Orbotix: Where Mobile Apps and the Toy Industry Collide A startup that invented the world's first smartphone-controlled ball and that's just the beginning.

Consider the ball. It's a toy to children, rolling prey to dogs and a crucial instrument to athletes.

But for Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson, the 28-year-old founders of Denver-based Orbotix, it's the pinnacle of robotics and a prime example of how smartphones will one day interact with the world.