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?
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by John Biggs on April 9, 2009
by Devin Coldewey on April 1, 2009
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.
by Doug Aamoth on March 5, 2009
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?
by Doug Aamoth on March 4, 2009
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.
by Doug Aamoth on February 3, 2009
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.
by John Biggs on February 3, 2009
Number 1: The Carton Speaker. The Carton Speaker. And now number one, the Carton Speaker. And now…
by Nicholas Deleon on January 26, 2009
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.
by Devin Coldewey on January 22, 2009
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.
by Peter Ha on January 19, 2009
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.
by Serkan Toto on January 19, 2009
Tokyo-based sound equipment manufacturer Teragaki Labo today started selling the TERRA-SP3000 [JP], a pair of cool high-end speakers.
by John Biggs on December 16, 2008
Want to hear all the cymbal crashes you can eat? Treble dynamics? Vibrancy? Sure you do. Want to spend $5,400? Probably not, but if you have the cash and the inclination CNET’s Steve Guttenberg recommends the Magnepan 3.6/Rs, a pair of ribbon speakers that make your music sound like angels reaching orgasm in the deepest reaches of space.
by Arun Venkatesan on December 5, 2008
The Speaker Company is offering 20-50 percent off a selection of speaker sets. Their products are already a good value for budget minded folks and the discount is a great added bonus. Two good values are TSAT-1000 5 Speaker system and the TSBL-65 two-way bookshelf speakers. These sets are $100 off and $80 off respectively.
We don’t know how long these deals will last though. They are saying that they won’t last long.
by Peter Ha on November 19, 2008
If you’re in the market for a pair of excellent in-ears then take a gander at the Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 or Super.Fi 5vis. The latest entries to the Super.Fi series are aimed at the fashion conscience folk, but don’t skimp on the superb audio quality that UE is known for. Top-firing design is a fancy way of describing the single driver that pumps the audio into your noggin across a wide range providing thumping bass, vocals and clear highs. If they’re anything like my Super.Fi 5 Pros then you can’t go wrong. The 5vis have a mic for you folks who use your phone’s music player.
The Super.Fi 5 retails for $170 while the Super.Fi 5vi goes for $190. Look for a review next week.
by Devin Coldewey on November 17, 2008
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 10×10cm 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]
by Nicholas Deleon on November 14, 2008
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
by Doug Aamoth on November 2, 2008
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]
by Doug Aamoth on October 27, 2008
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.
by Matt Burns on September 16, 2008
The latest speakers from Logitech employ omnidirectional tech to fill your room with beautiful music – or the Rush Limbaugh audio stream if that’s your thing. No power brick need, these puppies run of USB (OS X or Windows) and even come with a remote with dedicated media functions. The Z-5 speakers can be yours for $99 when the set drops later this month.
by Brian Krepshaw on September 12, 2008
If you’re on a budget or just want to kick out in a different direction from ordinary docks and speakers, you might wanna take a look at the Orbit. To me it looks like a mashup of a tuna can, an old-timey microphone element and an ashtray, but your experience may vary. I better just let Altec Lansing describe it for you. Press release after the jump.
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by Brian Krepshaw on September 12, 2008
Maybe because its been a long week, or maybe because this really is cool, but either way the Moondance GLOW sounds awesome. The iPod docking station for the bedroom not only does all your standard alarm-clocking, iPod-playing and remote controller-ing, it also
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