Speakers

The Fatty Speakers Made from Hemp are Smokin’

The Fatty is an awesome name for a set of speakers. Designed by Hard Truckers, the crew behind the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound, both cones (they’re 12″ Tone Tubby Alnicos if you’re interested) and cabinet are made of hemp, making The Fatty as friendly on the environment as it is on the eye and…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 24

KEF Picoforte 1 Digital Component Audio System Pwns Other iPod Docks

If this KEF Picoforte 1 Digital Component Audio System sounds even half as good as its full-sized KEF big brothers, you’re in for a treat. Continuing KEF’s tradition of flying-saucer-like design, this iPod dock is modern-looking without going so far as imitating alien heads. Composed of a couple of six-inch KEF 1001 speaks, each powered…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 24

Italians Launch Sonic Attacks With Labor Limae Speaker Gun

The pole-mounted speakers from Hi-Fi Center in Italy look loud and probably sound loud. It’s a two-way bass reflex loudspeaker that looks like a speaker gun, and includes carbon fiber enclosures and red elastic suspension to keep it pointed in the right direction—namely, your face. It’s got a recommended power of 100 watts per side,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 19

Semk Cupcake Speakers Are Deliciously Kitsch

Yum Yum Yum. Semk’s cupcake speakers are a world away from your average girly gizmo. Normally, I would run a mile from this kind of ultra frou-frou, pastel twinkiness, but these little objects are somehow different. Maybe it’s because it looks like a cake and I LOVE CAKE. Of one thing, however, I am sure.…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 17

China-Encased Speakers Are Actually from Japan

These speakers are clad in porcelain because, according to designer Noboru Kawamura, it gives a warmer sound than mere wood or plastic. What would happen to these 5 x 5 x 6-inch babies, though, if La Castafiore hits a high note in the aria you’re blasting out on them? Let’s hope nothing serious because, at…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 16

BoomBucket Sound System for iPod Looks Like Ice Bucket

The BoomBucket is a weatherproof, portable speaker system with remote control for your iPod. Once charged, its two speakers will run for eight hours, meaning that you can bug your fellow beach monkeys by playing Chacarron on a loop. It’s fourth- and fifth- gen iPod-, nano- and mini-compatible, and charges them while they are docked.…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 11

Spider-Man Speaker Pillow

Finally, pillows to match our pajamas. The $17.99 Spider-Man Speaker Pillow is a simple device. Requiring no batteries, a 3.5mm audio jack is all you need to have the sweet lullabies of Tobey Maguire sing you to sleep. Essentially a headphone speaker shoved in polyester and spandex, we’re not real excited about the audio potential,…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Jul 9

Corega iPod Dock, a Micro Boombox for shuffle

The iPod shuffle doesn’t have to feel left out of the iPod dock derby any more, because now it has its own ultra-portable speaker system from Corega Japan that matches up perfectly with the shuffle’s five krazy kolors. The laws of physics might keep this microdock from sounding genuinely kick-ass, but its claimed 200Hz-16kHz frequency…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 5

Outdoor Speakers Shed Light, Too

Leave it to the Italians to design these outdoor speakers that double as ice blue-colored lighting fixtures, saving energy with their compact fluorescent bulbs while rocking the night away with sound that better be high fidelity for their $700-$900 cost. Choose these weatherproof Ibiza speakers/lights by Italian lighting designer Oluce as either wall-mounted sconces as…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 3

YG Acoustics Voyager Speakers, For Rich People With Perfect Hearing

These YG Acoustics Voyager speakers scale new heights in the audio snobbery stratosphere, commanding $100,000 just to be in their presence. But wait a minute, they’re not even for sale to the bourgeois masses such as you and me—you have to be a music and film “industry leader” to pick up a pair. For the…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 28

JVC TH-L1 5.1 Surround System For Gamers and Home Theater, Too

JVC rolled out the TH-L1 entertainment surround system designed to plug into gaming consoles, and it’s iPod friendly, too. But gaming is not all it does. Even though it costs $299.95, this 5.1 setup still has two HDMI inputs and rocks out 40 watts per channel for the two front speakers, 100 watts for the…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 27

