Jibe Audio's Sound Machine iPhone dock -- designed by Apple alumni

Have you heard of Jibe Audio? No worries, the San Francisco based company doesn't have any product... yet. That will change at CES with this, the Sound Machine iPhone docking station. Designed in part by Robert Brunner who led Apple's design team from 1989-1996, an era which birthed the Newton and the first Powerbooks. The Sound Machine is said to support Bluetooth audio, iPhone synchronization over USB, and unspecified audio input for other audio sources. If this is the same device first mentioned as the "iPhone Station" back in October, then it will also feature DVD playback and streaming internet radio. We'll find out soon enough. CES is only a few weeks away.

[Via Gizmos]

Read -- Brunner's iPhone Station
Read -- Jibe Audio

[KarlW @ Dec 17th 2007 8:01AM]

looks yummy. It's just a shame iPod/iPhone docks are so expensive. Probably because of that "made for iPod" logo rubbish.

[Rich @ Dec 17th 2007 8:22AM]

"The Sound Machine is said to support Bluetooth audio"

Does that mean an A2DP update is in the works for the iPhone?

[drunkenoaf @ Dec 17th 2007 8:36AM]

Bluetooth stereo is supported by the version of OSX in the iPhone, apparently. Here's hoping it's activated at some point (and that the current iPhone's chipsets support it).

[Homeboy @ Dec 17th 2007 8:23AM]

Looks more like a display stand to me. It's very clumsy and the sound coming from that thing can't be very satisfying.

[Rob @ Dec 17th 2007 8:34AM]

This explains why he "left" Apple in 1996.

[billy bob thorton @ Dec 17th 2007 10:51AM]

yea, "left". Products were sinfully ugly back then

[Dr.Awesome @ Dec 17th 2007 8:54AM]

Unless this device was co-designed by more than one former Apple designer, you mean to say it was designed by an Apple ALUMNUS.

[Herman @ Dec 17th 2007 8:57AM]

20th Anniversary iPhone Dock?

[Gordy @ Dec 17th 2007 10:15AM]

You beat me to it...this dock looks like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. I guess he was also behind that design also.

[napkinsketch @ Dec 17th 2007 7:35PM]

"Then, in 1996, with the 20th-anniversary Mac as his swan song, Brunner left Apple to join the San Francisco office of Pentagram as partner." - Metropolis magazine

[Backlin @ Dec 17th 2007 9:15AM]

Sweet, something new I can plug my Zune into!

[shamrock593 @ Dec 18th 2007 4:35AM]

Seriously that's just asking for trouble...

=)

[Jonathan Bergeron @ Dec 17th 2007 9:19AM]

It looks like one of those model stand's Target and Wal-Mart use.

[daedalus @ Dec 17th 2007 9:44AM]

So he was an apple designer back when apple design was awful...


great!!

[Boynamedsue @ Dec 17th 2007 12:25PM]

what homeboy said. this looks more like an in store display to showcase the iphone than a product.