Aigo's stretchy USB speaker borrows sock technology to boom the bass

Mmm, elastic, is there anything you can't do? First it turned that quitter of a sock into a winner, now it promises to assist in producing "the deepest music" from an open Aigo E086 portable speaker. The 1.7 watt USB speaker features a single 36mm driver, a 3.5-mm headphone jack, and a 3-hour charge for up to 4 hours of usage. And hey, Cingular was done with that logo anyway. Yours in Japan for ¥2,580 or about 27 greenbacks.

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[Hellios @ Oct 24th 2008 3:58AM]

Looks like an inferior version of Xmini Capsule Speaker (x-mini.com)

[Reader @ Oct 24th 2008 4:10AM]

Something similar on Thinkgeek too. Bout the same price, but looks like it's made better.

[ZSX @ Oct 24th 2008 4:24AM]

Indeed, the X-minimax/ X-mini capsule speakers look better and are stereo too.
http://www.x-mini.com/XminiHome.html

[Jon @ Oct 24th 2008 4:44AM]

I bought one of those X-Mini speakers last year and it is great, this Aigo just looks like yet another clone.

[BJ @ Oct 24th 2008 11:22AM]

Yes it's the x-mini i got mine from thinkgeek. They've been around forever, and it sounds amazing, its freaking loudddd.

[Troels C @ Oct 24th 2008 9:02PM]

@Hellios
Comments like that are why i like user commented news forums. Now I'm ordering the "real" ones :-)

Ty.

[BB @ Oct 24th 2008 4:12AM]

Another OEM, no creativity being made at all, even the look is the same, I am bored with these.

[Shawin @ Oct 24th 2008 4:17AM]

I've had mine for a year now. It was called "Hamburger". Bought in Malaysia. I'm pretty sure all of those are the same, 'made in china'. They are just made for different brands with small alterations, all by the chinese manufacturer.

[Bjsfreaked @ Oct 24th 2008 4:49AM]

Is the cost / usage worth that money?

[K @ Oct 24th 2008 5:24AM]

I have seen this in Hong Kong for months now and they cost 12$(us) here.
It really loud for the size. I would get one:O

[garhol @ Oct 24th 2008 5:35AM]

Heh, the old "Bank of Scotland" logo on the top.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/2226479.stm

[phi @ Oct 24th 2008 9:23AM]

i don't know why this is even news, I've had one of these things for over a year now.

[joe23521 @ Oct 24th 2008 9:55AM]

Isn't Aigo a Chinese brand?

[Nelson @ Oct 24th 2008 10:23AM]

So you rub it and it pops up?

Would the model in black be larger?




Cut me some slack -- It's Friday...

[Yogesh Panjabi @ Oct 24th 2008 11:21AM]

This product is available at many places. It's even available as one of the accessories to the World's Cheapest Impulse Netbooks http://www.impulseglobal.com/accessories.php.

[djngoma @ Oct 24th 2008 11:50AM]

Got these speakers sold by two companies here in South Africa for about a year. Tivo sells it as ShoX and Divoom sells them as iTour-10.

[TehNomad @ Oct 24th 2008 1:01PM]

I bought a tiny portable speaker like this in China last spring and it had a similar twist off cap for bass boost functionality. I guess I'm lucky it hasn't exploded in my face yet.

[Josh Riesen @ Oct 24th 2008 8:46PM]

So THAT's what those regeneration capsules look like IRL... They're much bigger in Halo. ;)

[Douglas @ Oct 24th 2008 9:24PM]

I was just in China the other day and actually used one of these. It's not that bad, except for the fact that it can't get it's power from the device it's connected to (unless it's a laptop of course).

[Jcin @ Oct 25th 2008 6:48AM]

I love this one.It is cool and not pricey.I can bing it everywhere.