Hands-On With Mondo Mint: The Wireless Streaming iPod Dock

It’s not an entry proper in our Battlemodo iPod Dock Bracket, but it’s a worthy contender nonetheless. It’s an iPod Dock with two bookshelf-quality speakers, which can take in audio input from the iPod, a USB connection or line in (a Zune). It even has a separate wireless iPod dock that can stream music from…

Reviews Jason Chen Jun 26

Edition Space Might Play Music From Another Planet

Edition Space is a fine furniture enclosure with speakers installed on the ends, and looks like it either came from the design studio of The Jetsons or from a Blade Runner salon. Either way, high-end Austrian speaker makers Trenner and Friedl promise the spindly looking console will “satisfy the most discriminating sonic demands.” Designed in…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 26

On Yer Bike with the iH85B, iHome’s iPod Speaker

Cyclists may be so excited by the iH85B, iHome’s waterproof and impact-resistant speaker unit with its ingenious design that hides iPods deep within its shiny black polycarbonate carapace. And the 99-buck unit is remote controlled, too, so you won’t find yourself wobbling across five lanes of traffic and into the path of an oncoming bus…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jun 26

Lap Blaster Boosts Laptop Blasts

The product mix from the talking chair people at Pyramat is about to get a little deeper. Word on the street is their next gadget accessory is the Lap Blaster, a laptop dock that replaces those tinny tweeters on your mobile machine with the real McCoy. A USB iPod dock rounds out the audio utility…

Tech News Kthompson Jun 25

Gundam Skull Speakers

Harvested from the rusted out corpses of Gundam suits that died with valor in suborbital space combat. Powered by two AA batteries and the drool of thousands of Otaku nerdypants Robot lovers. Gundam Speakers [via Technabob]

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 22

Plug & Play Wireless Speaker System is Transparently Fab

All rooms with groovy wallpaper should have a Plug & Play: a rather beautiful yet titchy, transparent wireless speaker with Bluetooth receiver. Stick the Bluetooth transmitter plugs in whichever MP3 devices take your fancy—mobile, computer, iPod—and your music will play on said beautiful yet titchy etc, etc. Designed by Per Brickstad, the plugs recharge in…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Jun 20

R2-D2 Speakers Make the Bass be with You

These R2-D2 speakers aren’t shipping until December, but you don’t have to be Yoda to work out that they’ll sell out like gâteaux chauds once the galaxies and their girlfriends get to know about them. Sound quality isn’t great and the 4.7-inch droid connects via a 3.5-mm audio cable (USB connection is, as yet, unconfirmed).…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Jun 14

Marka27 Mini God Speakers

The Mini God line of speakers are our new Powers of choice. Towering at a height of 16 inches, we will have a tough time genuflecting at their feet, but that won’t stop us from trying. Each unit features a functional speaker in its belly, while the rest are for decoration only. Powered by a…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Jun 9

New Digital Paper Knows How to Play Sounds

Researchers in Sweden have come up with a new kind of paper that’s able to play sounds. The paper uses a mix of technologies (including e-ink) to embed digital information in each sheet. So when you touch a specific part of the paper, you’ll hear a sound—be it a voice, music or the text that’s…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Jun 6

The Fatty Speakers Made from Hemp are Smokin’

KEF Picoforte 1 Digital Component Audio System Pwns Other iPod Docks

Italians Launch Sonic Attacks With Labor Limae Speaker Gun

Semk Cupcake Speakers Are Deliciously Kitsch

China-Encased Speakers Are Actually from Japan

BoomBucket Sound System for iPod Looks Like Ice Bucket

Spider-Man Speaker Pillow

Corega iPod Dock, a Micro Boombox for shuffle

Outdoor Speakers Shed Light, Too

YG Acoustics Voyager Speakers, For Rich People With Perfect Hearing

JVC TH-L1 5.1 Surround System For Gamers and Home Theater, Too

Hands-On With Mondo Mint: The Wireless Streaming iPod Dock

Edition Space Might Play Music From Another Planet

On Yer Bike with the iH85B, iHome’s iPod Speaker

Lap Blaster Boosts Laptop Blasts

Gundam Skull Speakers

Plug & Play Wireless Speaker System is Transparently Fab

R2-D2 Speakers Make the Bass be with You

Marka27 Mini God Speakers

New Digital Paper Knows How to Play Sounds

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