Sphero

We are trying to get a new toy. It is called a sphero. It is really awesome, and probably one of the best toys ever invented. A sphero is a waterproof robotic ball that you control with your smart phone or tablet. It can change to millions of different colors, and has lots of different apps that you can download for it. For some of it's games, sphero uses augmented reality, like in the game, the Rolling Dead, where animated zombies are popping up around your house, and trying to attack sphero. While looking at you smart device, and rolling sphero around, trying to get the zombies with fire balls, sphero will be actually rolling around on the floor of your house, fighting invisible zombies! The main sphero app is also really fun. When you first get your sphero and hook it up to your device, it will only be able to go at the slowest speed, and have not that many colors that you can change it to. But as you play games with it, and go on missions, you can unlock cores. With cores, you can unlock new speeds and colors and boosts. Sphero has lots of accessories that you can put on it. The nubby cover gives your sphero more traction in the water, and also makes it more all terrain, so that you can take it outside. The turbo cover, well, as you may have guessed, makes it faster and more agile. The sphero chariot is pretty much just a chariot that is sphero powered. You just put the sphero in a little pocket in front, and off you go! Now, if it was just a chariot, it would eventually get pretty boring. But this chariot is compatible with legos! You can just build on attachments for it, like maybe spikes on the wheels, or a little guy to drive it! And lastly, if you have access to a 3D printer, their are tons of accessories that you can 3D print, on Thingiverse. There are also a couple of multiplayer games that your whole family can play with only one sphero. One of the best ones is called color grab. Your smart device will tell you a color that the sphero will flash. The sphero will start spinning around and flashing different colors. When the sphero is the color that it says on the smart device, you have to grab the sphero as fast as you can. I think that sphero is very fun and everyone should get one.