Author: Kyle Wiggers / Source: VentureBeat
It’s been quite the journey for Sphero, the Colorado company best known for its app-enabled balls that teach coding, perform tricks, and make for great cat toys. In the roughly eight years since it announced its eponymous product, Sphero has launched an education-focused lineup ( Sprk) and miniature Sphero models (Sphero Mini) and collaborated with Disney on licensed products like Ultimate Lightning McQueen, R2D2, BB-9E, and Spider-Man.
But after focusing the bulk of its efforts on robotics for years, the company is now expanding to new ventures. At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, it demoed Specdrums, app-controlled rings that turn color into sound.
Sphero acquired the Kickstarter-backed Colorado company behind Specdrums in June. At the time, Sphero said it would release a newer version of the rings in early 2019. It’s making good on that promise: Specdrums will hit online retailers at $65 for one ring and $99 for two rings on January 7, with an expected ship date of January 15. In-store availability will follow in spring 2019.
“Sphero recognizes Specdrums as an opportunity to engage kids at the intersection of arts, math, science, and technology, building a parallel framework between coding and music composition,” Sphero CEO Paul Berberian said in a statement.
There’s more to Specdrums than their cute plastic exteriors would suggest….
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