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Don’t Duck Around This Player
Quack Quack! Ok I won’t kid around this time, but I think Mac Funamizu has matured pretty much in his design sensibilities. The CD player is called Quackie, but the concept looks decent enough for the tweens who endorse stuff like the Mickey Mouse MP3 players. Quackie is thus: There’s a round body that rolls and a black speaker. The speaker is attached to the body at the axis and it rolls around the body. Simple functions of play/stop/next/back and volume up/down are included.
To pump up the volume, you roll the body so that the “beak” opens up; shutting the beak powers-off the system. Click the black speaker once to skip to the next song and click it thrice to go back.
Wow Mickey n Donald…a winner team!
Designer: Mac Funamizu
16 Comments »
SkyWay says
I’m beginning to see myself as a Funamizu hater…
Okay, one good thing, neat idea.
But then about the maturing : Mac here has apparently never experienced a lock-in CD player, which this would have to be, spitting the disc out when the lock fails. The CD may look flimsy, but it carves furniture quite decently, if you get what I mean and this has no exterior protection, so as a bonus of fear you get sliced childfingers.
The volume slider is also its stand, so I assume it has a ballbearing running at least half the way for it to slide comfortably on the surface of whatever you put this on.
Can’t bend my head around how the button thing works, is it a touchsensitive thing and if so, why did he try to complicate the navigation process by putting everything in one button, instead of, I don’t know, three? If it’s a clicky button thingy then oh my…
Sorry, he still has quite a few flaws in his mind, at least for me. Fans of his “designs” may disagree
Confucius says
Not to mention, hitting the black play “disk” off centre, would result in the whole thing falling over, breaking that new disk you just bought.
I think hes going to regret posting.
Nick says
Ough mature?! Ever considered professional help to acquire a perspective that fits in this reality?
Ana says
Do we still need CD players?
SkyWay says
knowing our friend Mac they are holoCD’s
Margot says
not quite as practical or as portable as an iPod….
SewerShark says
Seems dangerous to me…I mean, touch a high rotation disk. And without mention that a poorly construct disk could shatter without any particular reason.
nutbastard says
modern cd’s don’t shatter easily. in the early days the plastic was more brittle, but it’s been pretty flexible for a decade or longer.
as for high rotation, cds spin at 500rpms. that’s 6.25 fps at the edge. which isn’t enough to do any real damage. also they’re essentially torqueless, and would likely stop very quickly upon contact with the edge.
Bos'un's Mate says
Wow, this would have been really cool back in 1993.
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