Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Sphero ball in action. Image: Sohero. You might have seen Sphero, a toy robotics company, in the news recently. Their programmable robotic ball was recently used by the creators of the newest Star ...

Many parents want to teach their children how to code, but do not know how to go about doing it. Sphero, the company behind the BB-8 toy robot based on the droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has ...

This is a software world: things we used to do with hardware are now handled by low-cost processors. But that means we need more and more developers to write and maintain that code, but where are ...

Colorado-based startup company Sphero unveiled the Sphero Bolt on Monday, which is an upgraded version of the classic Sphero and the Sphero Spark+. The Sphero Bolt is built in with an 8 x 8 LED screen ...

Robots used to feature mostly in feared dystopian futures. These days they've become a shorthand for anything electronic with a personality. Even though Sphero isn't technically a robot at all ...

Sphero has announced another rolling ball robot called the Sphero Bolt. The Sphero Bolt follows in the company’s ethos of having a commitment to education-based products, but it comes with some ...

The toy that teaches programming has been updated with an LCD display. The toy that teaches programming has been updated with an LCD display. is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by John Cook on Aug 20, 2012 at 1:08 am December 7, 2014 at 8:27 am ...

Over the past year, Sphero has been busy teaming up with Disney on connected toys for film franchises like Star Wars, Spider-Man and Cars. But today the company is launching a product that takes it ...

Though Sphero released its first rolling robot way back in 2011, the company is probably best known for the BB-8 droid it released before Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens hit cinemas in late ...

Sphero, perhaps best known for its insanely adorable BB-8 robot, has given its SPRK robot an upgrade. The first SPRK was introduced last year as part of the company’s initiative “to put a robot in ...