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Home theater specialists Bowser & Wilkins makes a high-end model of speaker called the Nautilus. They’re pricey at about $60,000 for a set. Alfonso de Rojas wanted some, but didn’t have the money. So he spent 400 hours building a set on his own. The finished product, which you can view at the link, certainly looks like a Nautilus.
Link via Technabob | Second photo: Kilpsch.com
Carson Leong designed computer speakers that bellow out as the volume increases:
To turn the volume down, simple squeeze the skin to the desired volume. This creates a more tactile and visual experience for the user, where functions do not have to be operated by simply pressing buttons.
Link via DVICE | Designer’s Website
In the past 100 years we’ve gone from music-boxes and player pianos to cell phones that hold thousands of songs… from conical amplifiers to bone conduction headphones… You don’t know where you’re going until you see where you’ve been so here’s the Evolution of Home Audio at WebUrbanist:
There’s no geek like an audio geek – sorry, “audiophile”. So-called sound aficionados were pushing the envelope of obsessiveness long before the rise of computers, gaming and all things Trek. Let’s look at 10 ways geeks got their grooves back – and where we go from ear.
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I love IKEA. It’s one of my major complaints about Des Moines. If we had an IKEA, a Trader Joe’s and an H&M, I’d be totally content here.
Anyway, there’s something about the cheap but cool stuff at IKEA that inspires people to hack it and create something completely different than its intended purpose. I suppose because the stuff is so cheap, you don’t feel bad if your experiment goes wrong. That’s where IKEA Hacker comes in.
One IKEA Hacker reader turned these mere salad bowls into wooden speakers, and I think the result is quite pretty.
Link via Not Martha
