There was be alot speculation about the upcoming Sony Rolly robotic music player. If you haven’t heard…where have you been?  Bluetooth streaming, programmable movement, amazing sound, and a heck of a design.

Rolly has two stereo 20mm active speakers with an output of 1.2W each, but the best part is its movement. Rolly will move all over your room, roaming and playing your favorite tunes via 1BG flash memory or streaming from your PC via Bluetooth!

While moving to the music, Rolly also lights to the tunes with blue, orange, and green LEDs that bounce right along as Rolly does. It’s volume controls are on the rotators, whose movements can also be customized with the “Motion Editor” software that comes with it.

All in all, this is one of the most exciting audio accessories to come this year
Rolly Specifications:
• Size: Approximately 104 x 65 x 65mm
• Weight: Approximately 300g
• Speakers: 20mm installed capacity: 1.2W + 1.2W
• Frequency range: 20-20,000Hz
• Interface: USB terminal: MiniB/Hi-Speed
• Memory: 1GB flash (built in)
• File compatibility: MP3, ATRAC, AAC
• Power: Rechargeable Lithium ion battery / USB
• Battery power duration: 3-5 hours depending on use
• Corresponding Bluetooth profile: A2DP and AVRCP
• Corresponding Bluetooth codec: SBC and MP3

Rolly comes with:
• USB cable (75cm)
• Lithium ion battery
• Sonicstage CP
• Motion Editor (Japanese)
• Stand
• Manual (Japanese)

You can order it here for $499.00

Every time I rip a CD and wait for the painstaking process to be done (listening to the horrific grinding spinning noise the whole time), I think about how many CDs I’ve collected over the years and conclude that I’ll probably be listening to CDs even when everyone else has all their music stored on holographic jewels around their necks (-_-;). Digital storage offers so many advantages, but unless you’re a real young’un, you likely have much of your music collection stored in boxes, not a hard drive. There are actually services available for people who want to have someone else transfer their entire music collections in one go (and who don’t want to spend a weekend in a ripping frenzy) but they’re expensive. RipDigital, probably the best known of these companies, charges $199 for 200 CDs, enough to buy you 199 brand-new iTunes tracks.

Of course, those guys at RipDigital don’t have employees sitting there ripping each CD one by one; they’ve got the big honking machines that you throw a whole box of CDs into which spit out mp3s. The large capacity rippers tended to be prohibitively expensive for home use, not to mention being bigger than my washing machine, but a new one, the Pico MP3 ripper, weighs just 6.5 lbs. and costs $699. Yes, you could get about 700 CDs converted by RipDigital for you for that much, but the Pico will let you start your own neighborhood or family racket, letting you rip 25 CDs in a go, totally hands-free. The Pico will rip into mp3, wav, aiff, or flac files, and will retrieve all your CD track information from CDDB just like an application like iTunes will do.

The Pico is also a disc duplicator, so you can make up to 12 CDs or 6 DVDs an hour, a big advantage if you’re the type who likes to share the “wealth” when you’ve compiled all your home movies onto DVD.

The Pico super-duper drive connects through USB 2.0, and rips right into any home computer. The $699 price includes 50 blank recordable DVDs and a lifetime discount on Disk Makers other compatible blank media.

It was developed by Korean company Robo3, which makes several other robotic contraptions including a robot bar-tender and a dinosaur. The R7 will set you back a cool $5,250. But that seems very reasonable considering the “respect” you’ll get while trotting down the road.