This week, high-end lifestyle electronics maker Bang & Olufsen announced its BeoSound 5 Encore, an “affordable” version of its BeoSound stereo system, clocking in at $3,555 -- down from $6,000 -- that can consolidate all of your ...READ»
Phil Spector may have invented the "wall of sound" concept, but it took Simon Schiessl and Felix Hardmood to make it into a literal wall. Their interactive installation, Soxels uses a matrix of 1,000 tiny speakers (or "sound pixels") ...READ»
If you’re a contemporary design junkie, chances are you either don’t own a decent set of speakers or you hide them from plain view, because they’re just too damned ugly; your Noguchi table would be insulted otherwise! ...READ»
Jawbone, the makers of the famed Bluetooth headset of the same name, have just unveiled its newest product: the $199 Jawbone Jambox, a portable Bluetooth speaker and speaker phone. Co.Design played with the Jambox last week, and we've ...READ»
Too often newfangled music gear, like newfangled music itself, lacks a certain feel. Interacting with touchscreens is more symbolic and less significant feeling than, say, dropping a needle on vinyl grooves or cranking up a large, ...READ»
Philippe Starck, resplendent in black leather pants, came to New York’s Soho House this week to promote his latest project –- a set of sleek stereo speakers he designed for Parrot, a French wireless technology company whose CEO, ...READ»
You've never seen speakers like these. Instead of a traditional speaker diaphragm, plasma arc speakers use a modified carbon arc lamp to produce sound. The best part? You can build them yourself, and they make an intense purplish glow ...READ»
Speakers are often clunky and material-intensive, but the Flexpeaker from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan is about as sleek and simple as can be. The 8.5-inch-by-11-inch sheet is made from layered thin ...READ»
