Sega Toys' dancing I-Spin: like an I-Dog with a woofer orifice

by Thomas Ricker, posted Mar 7th 2008 at 8:19AM

Move over Rolly, there's a cheaper, craplasticer bot ready to stomp out your game. Sega Toys just announced their ¥5,250 ($51) I-Spin dancing robot. Apparently it responds to ambient sounds by rolling around and flipping its ears in time with the beat. After that novelty wears thin, you can directly attach the creature to any audio source where it will live out its remaining years as an external speaker.

Filed under: Robots

Tags: i-spin, japan, robot, sega toys, SegaToys

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Lemmiwinks @ Mar 7th 2008 8:26AM

This looks like the spaceship in Pikmin...

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LondonConsultant @ Mar 7th 2008 8:50AM

But I doubt that spaceship had a woofer orifice...

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SOOPERGOOMAN @ Mar 7th 2008 8:31AM

Move over sony rolly. patent suit pending......

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Cesar Liedke @ Mar 7th 2008 8:50AM

Looks like Mokona from Magical Knight Rayearth, xxxHolic and Tsubasa Chronicles anime series...

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Lucretius @ Mar 7th 2008 8:56AM

Fucking. Disturbed.

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Shane @ Mar 7th 2008 8:59AM

A woofer orfice is fine as long as it doesn't drop little nuggets that I have to clean up...

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silverblackvoid @ Mar 7th 2008 9:22AM

for its price this device is not that bad. why the sarcasm engadget? i guess thats bcoz its not made by ap***

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Hax Or @ Mar 7th 2008 10:41AM

emo alert! ID-10-T detected!

Apple pwns you. Nuff said.

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superfresh @ Mar 7th 2008 9:37AM

I think it's fine. Most new music is shit anyway.

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Pauly @ Mar 7th 2008 9:44AM

For dogs we prefer Aibo or RobuDog.
http://www.robotliving.com/2007/07/11/robudog-vs-aibo/
This dancing dog speaker looks silly.

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M @ Mar 7th 2008 2:14PM

looks like a faceless pikachu with an extra large anus.
the sony one looks like a dancing vibrator. with added flaps!

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keslers @ Apr 19th 2008 8:19AM

I actually won one of theses things from PC Mag. What were they thinking?

I'm amazed they thought this thing would sell... Strange

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