Sonos iPhone App
Sonos released an iPhone app that can control your music from anywhere in your home.
Bulb-Sound-Speaker Puts Music In Your… Lamp
[via crunchgear] This is a pretty awesome idea. The Bulb-Sound-Speaker, designed by Castiglione Morelli, is, as you might guess from the name, a light bulb that’s actually a speaker. It’s powered in the same way bulbs are, via the screw-in bit there, and then there’s a Bluetooth transceiver and Altec Lansing speaker. You plug the [...]
Surround Sound Headset Rattles The Brain
My dad just sent this over to me from wired.com. My senior project in college was to develop a binaural audio plug-in that would simulate surround sound through standard ear-bud stereo headphones (see: wavearts panorama to get the idea). The plug-in would use HRTFs to trick the brain into thinking that it was hearing sounds [...]
A Cisco Home Stereo?
Have you ever seen an advertisement on TV where you weren’t really sure who they were marketing to, or maybe even what they were marketing? That’s the Cisco ads to me. There’s one thing to be said for brand image and familiarity, but I’m not sure any head honcho at a Fortune 1000 company is going to make the call on what network he uses based on a TV commercial he saw last week. Isn’t there a more efficient way to reach your target audience than with a mass TV ad? Meanwhile, nobody in the blue collar world has any idea what Cisco would even do for their company if they had one to begin with. At least when I see a commercial for a movie that looks cool, I know I’m supposed to go watch that movie; or when I see a Geico commercial, I know I’m supposed to switch to Geico car insurance to save 15% or more. But after watching a Cisco commercial, I’m not sure what they want from me. A pat on the back maybe, or a thank you card for making the world work? So I enjoyed your commercial, what’s my action step? If I’m not a company, what am I supposed to do with this?
Well now everything is starting to make sense…
