THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE…
Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens opens next month and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited. One of the cool things about it is that they’ve taken a more traditional approach on the effects that relies less on CGI. Keeping in the spirit of this, a new droid was developed for the movie known as BB8. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a spherical gyro stabilized droid with a floating head on top of its spherical body — I anticipate it will be the new R2D2. What’s cool is that they physically built a working vehicle of BB8 for the movie which is not only awesome, but is also quite an ingenious engineering accomplishment.
So, enter the Sphero BB8 app enabled droid. This became available during “Force Friday” along with all of the new Star Wars toys and quickly sold out in the matter of hours. When I became aware of it, I knew that I wanted one and thought it would be a fun piece of hardware to provide a review of. Since “Force Friday,” it’s become Continue reading