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We recently posted about Kawamura-Ganjavian’s Scenter, but their newest product is the Earshell.
We use earrings as symbols of distinction since time immemorial, however they are not particularly useful items. The Earshell is a simple, efficient and elegant sound enhancing device. It can be used to improve our listening of music or opera. Its refined and sleek profile gives it a jewellery feel.
Street Headphones by Brian Garret is a graduate thesis on rapid manufactured designs that was picked up by Freedom of Creation for manufacture. What makes them so special is that owners of the headphones can customize the headband with the names of musical artists they enjoy listening to. What names would you want on your headphones?
[via MoCo Loco]
Just wave your hand over Gesture Cube to access music, web, your family and friends. You don’t even need to touch the surface. Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to detect your hand’s approach and movements — like magic!
Using natural gestures to control our electronics helps to draw them closer to human behavior, making things easier and more fun. The result is an intuitive product concept with unlimited possibilities. LUNAR Europe designed Gesture Cube as a three-dimensional object without a clear front to allow a wider range of gestures for its interface, to show different levels of an application or to conveniently multitask between various applications. The Gesture Cube’s design is simple and minimal, blending nicely into your living space.
These laser cut radios by Matt Brown are systems that use radio-frequency identification speakers and chips to provide people with a better connection to the artists they choose to listen to. When the paper RFID radio is placed over a speaker with an RFID reader, the radio station is changed. The radios Matt Brown designed can also be sculptures (which is very fitting because they look really nice).
Designed by IDEA International, this $75 portable speaker for your iPod or phone is the size of a credit card, and “as thick as a blister pack of chewing gum.” The speaker operates for approximately five hours on a two-hour charge, but the jury is still out on sound quality.
With a penchant for creating innovative, yet controlled concepts, the France based Elium Studio has some amazing consumer electronics that clearly bridge the worlds of art and product design.
Matt Richmond takes a music icon and updates it with 21st century technology. Dock your iPod or iPhone, and turn the Victrola into speakers for your favorite rock album.
[Via Stilsucht]
Mira Yung’s Speaking Uvula, fashioned out of recycled clay, plaster and porcelain, takes the form of an open mouth. High density porcelain accentuates sound waves, while its flaring form strengthens volume.
AIAIAI’s headphones are the most stylist, yet comfortable, looking music makers on the market.
[via Below the Clouds]
These fashion headphones by Stockholm-based Norra Norr are based on the concept of t-shirts coming in a variety of colors. The studio’s was to give this product a more fashionable sensibility. Rather than using plastic, textiles such as headbands and cables were used to give them the look and feel of a garment as opposed to a mechanical device. For people who are picky about their headphone models, there is the Medis (in-ear phone), Tanto (small over-ear phone) and Plattan (medium over-ear phone).
