Sphero - Control has come along way since Flowol...

Grabbed from an Edugeek post, Sphero looks like a lot of fun with, hopefully, a lot of learning too.

 As taken from the edugeek post:

Occasionally you come across a piece of tech that makes you think... and then very rapidly makes you think "where can I get one?!", for team CP this has happened with the discovery of the Sphero.

Remember using LOGO to program that pen wielding Turtle? Imagine if you will that Turtle evolved through the troublesome Teenage Years (where it picked up a penchant for martial arts and pizza), then evolved further; this is getting close to Sphero.

You can program it
You can create Apps for it
You can race it
You can augment reality
You can control Apps with it

The below links go into more depth as to its capabilities within education.

OrbBasic 
Having a Ball with Code- Can Sphero inspire the next generation of programmers?