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Announced to debut at CES 2012, the iShower is a Bluetooth-enabled shower speaker that can connect to iPad, iPhone, iPod or Android devices within a 200 feet radius so that the users can still enjoy beautiful music while taking a shower. It is completely water-proof, and can work for up to 15 hours continuously. To allow the users an easy control of their devices, the iShower features play/pause/forward/rewind & volume keys too.

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Audio Wrap is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a bag wrapped with flexible speaker on the surface, allowing the users to enjoy music in a more convenient and fashionable way. The flexible speaker adopted to make these bags is developed by the governmental Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, and it can produce the same volume as a small mobile speaker. So, when you wanna listen to music on the go, play your bag!

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Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.

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Angry Birds are here again. This time they come with a new function, and that’s to work as portable speakers. Still, they are designed to be cute and nice, especially good for people who love angry birds. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Making a speaker is much easier than you’ve ever imagined, and what you need to prepare is merely: textile (or paper), conductive tape and some strong magnets. Try this one made by Hannah Perner-Wilson and you’ll find it quite impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One piece of equipment that most boys and girls may be interested in is of course the speakers, and quite often they spend many months and days in making unique ones-speakers that can represent their own characteristics. And here we’d like to share some interesting concepts with you guys, so can you imagine that they’re all built by computer fanciers rather than professionals? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Something else! Resembling the cool look of DSLR cameras, these two products shown here actually cannot be used to take photos at all. But they can be used in other ways, to play music or save your coins. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seriously I’ve always thought that traditional radios looked like suitcases: they both had a handle and they could be taken everywhere in your hands. And now Dominic “Mr. SiMo.” has made amplification systems look like a suitcase too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

An orange colored cylinder is standing on your table, so what do you think it is used for? [Hint: computer.] [Read the rest of this entry...]

What if your glass windows can work as speakers? That sounds really amazing, right? But before that, you should firstly learn something about the “Glass Speaker”. Measuring four feet tall and weighing 80 pounds each, the transparent speaker can produce a full 360° of sound and that’s about as perfect as other speakers. So how does the speaker work? According to the folks from Greensound, the base of each speaker can vibrate and the different areas of the glass slabs can create different frequencies of sounds, and hence a 360° of sound is produced. As mentioned above, you may one day see the window act as a speaker, too. Let’s just wait and see. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently the road signs are designed to call your attention when you walk through the roads or driving along the streets. But the “Look!” created by Lin Ding Yuan, Yeh Lan Hsing and Shao Wei Jhe comes with another duty, that is, to act as speakers for street performers. So will you stop to watch the street performance when see the Look! Speakers in the front? Anyhow, both the designers and the performers will thank for your attention. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Charm your buddies with the “flOw” Interactive Wireless Speakers. How does it work?! Well, you’ll get the answer if you move or shake these little balls. Actually, the “flOw” system is equipped with accelerometers to interpret the users’ movements. Therefore, the speakers can interact with the users, allowing them to by shaking one of the speakers, for example. But before that, you firstly need to squeeze the speaker to activate the gesture controls. The system is developed to be used in conjunction with Apple iPod, and I reckon it’s a guaranteed conversation starter on parties. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can the water tower be used for any other purpose? Just come in and check it out… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ezison 100 is a portable speaker especially designed for iPhone and iPod Touch. Claimed by the Japan-based Bird Electron, users could turn their iPhones into electric guitars by connecting those devices with the speaker through the headphone jack. Measuring 450 mm×150 mm×35mm, the unique speaker is mainly made from wood and acrylic fiber. It also features a 2W digital amplifier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Transparent, flexible, then what is the item actually used for? Have you guessed right? It’s a speaker! Developed by Korean electronics manufacturer FILS, the transparent speaker is made from piezoelectric film and therefore can produce sound waves whenever the electrical current is applied. Pity that the FILS Sound Film is still just a concept, but if the thing gets real, you’ll know its outstanding characteristics as well as we do.

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