{"id":27663,"date":"2016-01-11T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=27663"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:56:09","slug":"control-sphero-bb-8-via-new-wearable-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/01\/11\/control-sphero-bb-8-via-new-wearable-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Sphero BB-8 Via New Wearable Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-new-wearable-lets-you-control-spheros-bb-8-using-the-1750989688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27664\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/giz_bb8_wearable.jpg\" alt=\"giz_bb8_wearable\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/giz_bb8_wearable.jpg 384w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/giz_bb8_wearable-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-new-wearable-lets-you-control-spheros-bb-8-using-the-1750989688\">Gizmodo<\/a> has posted an article regarding the development of a new wearable piece of tech\u00a0from Sphero to control their popular BB-8. The wrist-worn device uses simple hand gestures to control the rolling droid rather than relying on an app on a smartphone. It will be available later this year as standalone purchase or bundled with BB-8. Also stated in their article is Sphero&#8217;s plan to release a weathered\/battle-damaged version of the droid as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo has posted an article regarding the development of a new wearable piece of tech\u00a0from Sphero to control their popular BB-8. The wrist-worn device uses simple hand gestures to control the rolling droid rather than relying on an app on a smartphone. It will be available later this year as standalone purchase or bundled with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/01\/11\/control-sphero-bb-8-via-new-wearable-tech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Control Sphero BB-8 Via New Wearable Tech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,9,136],"tags":[1444,1953,1954,1838,1392],"class_list":["post-27663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clothes-and-accessories","category-collecting","category-games","tag-bb-8","tag-gizmodo","tag-remote-controlled","tag-sphero","tag-the-force-awakens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27665,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions\/27665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}