article_snippet.sent: The toy by Orbotix is controlled by a smartphone app using a Bluetooth connection and allows users to make The toy by Orbotix go in any direction
article_snippet.sent: The toy by Orbotix Orbotix is controlled by a smartphone app using a Bluetooth connection and allows users to make The toy by Orbotix go in any direction
article_snippet.sent: It’s related to the default egg-race-style self-propelled double wheel device or the walk-in-balloon which anyone can try,’ he said, referring to a zorb, which humans walk inside and push against the side to move along.
article_snippet.sent: It may be able to stay upright easily by depending on a gyroscope that tells it which way is up and use an accelerometer to monitor motion, much like many smartphone games.
article_snippet.sent: movements are consistent with this, such as a tendency to move in the direction of travel.
article_snippet.sent: The wheels inside work like a hamster running inside a ball and never leave Sphero's surface, so it can turn corners at high speed.