Finally,
Sony is striving to incorporate its technology into our "everything everywhere" lifestyles with a stereo speaker that matches our fast-paced, Jetsons-esque, 21st century "chill sessions." What are we talking about? Mainly, the company's new non-directional speaker prototype, a thin, tall, acrylic tube with a woofer at the bottom, a mid range "unit" at the top, and a tweeter created through the use of the vibrating, resin cylinder. Apparently, the speaker is capable of projecting sound in a omnidirectional fashion due to it's circular shape and unique speaker placement, though there's no telling how accurately it reproduces Mastodon's harmonized guitars. The speaker is self-powered (i.e., active), and as far as we know, Sony has no immediate plans for release, Stateside or otherwise.
posted Sep 12th 2007 10:54AM
First .. sorry had to do it once in my life .. cool though :D
First? How about a no on that one. :)
This looks pretty awesome, but it'll be at least 2-3 years until we see this available to the general public. :(
Fail.
Wuvevva !
This looks pretty cool...I wish they would have came out with something like sooner.
why?
why not?
i get the concept and the idea makes sense to me. tho it seems like if you had one in your house next to the sofa, and invited some people over to watch the game, it would be a good way to scare the crap out of them due to its non-conventional design :P
Prepare to be flooded.
Someone post this in /b/.
As for the speakers... Groovy. Finally something that really looks 21st century.
Would like to test them first though...
I want? This would be so awesome to stick in the middle of a room, so people question "wtf?" and I tell them what it is!
Something like this is genuinely innovative and stylish, yet nowhere near delivery to market. What do Sony give us instead?! F**king Rolly.
Looks Hawt; it'll replace the stripper's pole I have in the middle of my room.
I was thinking... Acrylic tube, drill, and a bit of inventiveness and you have a speaker bong.
Mastodon... you've got good taste in music Joshua. It’ll be a good test for the speaker I’d imagine.
Indeed. If it cannot play Birchmen well it must be destroyed.
In what colors does it light up?
Someone give me his IP, i'm at work and lazy....
mmm, my favorite type of technology; the unreleased kind.
I like the design but doubt these will ever be released. The NXT speakers do a pretty good job, so it seems like these should work relatively well.
From website translation it also has stereo sound that emanates in three directions from one unit.
"When it fits in classification of usual speaker, it can express 3 way 3 speakers." Qwara translation
So could one walk around it and hear stereo sound from all sides?
Sony is back, when they start making weird tech like this, life is interesting. Let's hope this stuff filters back to the USA
It'd give new meaning to blown speaker...
these speakers look a little too fragile for mastadon ;)
I know people here hate bose, but they have had a speaker similar to this thats a portable PA for a while now. its called the bose L1 model II: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Bose-L1-Model-II-System?sku=600095
Sounds like an engineering nightmare