Rolly

One of the persistent rumours regarding the forthcoming Sony Rolly Walkman music player is, that the player will be egg-shaped.

As a curiousity it seems, that Sony has a history of designing egg-shaped consumer electronics. At least in the mid 90’s Sony introduced a remote controller concept for its audio-receiver lineup. The main idea behind this remote was, that some of the features of the receiver could be controlled by waving the remote. Oh yeah, did I remember to mention, that also Sony Rolly MP3 player is supposed to be equipped with motion sensor?

Well why not - egg is a nice and organic shape after all!

The picture source: www.dvdremotecontrols.com

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Sony Has released today a teaser site of the forthcoming Rolly music player. At the teaser site you can look through rather abstract videos, which supposedly portray the character of the forthcoming new device.

If you prefer Youtube to the rather heavy Flash-based teaser-page, you can find the videoclips uploaded to the Youtube here

The “keywords” for the concept are listed on the site are as follows: abstraction, peace, small, motion, chill, lucky, shuffle, music, open, communication, style, chill, peace, share music, kurukuru, communication. As for the moment, we can only guess the meaning behind these words. At least it seems, that Sony is really aiming for something original with this one.

Unfortunately the teaser site, namer Rolly-Show does not give any specific information about what Rolly actually is, so we will still have to rely on the existing rumours on that. At the teaser site Sony is also marketing a “Rolly party”, which will be held in Japan on the September 10th. I would guess, that the actual device will be launched by this date as well.

Link to the Rolly-Show flash-teaser site
Link to the japanese SonyStyle page on Rolly (translated by Google)

Seems that we haven’t heard the last from Sony on what comes to the competition for the global MP3 player markets. Rumours have leaked, that Sony would be releasing it’s new Walkman player concept named Rolly in the coming IFA expo held in Berlin 31.8-5.9.

According to the available rumours, the new player would be designed particularly to support social activity and fit particularly well for partying. The player will be egg shaped and equipped with a built in speaker. I addition the player should contain a motion sensor, enabling it to react to movement with flashing lights and changing music.

The player was seen briefly in action on a video at DailyMotion. The leaked video was from a French house group Justice was however soon removed. The picture above is a snapshot from the clip. The player to be introduced on the IFA expo should hit the shops by the coming holiday season.

Source: electronista.com