Conventional speaker design. It’s everything you loathe. The mediocrity, the bland coloring. You need a set of speakers that really lets you express yourself. Why not give the Bosix speakers a try? They come in wacky, bright colors and look like two watering can spouts mushed together.
According to Bosix, these are indeed 800W speakers, meaning you’re going to blow out the windows if you crank up the Van Halen on your iPod. $235 and they’re yours to keep.
Sony’s new HT-IS100 home theater system has the smallest speakers of any home theater system I’ve seen to date. With 450-watts of power, these miniature speakers pack a punch that rivals many standard sized speakers. An optional wireless kit allows the two rear speakers to be hooked up without the need to run wires, keeping your setup free of cluttered wires.
The entire system goes for around $700 and includes three HDMI ports on the head unit, making it an ideal system for any Blu-ray player. Building that impressive home stereo system couldn’t come at a better price or smaller size.
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Screw water. There, I said it. If it weren’t for the fact that us you humans need water to survive, we would surely despise the stuff. Always getting inside of our gadgets and causing problems. Psh. Whatevz. For all of you solo pirates out there, Pyle has put together their Seadoo with a full media center, made for wave riding.
If it weren’t for the fact that we get seasick, or that we haven’t left our home since 1982, we would be very compelled to take to the high seas, maybe even get ourselves an eye patch, a wooden leg, and perhaps a minor case of scurvy, just so we can feel at home in the Seadoo media vessel. The Seadoo features a 17-inch LCD (rear), a 13-inch LCD (front), a DVD player, 10 speakers, 3 amplifiers, and 3 subwoofers. And hopefully a spatula for peeling your ass out of the thing. Though it can’t go sub-sea. — Andrew Dobrow
Those of you who like to bust-a-groove to Huey Lewis while snapping shots with your non-digital camera, we’ve got a little project that might inspire some creativty within your traditional minds. We’re sure you’ve got a shit load of old film canisters laying around. Bird-Electron has put together a Kodak Film Speaker system, recycling old canisters.
Using empty film canisters, the speakers use low volume output from a headphone jack to drive their sound, creating an omni-directional sound system with no use for external batteries. Catch your own pre-made pair for $55. — Andrew Dobrow
Despite its appearance, the Samsung YA-DS200 is not a cellphone. In fact, it’s a mobile speaker system. Compact and sleek, the 800mW speaker to go has the same design scheme a the Samsung YP-K3 MP3 player and would make an excellent addition to your portable media sound system.
Its LCD screen displays levels of the audio output as you listen. The YA-DS200 Speakers will be available soon in Korea, and than everywhere else soon after. Hopefully. — Andrew Dobrow
Equally unique and blindingly bright colored, the Smooth Creations Diablo Gaming PC has the looks to match its monster specs. The Diablo packs in a Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor, 2GB of RAM, two 250 GB hard drives in a RAID configuration, and two, yes two, GeForce 8800 GTX cards.
If the bright yellow gold color is too much for your eyes to bear, than Smooth Creations offers to cover it up with any color of your choosing. The entire system comes with a matching LCD, speakers, mouse, keyboard, PC, and get this, a matching iPod! Prices start at around $5,000 for the system without add-ons. — Andrew Dobrow
Ngai Luen presented its Guitar-shaped CD Player at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2007. What could possibly be the function of a Guitar-shaped CD Player? Two words: Nabbing chicks. The ladies love music, and they sure as hell love guys who play guitar. And us geeks need all the aid props we can get.
The CD Player has speakers integrated into its body with the volume controlled by the usual Guitar volume knobs. It’s also gonna be available in a variety of big named corporate and trendy designs, so Viva Las Ngai Luen. (more…)
Sources are saying that Microsoft might be giving up their dreams of the Zune posing heavy competition with the iPod and have moved on to brighter pastures. While Zune sales still remain moderately okay on the whole scheme of PMP products, the Zune has proven to be a disappointment as many predicted. It’s being rumored that Microsoft is working on a 3D audio process that could change the face of how we hear our music.
The process would work by having a series of speakers which focus on target locations, so that you wouldn’t need headphones to get the full surround sound effect. A Microsoft development team is currently working on an algorithm for speakers that might do exactly that. Optimally, the speakers would be embedded in computer monitors and would target areas which would create virtual headphones. This would be done by having sound waves that diminish greatly only inches from the focal point of the sound. The ultimate goal is to allow workers to be able to listen to conference calls or video without disturbing other workers at all. It will be interesting to see if this ever comes to light. — Andrew Dobrow
Just when we thought we had heard the last of Lindsay Lohan, we found these Wearable Speakers by Safesound Sports. The SSPS-1 do not have any connected earbuds. They are simply half-dollar shaped speakers that latch on to your shoulder.
The SSPS-1 was made to help and control those damn “iPod Zombies” who walk around in an oblivious vegetable state, totally unconscious of the rest of the world. Resulting in car accidents and pedestrian injury. The Wearable Speakers are made to add a taste of reality to the zombies world. The downside? All of us have to deal with hearing your crap reality too. — Andrew Dobrow
SSPS-1 Product Page [SafeSound Sports, via Mobile Mag]
Sony made a product for the iPod? Whoa, did you see that sheep just fall from the sky? No? Oh, well, I guess the world isn’t coming to an end, and Sony really did just release an iPod Docking Station. The CPF-IP001 iPod Docking Station blasts your music at a pretty small size with its 2 15-watt tweeters and its 15-watt sub. What is nice about this is not that it blends with the iPod style, the big thing is that it has a relatively low profile. At least the speakers do. Just take a look at that power adapter and that whole idea of a small footprint just went out of the window… Too bad, Sony really had me there for a second. Anyways, this dock will run you about $250. A premium cost, but you are getting a pretty big sound for its size. –Nik Gomez
Sony releases iPod Docking Station [via UberGizmo]
