Axxen unveils egg-shaped i-EGG speaker at KES

With the bevy of proprietary speaker systems out there, it's refreshing to see Axxen drop an unbiased (albeit oddly shaped) boombox of sorts that'll play nice with just about anything. Hot on the heels of its minuscule Playdisc, the company is still making noise at KES by unveiling its i-EGG DAP speaker, which sports a "futuristic" oval enclosure, detachable stereo speakers, a 3.5-millimeter audio input jack, USB port, and an SD slot for loading up your tunes. This battery-powered device also touts stereo out -- in case the mysterious internal wattage isn't robust enough for you -- and it supports both MP3 and WMA from your USB thumb drive / SD card of choice. While pricing information was not disclosed, we do know that Axxen plans to hatch this in late October for the Korean market.

[Via Akihabara News]

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 25th 2006 11:14AM]

Yow! That's one helluva feature set!
I like the micro-driver type speakers too. They have a more balanced sound than traditional speakers. (given decent enclosures)

The ability to play from a flash drive is what puts it over the top with me. Lots of potential there.

[Nathaniel Dean @ Oct 25th 2006 1:10PM]

I'm pretty sure the egg shape is ellipsoid and if so is taking advantage of this property for noise cancellation. With speaker cones at the focal points, any vibrations hitting the walls from one speaker cone will invert their signal upon reflection and hit the other focal point(other cone), effectively using limited noise cancellation on any signal that hits both speakers.

[xenokilla @ Oct 25th 2006 4:30PM]

i want one of these!!! i think they would make great rear speakers for my computer. or if you really want to annoy people i'm sure you could make them into some sort of mickey mouse style hat, or a pimped out flava flav necklace.