Avega Systems intros pearly white Oyster WiFi speakers

While we got a small taste of Avega Systems' master wireless scheme at CES, SciFi has sniffed out a forthcoming set of tower speakers from the company that looks to utilize that WiFi freedom the Aios platform supposedly enables. Requiring just a power source, these pearly white towers feature a trio of full-range drivers, a tweeter for the highs, and an Oyster nametag. Additionally, they can purportedly "accept wireless music streams from your PC or media server, game consoles," or essentially anything capable of stream audio over WiFi. Although there's no word just yet on price, we don't envision these coming cheap, but we'll find out for certain when Avega rolls 'em out in March.

[Kichigai Mentat @ Jan 15th 2007 12:07PM]

This is interesting and all, and for a geek, quite cool, but I have to wonder, which of the listed applications are actually realistic? Unless there's an analog-to-WiFi or Optical/Coax Digital-to-WiFi bridge that comes with the thing, I wouldn't expect it to work with game consoles, or most media center devices (read: XBox/XBMC, your average HTPC, DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay players, VCRs (yeah, they're still around), Set-Top Boxes, most likely the TV, and to a lesser extent, TiVo). So far, that just leaves computers/Wireless enabled HTPCs. Even then, that's going to require some additional software, and likely incur some sort of a performance hit (if these speakers work the way iTunes' wireless music system works, music will be transcoded to a lossless codec, then streamed). But, still, I'm intrigued. Now, if it won't cost a hojillion dollars when it's released...

[F. @ Jan 15th 2007 12:29PM]

I wonder if it'll work with my "2nd gen" Mac Mini...