Isn’t it amazing! A ball acting as a robot and being controlled by your Android device. Yes, this is intriguingly true. Thanks to the today’s technology when a small ball has also become smart and intelligent enough to understand signals and act and react accordingly. It’s a Sphero Robot ball which acts as per your directions with the help of your Android device.

This scientific edifice is a brain work of Colorado based Orbotix who adopted the scientific maxium of the law of motion endowing many tiny plastic balls with many accelerometers that can turn and dip your smartphones and send it zooming around the floor in a much controlled way.

This magical ball, when not kept for charging is seen rolling around on any of the flat surfaces, cutting across all the obstacles and even people. There are many ways which can send this Sphero into action. The best is with the help of Orbotix-developed UI, which is an Android or iOS device. It can be used on any of the standard joystick interface. The most intriguing part of the same is its drawing capacity, which can help you easily create a pattern with your finger and then Sphero can then easily imitate it seconds later.

RGB color wheels can also be easily turned on your device which can make it very convenient for you to tweak the internal LED to allow Sphero light up in thousands colors.

This ball is created of a Polycarbonate shell constituting Bluetooth radio used preferably for receiving and sending signals on your Smartphones. It also has LED light which can be lit as required. User can also make Sphero turn around the path and even move through barriers and blockways.

Any user can make use of Sphero to move around the room following certain predestined path and even navigate through barriers and blockways.

Also for giving a complete live experience, there is a camera fixed which is yet another option whose principle functionality lies on the bases of “Augumented reality”. If you place your phone in any direction, you can see and touch the objects and you can se through camera Sphero has started rolling in that direction. Much better is you can also use co-ordinated graphs or even a blank screen to find its movements. Sphero comes with a wirefree induction based cradle which it uses for charging. Fun games, golf and even cricket can make Sohero an exclusive fun device.

Now Sphero configured apps are available in the Google play Store. Several different games have been created which can present many Sphero’s capabilities. Developers can also utilize SDK capabilities to develop and create their own Sphero challenges.

A Sphero must be costly for you but when you observe your children and pets chasing this gadget of techno maginificant you are sure to see the same come back to life.