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Sony seems to make cool devices like this one. Or like the ePaper one for $700 [0]. But price seems too high for them to achieve a wide success.

[0] https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.sol...

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That's a sad thing about sony products. I know they can justify the prices due to high R&D costs but it makes it difficult for the average consumer to purchase their products (I'm fairly sure I'm not their target). For example, I went to the Sony showroom in Japan in 2006/7(?) and they had a cool bluetooth speaker that rolled around based on the music it was playing. The problem is it was ~$350.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Rolly

That's the one!

> the Rolly Choreographer software produces far better results when it analyzes tracks and creates motion files before loading them onto Rolly

I like how the staff just happened to not tell me about that part (thinking back I'm almost positive the demo had pre-loaded tracks)

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