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The wait has just begun. We saw the first (viral) video of it last week.
The wait is almost over. Word has it that there is a Rolly release party in Japan on the 10th.
So what is it? A Wii for music? The new (tiny) Aibo platform? I’ll try to remain objective, but I’m loving it. The speaker caps controlled by solenoids (or servos or electromagnets), the speakers, the rgb strips, the dual independent wheels and the potential for robot choreography are all pretty slick.
Updated: New, full length commercial. Switched the embedded video.
Thanks, everyone, for pointing me to the Rolly. Yes, you are right. It will be impossible for me to resist purchasing a Rolly. Let’s hope it’s hackable!
Engadget, Engadget, Engadget Again, and Wikipedia.
Travis Shirk recently announced Mesk 0.1.2, a GTK+ Media Player. There isn’t a Windows build, yet, but I’m excited about it’s ability to change your Jabber status message to indicate which song or audio file you are listening to. Source and Binaries here!
Travis also mentioned SCons to me - a build tool that is apparently much more powerful (and expressive) than make, yet less verbose and more readable than ant. Looks very interesting. The SCons team is preparing a 1.0 and one of their members has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program.
We’ve been doing our own testing around the office and it’s dead-accurate.