When Sphero released the BB8 Star Wars toy last year, it was well received. The mini-spherical robot was a bit of a hit with fans of The Force Awakens, both because it looked exactly like a shrunken ...

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. Obi Wan is long gone, but his voice comes to me nonetheless, reminding me to be patient and ...

Sphero’s Star Wars BB8 droid is one of the coolest smartphone accessories out there and it’s about to get a whole lot cooler thanks to a new wearable that mimics the force and allows you to control ...

Sphero's Force Band for BB-8 is the best example of going above-and-beyond the call of duty I've ever seen in a Star Wars toy. And I've seen a lot of Star Wars toys. While there are some mightily ...

The impetus, Sphero said, was unfinished business. The BB-8 is by far Sphero’s most successful product — last year on launch day, the company sold more than 2,000 of the $150 units “every hour.” But ...

Among the inevitable avalanche of merchandise that accompanied the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens last year, Sphero's little app-controlled BB-8 was a clear standout. An instant ...

Sphero's new battle-weathered BB-8 and a new wearable remote to control it are here at last and pretty darn fun. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...

Bored with controlling your new Sphero BB-8 with a smartphone or tablet? Don’t fret — you’ll soon be able to do it from your wrist. That’s thanks to a new wearable companion that the Star Wars: The ...

Sphero's smartphone-controlled BB-8 droid (from the new Star Wars film, of course) is one of the cooler toys we've seen. The company's looking to add an extra level of interactivity to the droid by ...

When Sphero released its BB-8 robotic ball, co-founder and chief scientist Adam Wilson knew that he was onto something. He and his team had partnered with Lucasfilm to create the wirelessly connected ...

As far as beeping, rolling robots go in the Star Wars universe, BB-8 did much to steal R2-D2's thunder in The Force Awakens. Last year Sphero gave kids (and big kids) the chance to own one of the ...