Sphero at CES – Contact Jugglers are obsolete
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
$129 US, more info at gosphero.com, previously on MoM.
$129 US, more info at gosphero.com, previously on MoM.
ZOMG! I’m just going to write it once but you can pretend it is repeated for about ten pages. Robotic ball, controlled by your smartphone. And it glows. It’s like all your CJ glow pron dreams come true at once. Oh yes it is. Don’t try and say otherwise.
GoSphero’s Channel has lots more videos of it scaring kids and chasing cats and that sort of thing, or you can check out their website: gosphero.com
I for one welcome our new robotic…. etc.
A while ago, A nice Brazilian man gave me an orange ball, and in return I promised a video of me using said ball.
I was slack, and took ages. Sorry about that… ANyway, this video also gives a taste of what is coming up in the workshops I’m organising around the UK at the moment.
Nik makes awesome videos. you should get him to make yours too. SRSLY. Such a good eye, and really able to express through his editing. Love it.
Once you get past the pure level of ‘abstraction’ in Davids dancing, you begin to notice that some tiny moments stand out as visually beautiful illusions or effects. In the 2nd part of this clip (starting around 3min) the focus changes to his ‘battle’ tricks, and we can see a more clear demonstration of skill and ability. With a wild range of his movement, everything is locked together by this super-controlled internal flow, the speed of all his arms and legs are moving together to create a sustained tempo and he is showing us crazy variations on a lot of old-school waving, tutting, botting, strobing, liquid, popping, boogaloo techniques.
For me, no-one has influenced my own sense of dance and movement more than David Bernal. In the early days of the Ministry of Manipulation, we would sit around in the Hangar and Jea9, Colin, Ed, Drew and I would watch his videos and be blown away, then we would run off to juggle with a billion new ideas about movement and the way things can connect together.
Detours isn’t retail anymore (only exists on the pirate bay) and lots of other clips from the two-Dvd box set are available. Check out : The Floor is my Canvas #2 (I prefer #1, but it isn’t on youtube….)
It has been too long since he has been seen around here.

Wow, seriously, Wow. This pace of development of technology is amazing.
I see no reason why this Bot would not be capable of juggling balls or passing balls with a human partner.
MoM prediction – it will happen within 1 year. Get ready for retirement all you mortal human jugglers.
Bonus XKCD!
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These 2 quad rotors can juggle 1 ball while flying. These robots will learn to juggle 3 balls before you learn to fly.
Lets face it, we human jugglers are nearly obsolete. via The Lady Ada
An insanely detailed, highly configurable juggling simulator (for those of who who are into this sort of thing)

Jugglers are (almost) Obsolete part III. This robot can juggle 2 ping pong balls on a bat and it’s doing it the clever way.
Really impressive – Skynet is coming.
Enjoy, MoM.