The following is a short play describing Kerchoonz’s K-Box. It’s a device that turns any flat surface into a speaker. → Read More
Short version: An alright set of $99 computer speakers that, while lacking a dedicated subwoofer, do produce good lows as well as good highs. → Read More
Ooots ooots oots! Just FYI: Some new Kia cars are ready to rock the party. These Kia speakers have an odd feature – LEDs that pulse or flash in time to the music you’re playing, thereby ensuring you look like the biggest tool on the road.
Sexy, no? → Read More
This interesting new speaker technology produces sound without the conical shape of most speakers, but unlike your garden-variety flat-panel speakers, it’s also flexible.
It’s long past time speakers began to take drastically different shapes, but I’m bothered by the possible applications of this one in particular. What we’ve got here is essentially a talking ad. → Read More
Please observe this USB speaker from Brando. It’s called the “USB Buffalo Speaker” yet it looks like a bull yet it’s described as a “cute cow design” on the product page. It’s a blunder of epic proportions, to be sure, and could mean complete and “udder” devastation for Brando.
So where did the train go off the tracks? → Read More
Amazon has a one-day deal on a surround sound speaker system. You can apparently save $900 on the Marantz ES7001 Simple Surround eXperience Home Theater Sound Bar. See what they did with the capital X there? It makes it seem X-TREME! The $900 price cut also goes to show how much markup there is in home audio equipment.
UPDATE: Well that was quick. Looks like they’re all sold out at $399. → Read More
There’s an interesting story over on CNET about a man named Kevin Nelson who’s designed high-end audio speakers that are capable of producing two distinct stereo channels from a single cabinet. Nelson also happens to be homeless. → Read More
Number 1: The Carton Speaker. The Carton Speaker. And now number one, the Carton Speaker. And now… → Read More
A quick trip to Wikipedia identifies Ginza as the Fifth Avenue of Tokyo. (That I went there in 2007 is neither here nor there.) Very interesting, yes. So imagine the gang’s surprise when we discovered this Bandai-branded speaker, in the form of a diorama. It’s Ginza, just like it was in 1955. → Read More
This is a pretty awesome idea. The Bulb-Sound-Speaker, designed by Castiglione Morelli, is, as you might guess from the name, a light bulb that’s actually a speaker. It’s powered in the same way bulbs are, via the screw-in bit there, and then there’s a Bluetooth transceiver and Altec Lansing speaker. You plug the other part of the unit into your iPod and there you have it, sound coming from your light fixture. → Read More
For $8 you can get a piece of plastic that redirects whatever sound is coming out of your iPhone 3G speaker to your face. Or the general vicinity of your face. → Read More
Tokyo-based sound equipment manufacturer Teragaki Labo today started selling the TERRA-SP3000 [JP], a pair of cool high-end speakers. → Read More
Well, I can only assume they have no bass; “nano” seems to imply less than woofer-level low-end. It seems that researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a “speaker” that can transmit sound as well as conventional speakers, but without magnets or any moving parts whatsoever. They’re made from films of carbon nanotubes and are lightweight, transparent, and “tens” of nanometers thin (probably that’s as precise as quantum mechanics allows them to get). Interestingly, the film actually doesn’t vibrate or move at all. The pressure waves composing the sounds are created by temperature fluctuations, if I understand correctly (unlikely). Furthermore they produced sound whether they were bent, moving, or even partially damaged. They’re currently manufactured up to a maximum width of 10cm, but a 4-in. wafer can be “stretched” to 60m long, providing enough speaker material to make 500 10x10cm loudspeakers. It’s all in the lab right now, of course, but this technology sounds really promising and fundamentally different. Hopefully we’ll be hearing more from them in the future. [via PhysOrg] → Read More
These portable Xpod speakers are about the size of the iPod nano. As such, they couldn’t possibly sound any better than two wires connected to a dirty penny. The two-channel 770mW amp hardly belies that metaphor. Moving on. Any USB port can charge them, so, at the very least, you won’t be scrambling to find batteries when they die during the “good part” of that one Grateful Dead song. They’re only available in Korea. Yup, that’s all I got. It’s gonna be a rough day, I can feel it. via Technabob → Read More
It’s entirely possible that most ordinary people won’t ever have the problem of trying to figure out what to do with two empty fire extinguishers (that’s a lot of fires) but just keep this idea in your back pocket should the scenario ever present itself. A Russian man has turned a couple of spent fire extinguishers into some pretty cool-looking speakers. It’d be an understatement to say that the process looks a bit daunting for those of us without extensive metal cutting and welding experience. Oh, and it also might help if you speak Russian, as the step-by-step process is written entirely in that language. So welding, metal cutting, and Russian. If all three check out, you, too, could have a set of awesome fire extinguisher speakers. [TopMods.net via technabob] → Read More
Quick Version: The $99.99 Pure-Fi Anytime is a good choice as an alarm clock and single-room speaker system. If you’ve got your life on your iPhone, you’ll appreciate this gadget as it pulls double duty as a bedside phone charger and music player. → Read More
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