Cloudbeat reimagines the portable speaker with user-repairable, circular design
In a market where most portable speakers are sealed shut and designed for eventual replacement rather than repair, the idea of opening up your own…
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This Gorgeous Turntable Concept is worthy of being in an Art Gallery
If you’ve ever looked at your turntable and thought it could be on a museum shelf, you’re not alone. Hive Industrial, a design studio with…
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…
Stunning LEGO Sony Walkman Replica Features a Dockable Cassettes and Wearable Headphones
It’s weird to think that Walkmans were literally in my lifetime but if I were to give one to a kid born after 2000, they’d…
This 3D-Printed Headphone Celebrates Every Tangle We Hated
Remember the pocket archaeology of untangling your headphones every single time you pulled them out? That split second of dread when you’d fish them from…
This Speaker Turns Sound Waves Into Sculptural Art
There’s something deeply satisfying about a product that looks exactly like what it does. You know the feeling: when form follows function so perfectly that…
BreakX1 Just Made Karaoke Machines Actually Worth Displaying
Remember when karaoke machines were those clunky black boxes that looked like rejected stereo equipment from the 90s? Yeah, those days are officially over. The…
A Digital Music Player with FLAC Files and a Built-In Speaker
There’s something oddly comforting about watching the vinyl resurgence happen in real time. We’ve collectively decided that convenience isn’t everything, that sometimes the ritual matters…
Samsung’s New Wearable Audio Concept Looks More Like Jewelry Than Tech
Wearable technology has spent too long looking like wearable technology. Slac breaks that mold with a refreshingly honest approach: if something lives on your body…
IRIS 4.0 is a Fabric-Covered Smart Speaker Orb That Watches from Above
Smart speakers usually sit on kitchen counters, bookshelves, or bedside tables, plastic cylinders and pucks buried behind plants and picture frames. Their microphones and speakers…
Off-beat JLab Blue XL headphone speakers can be worn around the neck
Move over Boomboxes, TWS earbuds, and Clip-On headphones, as JLab has just revealed a bizarre audio accessory fit for the giants of planet earth. These…