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Curious ELPA remote sports built-in speaker
Well, here's a novel concept. Rather than bothering with turning up the volume on your ancient television, just crank up the volume on this here remote. Asahi Electric's block-shaped remote is about as unergonomic as it gets, and it sure won't bring along any advanced functionality, but we suppose that's sort of the point. The 30mm speaker connects to a wireless transceiver in order to blast out the audio, and while most everything else is lost in translation, do you really need to understand any more?[Via OhGizmo]
AIL-B120 and AIL-B130, new color-changing LED "balloons"
Well, it's no WiFi Lamp, Ambient Orb, and certainly no Nabaztag, but Japanese lightmaker ELPA's new AIL-B120 and AIL-B130 "balloons" (we assume they mean balls) apparently will change color depending on the ambient sounds around them. Apparently these 20 centimeter and 30 centimeter diameter balls can produce a "Zen atmosphere," whatever that is. Don't worry about the price or availability -- just zone, erm, zen out, man.[Via Akihabara News]
