Build a synth like you build a sandwich
Electronic music making can be hard the first time. You either start off extremely basic, or lose yourself in a whirlwind of tutorials as you…
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Astell & Kern’s new hi-fi audio player has the strangest bezels on the planet
(Continued from title) And that’s saying something, especially after this year’s onslaught of notched phones. The screen, tilted a little less than 10° anti-clockwise seems…
The Headphone Wire Has Already Made a Comeback
Some would argue that design trends never really disappear, they simply come and go. That orbit between popular and not is moving faster than ever…
Traditional Styling, Modern Technology
With mobile phones, mp3 players and music streaming services being so readily available now, they quickly forced Cassette Players to become a thing of the…
Lofree’s QTV speaker uses nostalgia as a design trigger
I love when you look at a product and can instantly guess which company it belongs to, purely by the way it looks. Lofree’s carefree,…
Lenovo wants to literally merge the tablet and smart-speaker
Looking like the Echo got friendly with a tablet PC, Lenovo’s Tab4 wants to combine the best of technologies to give you something that just…
Beauty with a Reason
The appropriately named Blossom Speaker takes inspiration from a blossomed flower and adapts it into a geometric and simplified form. The primary focus behind its…
One Stellar Speaker
The Saturn hybrid speaker-light begs the question: why shouldn’t our devices also be works of art?! The obvious answer is that everyone has largely different…
A Speaker for the Fashion-Conscious
If you were to search ‘speaker’ into any design website, it would soon return a multitude of speaker designs, but CARABINER goes beyond being just…
If you miss the headphone jack, this is for you
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the headphone jack. Literally the only con with my current Pixel 2 is the lack of…
A radio for the open-minded!
The Airo is an avant-garde radio that destroys the misconceptions that technology and information should be personalized. Airo is an experimental radio that reads tweets…
A kit for the musician on the move!
I’ve always admired what ROLI does for two reasons. ROLI’s approach to music making has been unconventional and innovative because A. you don’t really need…