Sony shows rolling music player by Delia Cruceru

A new gadget called Rolly was launched on Monday by Sony. It's an egg shaped music player that rotates, it can flap its ends and flashes with colored lights synchronized with the music. The dancing music player will be available for now only in Japan by September 29 at the price of $353. The gadget is so small that it can fit in your palm and it has a standard 1 GB internal memory, a stereo speaker and a five hour battery life. Sony said in a statement that "users will be able to program the Bluetooth-capable product on a PC using software that analyzes music and produces choreography to match and then sends the programs to the Rolly." The device playbacks MP3, Atrac, or AAC songs or it can receive music streamed by a Bluetooth connection. The egg shaped gizmo has only 1 button an on/off switch, the rest of the functions are controlled by a pair of rings that circle its body. With one ring you can move from track to track or album to album, while other one controls the volume, and they're connected to motors that enable the Rolly to scoot around a table-top in tune to the music being played. You can program the device to have a desired choreography by a special PC program, or you can download packaged moves to tunes from a Sony website.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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