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Posts tagged “speaker”

Bose SoundLink: Wirelessly Play Tunes Anywhere In Your Pad

Over here at Unplggd, we have a special regard for wireless things. They are just so convenient and keep the wire messes at bay. Nothing says wireless as wirelessly playing your tunes all over your pa...

Princeton PSP-NXT USB Powered Paper Model Speakers

We've always had a soft spot for paper models. There's always something pleasantly rewarding about carefully cutting something out, folding and slotting tab "A" into tab "B" and converting a 2 dimen...

Boynq WakeUp: Stylish and Effective Alarm Clock iPod Dock

iPods and iPhones have become ubiquitous. If you compare the small form factor, size of the HD and just plain usability, the iPod is hard to beat. With up to 160GB of storage, which was strangely redu...

Flickr Find: Dodecahedral Speakers!

No, you're not looking at a shrine to d12 dice. This wacky dodecahedral speaker (meaning it has twelve faces) is actually a tool used in the Kettering University acoustics lab in Michigan. So what's ...

Multimedia Seat: Perfect Complement For Your Home Theater

When you are getting ready to watch your favorite movie or playing your favorite game, it's usually great to have a specific seat in which you can get really comfortable. It's important that these tec...

Flickr Find: Single Chairs as Speaker Stands

The simplest ideas are sometimes the most elegant. In this Flickr Find, a single extra bar-height folding chair becomes an artsy, almost bohemian way to stand up your speakers... ...

DIY Project: How to Build Custom Speaker Cabinets

Speakers come in all sorts of sizes and shapes.The important thing isn't how they look, but how they sound. Some of the more expensive ones can cost as much as a house. That being said, it's also poss...

How To: Make a Portable CD Case Speaker System

We've practically ditched all of our CD collection for digital media (though our vinyl collection remains intact), and we think many of you Unplggd readers are following suit as CD sales shrink and di...

Balloon Music Speaker: Sharing Music Has Never Been Easier

If you are trying to share music with your friends, you'd need some kind of a dock. The problem is that most docks are bulky and it's not something that you'd take with you when you are going out of y...

Eggshell Speakers: Tiny Yet Powerful

What are eggshells used for? Apart from housing our morning breakfast, we'd be at a loss to say, but that didn't stop Gomhi from using eggshells to craft a pair of tiny and cute looking loudspeakers. ...

The Gourd iPod Speaker

Proving you can make a speaker and/or iPod accessory nearly out of anything, this dried and hollow gourd speaker naturally has a modernist shape to it. You can even accessorize further with a separate...

Retro Radio Dock: Playing MP3s in Vintage Style

A great looking dock is always needed. You need one in your bedroom, in your office, and they can be used almost everywhere else. The trouble is that most docks just look mundane and uninteresting. Th...

Brando's Hard Drive Dock: USB Hub, Speaker, and More

With new hard drives coming out in greater and greater capacity, it's no wonder that you have a mounting pile of electronic junk on your desk. There are only so many hard drives that you can pack into...

Organic Design: A Hyoutan Spaker

So is this what we mean when we say a design has an organic feel to it? Maybe the real question is 'what in the world is a hyoutan'? A hyoutan is actually a kind of japanese cucumber......that apparen...

Cube Speakers: Portable, Functional and Wireless

I've always thought that bigger speakers aren't always better. Sure you can spend tens of thousands of dollars and more on speaker systems, but in the end, they all do the same thing. They reproduce s...

Griffin AirCurve Review: More Sound From Your Iphone

So, you're stuck camping and would like to share some music. Or you're sitting in your bath, and would like to hear some music. What are you going to do? Plugged docks aren't always the answer because...

Phonofone II: An Old School Way to Listen to Tunes

Sure, iPhone and iPod docks are a dime a dozen. But what about retro docks? Actually, this is the first time that I heard about this concept, even though we posted an image of this a year and a half a...

Novanta: A Workstation for the Future

I used to have this huge Ikea desk in my office, which took up a large portion of it. It was huge, fit in a corner and extensions could be easily added. The trouble with large desks is that they becom...

Look! Shelving Meets Technology

Two of the most prominent pieces in a home theater living room are usually 1) the extra large speakers that accompany the receiver and 2) a stack of unsightly DVD and Bluray discs that the owner has c...

Neo Gramaphone: A Modern Looking Old Record Player

While the shape and function are instantly recognizable, the angular shape of this concept by Kinkyform hints that this is no traditional music player. Rather, the Neo Gramaphone subtly integrates the...

I-Quad: The Landing Strip of the Future

If you don't yet have some version of the entry efficiency device known to the Apartment Therapy-devoted as a landing strip, then you need to get to work. Whether yours is a large foyer with full-size...

The Very Iconic Speech Bubble Speakers

I've seen these floating around last week and was pretty interested by the design and the way that they look in general. They are perfect for our new modern world, filled with computer icons. It's bee...

Floating Speakers for the Garden Party You Won't Have

In case you didn't hear, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter for us! And the annual groundhog day news comes just as we were getting excited for the possibility that we could be seein...

Speakers Integrated Into Lightbulbs?

We love getting two-for-one. Whether it's a sale on shoes or a multitasking integrated gadget, it seems better when our money or our stuff can do double-duty. So we took pause at this lightbulb infuse...

The Great Multipurpose Ipod Dock

We like iPod docks, since we have to have them at home in order to play our tunes. However, docks should always come with speakers, since we like to have a all-in-one solution. That's why I thought th...