What Every Guy Needs: Smart Balls

Memo to FIFA (and the England team, whose execrable performance in South Africa still has me shaking with anger). See what technology can do to your balls? Gearbox is a start-up that makes smart toys "how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones," and the first element of their app-based stable is a smart ball that can be controlled by an Android handset.

It's a robotic sphere consisting of a 3-D printed spherical shell and a custom circuit board inside. But it's the apps that sound the most fun...