TOSY and Justin Bieber announce mRobo: we go hands-on, dance-off (video) (Engadget)
Beethoven’s Fifth. Michelangelo’s Pieta. Plato’s Republic. Cornerstones of
human civilization, to be sure, but they all pale in comparison to what we saw
today at CES: TOSY’s new mRobo robot, inspired by none other than the Cultural
Colossus of our time, Justin Bieber. The Vietnamese manufacturer and pubescent
Prince have just taken the wraps off their latest collaboration: a petite,
portable speaker-robot that dances — nay, _transcends_ — just like his only
slightly larger progenitor counterpart. When in speaker mode, the mRomo weighs
in at just 3.3 pounds, stands a little under eight inches tall, and boasts 2GB
of internal memory. Its integrated speaker pumps out the jams at bass levels
40Hz, but the real magic happens once the music starts playing, automatically
prompting the system to transform into an 18-inch tall robot and start
dancing. Unfortunately, the bot is still in prototype mode, but it’s expected
to retail for about $200 when it launches during the fall of 2012.
Today, though, we were lucky enough to get a sneak peak of the mRobo, courtesy
of a mic’d-up Messiah with sweepy bangs and a leather jacket. Upon taking the
stage to roars of applause and …
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