero Ball.

Brad
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Kingcreek on July 02, 2013, 03:36:49 PM: Use it in place of the mystical indicator on a big oversize party Ouija board. Nobody has to know its being controlled by a smartassphone instead of mystical spirits from another dimension.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: CNYCacher on July 02, 2013, 03:48:14 PM: Quote from: adively on July 02, 2013, 02:09:44 PM
Anybody see a use for this?

Taking money out of my pocket? WANT!
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Viking on July 02, 2013, 03:53:31 PM: I can see many uses for this. Most of them dishonorable :angel:.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: bedlamite on July 02, 2013, 04:02:53 PM: cool toy. Not $130 cool though.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on July 02, 2013, 04:10:56 PM: Quote from: bedlamite on July 02, 2013, 04:02:53 PM
cool toy. Not $130 cool though.

Meh. Thanks to Bush and Obama, it's $130 worth of cool now.

See how they make products more valuable with their policies?
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: AJ Dual on July 02, 2013, 11:14:26 PM: If it could detonate on command, I would be interested. I'd pay extra if it had a directional self-forging warhead.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Lee on July 04, 2013, 11:17:53 AM: After lengthy consideration...no.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: 230RN on July 04, 2013, 11:22:08 AM: Miniaturize it more and put it in a golf ball for putting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRaghQHIYQ
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on July 04, 2013, 11:51:00 AM: Dog toy. I doubt it's truely dog proof though. Idiots, dogs and small children will always come up with something to get around it.

Also, fun way to mess with people.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: rcnixon on July 08, 2013, 11:30:44 PM: Remote control ben-wa?

Russ
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 09, 2013, 12:15:43 AM: Quote from: MillCreek on July 02, 2013, 02:35:29 PM
I would use it to remind the cat as to her place in the scheme of things.

So there is a use for this useless piece of *expletive deleted*it....
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Ryan in Maine on July 09, 2013, 12:42:16 AM: Could be handy for SAR as an easily deployed option searching pockets in various rubble.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: AJ Dual on July 09, 2013, 01:35:15 AM: Quote from: Ryan in Maine on July 09, 2013, 12:42:16 AM
Could be handy for SAR as an easily deployed option searching pockets in various rubble.

Only if it's desired to keep on searching ever downward, then never get the ball-bot back. The physics for a self-propelled ball faced with barriers/obstacles with a height of 1/2 the ball's diameter or more are pretty unforgiving. =D
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Ryan in Maine on July 09, 2013, 02:57:18 AM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko)
+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Ball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Ball)

:laugh: I'll find a way to make them all-terrain and cheaper!
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 09, 2013, 09:23:12 AM: Quote from: Ryan in Maine on July 09, 2013, 12:42:16 AM
Could be handy for SAR as an easily deployed option searching pockets in various rubble.

I don't think it has a camera?
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: MechAg94 on July 09, 2013, 11:07:37 AM: Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on July 02, 2013, 04:10:56 PM
Meh. Thanks to Bush and Obama, it's $130 worth of cool now.

See how they make products more valuable with their policies?
Yeah, but it isn't $240 worth of pudding cool.
http://youtu.be/Aharq3PFX54
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Pharmacology on October 15, 2013, 01:18:52 AM: So uh... these are on sale at Woot.

http://tech.woot.com/offers/sphero-app-controlled-robotic-ball

I may have a problem.

LOL
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: Ryan in Maine on October 15, 2013, 05:59:06 AM: Also, DARPA stole my ideas for modifying them. =(

They paid iRobot to develop them years ago! Those smug DARPA bastards.
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: seeker_two on October 15, 2013, 06:33:11 AM: Depends....how much detcord can it hold?....
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: CNYCacher on October 18, 2013, 12:00:14 PM: Quote from: Pharmacology on October 15, 2013, 01:18:52 AM
So uh... these are on sale at Woot.

http://tech.woot.com/offers/sphero-app-controlled-robotic-ball

I may have a problem.

LOL

I must know. How much was it going for?
Title: Re: Anybody see a use for this - Sphero Ball
Post by: TechMan on October 18, 2013, 12:45:09 PM: Quote from: CNYCacher on October 18, 2013, 12:00:14 PM
I must know. How much was it going for?

IIRC Under $50.