From the Munich, Germany-based designaffairs studio comes FLYM, a foldable speaker concept that is so portable it fits in your pocket. Anytime you want to listen to music, simply unfold it and adjust the magnetic latch. It requires no battery and just plugs into any device with a headphone jack. Using a super thin speaker film, the speakers are lightweight and convenient enough to join you on the go for impromptu dance parties or music listening.
Hosted in Milan’s Ventura Lambrate, RCA Paradise challenged students to “contemplate the discovery of something or somewhere more wondrous.” The products they presented are all inspired by a “quest for a better future.”
Wow. I never imagined that I’d be posting about a guitar amp, but these amplifiers from P3 are lovely to look at. Musicians – forget those ugly black monstrosities and get yourself one of these groovy amps! I can’t speak too much about the audio quality or the tech specs because I’m not a musician, but from an aesthetics standpoint, I wouldn’t mind my kid rockin’ out in the living room if she had one of these…
From the Portland, Oregon-based design studio New, comes a portable Bluetooth speaker solution for computers, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones. The Zooka speaker is made of durable silicone and produces sound that is five times the volume of built-in speakers of the previously mentioned devices. We are totally digging it.
Produced by Pineway Asia Ltd. and designed by designer Andrea Ponti, the Ag++ Type R Mini is a new ultra-compact collection of high performance earbuds.
Red Stripe®, the Jamaican beer company, recently teamed up with London-based Japanese sound artist Yuri Suzuki to create a series of cultural projects that celebrate the DIY culture of the brand’s Jamaican roots. Suzuki is best known for his sick homemade music machines including a flute made from an electric kettle and Scalectrix tracks made from old vinyl records.
Make Something from Nothing is the first project in the series – a giant (2.5 meters high!) sound sculpture created using thousands of Red Stripe® cans. Launched on November 16th at Village Underground, the sculpture draws inspiration from bass heavy Jamaican sound systems. During the exhibit, guests were treated to Jerk chicken and the best in Jamaican inspired beats, and — you guessed it — tons of Red Stripe®. The beats were provided by DJs Hessle Audio’s Ben UFO, NMBERS co-founder Spencer and Al Fingers.
Check out the video of this impressive machine in action:
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To keep up with the rest of the collaborations in the series, visit Red Stripe® on Facebook at facebook.com/redstripelagerbeer.
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Symbiosis II (Log-Fi) are speakers cast from tree logs by Stanley Ruiz in collaboration with Wataru Sakuma of Masaeco. Made of 100% paper pulp, they were developed as an extension of the original Symbiosis speakers presented a the Sounds Like exhibition (2010) curated by Joey Roth.
The Other Edge created this spool earbud wrangler for Fred.
Spooled is designed to protect the ear buds themselves and make winding and unwinding the cord easy. Insert the jack from through the hole from bottom to top of the spool and pull the ear buds into a protective cover, then wrap everything up and stash the jack back inside the barrel as well. Taking their cue from old wooden thread spools, they offer a simple solution to often a frustrating problem.
Jawbone, a mobile product company known for well-designed wearable audio devices and portable speakers, introduces Up, a wristband that can track your sleep patterns, physical activity, calories burned, and food intake when synced with an iPhone app. You can even create a team with friends if peer pressure keeps you motivated. Most importantly, it’s a device you’ll actually wear because it was designed by Design Milk favorite, Yves Behar.
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