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Sony Rolly dancing MP3 player

Rollin', dancin' music thang

As shown by The Pretender, the truly impressive effects are to be had by creating your own routines, but they're not half complex and time consuming things to set up, if our efforts were anything to go by. Luckily, the Choreographer software includes a 3D Rolly animation so you can get an idea of how your moves will look without having to load them onto the Rolly and try them out for real.

Sony Rolly

Choreograph like Arlene Philips
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Apart from being more visually impressive, manual routines can be arranged to keep the ear flaps open which makes things sound better too.

If you can't be bothered to design your own routines fear not, dance 'move' files can be downloaded from – and uploaded to – the Sony web site and imported onto you Rolly.

Sony doubtless hope that there is a whole community of programmers out there burning the midnight oil in single-minded pursuit of the Rolly groove.

To avoid it running riot and terrifying the neighbours, the Rolly needs to be re-set to dance mode at the end of each track or after seven minutes of continuous motion.

Sony Rolly

Set up your songs
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On an altogether more mundane level, the Rolly can also be pressed into service as a Bluetooth remote speaker. It works perfectly well in this role but you have to forgo the dancing and strobe show – it just sits on your desk pumping out your tunes and looking a little apologetic.

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