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Dr. Seuss, your Alpha speakers from Symbio Design have arrived
Here's a way-out speaker design that looks like it will reach production. After showing off the design concepts for the Alpha loudspeaker at exhibitions, public reaction has spurred its creator, Symbio, to initiate series production for the unusual design. Certainly, advanced materials and manufacturing techniques can break free from box designs to the benefit of performance. It's a bit hard to read between the lines of the company's website, but the frequency response looks pretty flat from 200 - 20k Hz. For speakers measuring about 22 x 13 x 18-inches, the limited frequency response is understandable. Unfortunately, pairing the Alpha with the still-not-real Beta center channel or Eggo sub isn't an option, so interested buyers may have to mix and match with more pedestrian designs for now. [Via CyberTheater]
Alfa Media's "world's smallest" miniSD reader: MNCR
While the miniSD cards themselves certainly aren't the leanest of the SD bunch, Alfa Media has unveiled the self-proclaimed "world's smallest" reader for these minuscule cards. Coming in at a hair smaller than Apple's latest iPod shuffle, but not quite as petite as the nearly microscopic Oki Electric Industry MP3 chip, the 24 x 21.5 x 2.4-millimeter MNCR plugs directly into your computer's USB port, theoretically creating an incredibly tiny USB flash drive. The company claims its (presumably) easy-to-misplace reader will play nice with Windows and Mac-based operating systems and keep those transfer moving along at 26Mbps. Although we aren't yet sure of pricing and availability details, we'll go out on a limb and assume your 2GB miniSD card will demand a bit more coinage than this bantam liaison.[Via Red Ferret]
