This transparent speaker celebrates the beauty of sound engineering
There’s something about transparent gadgets and audio gear that evokes a sense of retro-futurism. Although we’ve seen a fair share of transparent speakers, this one…
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Bumpboxx BB-777 Plays Cassettes, CDs, Radio, and Bluetooth at 270W
Most portable speakers these days are designed to disappear. They’re compact, wireless, and largely anonymous, blending into whatever surface they rest on until a voice…
Biodegradable Noise-Cancelling Mycelium Earplugs Are Solving A Decades-Long Plastics Problem
For half a century, the humble foam earplug has been a masterpiece of single-purpose design. It is a small cylinder of polyurethane, expertly engineered to…
BREMEN Turns a Broom Into a Guitar and a Desk Into a Piano
Learning to play a musical instrument is one of the most commonly abandoned pursuits in modern life. The gap between wanting to play and being…
Daft Punk’s Get Lucky Gets a 298-Piece LEGO Tribute With That Iconic Gradient Sun
Summer 2013 belonged to Daft Punk. “Get Lucky” was everywhere, an inescapable groove machine that turned the French robots into genuine pop stars after years…
Two Players, One Set: The DJ Concept Built for Connection
Most DJ setups are built for one person. One set of decks, one headphone jack, one vision for how the night should sound. That has…
Apple Gave AirPods Max a Brain Transplant After 5 Years (Same Design, New Chipset)
Apple just gave the AirPods Max a brain transplant, and after five years on H1 silicon that was already a generation behind when the AirPods…
Nintendo’s Game Boy Jukebox Plays Pokémon Music on 45 Swappable Cartridges
Thirty years after Pokémon Red and Blue launched in Japan, Nintendo is celebrating the anniversary with something that looks almost exactly like a Game…
Synth Modular Controller Treats Music Making Like Building with Blocks
Modular synthesis has a split personality. There are racks of patch cables that promise infinite sound design but also scare off newcomers who don’t know…
Roland’s $299 Pocket-Sized Audio Interface Was Designed Specifically For TikTok and Instagram Music Creators
The bedroom studio era changed everything. A generation of musicians learned to record, mix, and release music without ever setting foot in a professional facility,…
Yamaha’s Sail and Butterfly speakers reimagine how sound takes shape
Few brands move as fluidly between precision engineering and artistic expression as Yamaha. From concert grand pianos to motorcycles and professional audio systems, the company…
TEAC’s Turquoise Bluetooth Turntable Is a One-Time Color Drop
Turntables have crept back into living rooms as much for how they look as for how they sound. The usual palette is black boxes, silver…