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This flying orb toy comes boxed with instructions, charging cable and mini remote.The ball has a very simple design. It's basically a rotor on a stick which is mounted inside a spherical plastic cage. The cage does a good job of stopping you getting your fingers caught in the mechanism, so the orb can be used safely with no fear of injury. The orb charges up via a micro-USB cable, which is included. The USB port is on the top together with the on/off button. As it's positioned under the cage, it's a little tricky reaching the port and pushing the cable in. Similarly, reaching the on/off button also often requires poking my fingers through the cage and manually rotating the central section of the orb.When the orb is switched on it lights up flashing, but you have to swing it around to get the motor started, which turns on all the lights. It is a good design as it means the orb doesn't fly off before you're ready. Once it's active though, it wants to fly! It just goes in whatever direction you point it in. The most effective way is just to angle the top towards the other person and gently throw it out - it flies right at them and can be caught and thrown back the same way. You can also point the top more towards yourself and throw it out to have it come back at you, boomerang style. I enjoy doing that. What I can't work out is how to just have the ball just hover in place above my hand, but in theory it is possible.The orb is lightweight plastic so can survive hitting anything really and won't break any windows as it's very light, just don't crush it when catching it. Throwing the orb back and forth is an awful lot of fun and the lighting effects look pretty cool too. Battery performance is reasonably good, I can get about 10 minutes of solid playtime in before the orb needs recharging. Charging is fairly quick but takes about twice as long so you need a few orbs in order to keep one in play continuously.My problem with this orb is that it doesn't stop when it hits something so it will bounce around endlessly until it is turned off with the remote. That's easy to do but the remote is sealed so there's no way to replace the battery. The instructions say that the orb can be stopped by vigorously shaking it but that doesn't work for me, however hard I shake it. That's why I have only rated this with three stars, I do not like having to rely on the remote and it's a real design flaw that the orb can't be stopped any other way. It is fine indoors but its inability to stop makes the ord risky to use outside.