Sony rolls out Rolly in US

Sony has just made available its Rolly portable audio player in the US, slapping a price tag of $400 on it in the process. This definitely puts it away from the impulse purchase category, but I think it will catch on pretty much considering how this is a novelty gadget. I mean, your iPod or Zune certainly won’t be able to groove according to the tune it is currently playing, right? The Rolly is able to do this, featuring specially programmed choreographed moves that will definitely spruce up any party or group meet-up. It has a battery life of 4 hours (when both motion and audio playback is involved), but will last an hour longer if you disable motion. I would have liked to see its 2GB internal memory being augmented by some sort of memory card slot, but here’s to Rolly 2.0 (if it ever comes out). Wonder what took Sony so long to release this, considering it already comes in black in other countries.

Edwin Kee
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