http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/video-japans-new-ball-shaped-drone-wows-crowds-tokyo

I'm 90% sure that I NEED this.

That is cool

Umm, watch the movie 'Real Genius' that came out in 1985. You will see a young Val Kilmer playing with one of these in his dorm room. That was 26 years ago.

You can see it at the 1:56 point of this video (or as luck would have it - in the screen capture below)

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That's awesome. Can you imagine the fun you could have late at night in Roswell, NM?

Or at that Naval Installation just outside Honolulu, proper?

(Thank goodness the inventors of that marvel had their political priorities realigned back about four years before "Roswell" . . .)

I would probably decorate it first.
http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/2/23/IT-O_negtd.jpg

I'm thinkin' camo on top and blue--interspersed with white--on the bottom.
Depending, of course on the Virtual Terrain...or Searain . . .

I would probably decorate it first.

HA! I KNEW that thing reminded me of something. The sound effects would also be a must.

I'll wait for the Kino 2 or 3 thats at least 50 percent smaller. Kind of hard to spy on people with the first generation. Lol

I want to see this version in a movie floating "inconspicuously" in a room as the evil-doers discuss their plot without seeing the giant, humming sphere 4 feet away.