Bowers & Wilkins has long been one of my favorite audio brands. If it’s good enough for Abbey Road Studios (hello, Beatles), it’s good enough for me.
I’ve had a lot of experience with previous B&W products– and the Zeppelin Air truly redefined what was possible with beauty and elegance around the design of audio products and iPhone accessories. Not to mention the incredible AirPlay technology built in.
Next up, a few hours with the P5 Headphones and they have not disappointed my tastes. They’re comfortable as ever with virtually no plastic parts. They’re built entirely out of stainless steel, aluminum and New Zealand Sheeps leather. Completely luxurious on the inside and out.
Clearly built with the iPhone in mine, the P5’s have everything you need to easily switch between your iPhone or iPod tracks built right into the wire.
The sound isn’t artificially created with ‘Enhanced’ this or ‘Deep’ that nonsense. They actually engineer for natural sound, and true sound– something which makes you reconsider playing ripped (or streamed) tracks off the web. Play high quality, high bit-rate songs and you’ll see the difference. They sound full, clear, crisp and they’re not trying to ahem, hide anything, like most headphone brands attempt to do. Shame on them.
My friends at Photojojo have done it again. This iPhone SLR Mount is sure to be a massive hit worldwide.
Ever since the iPhone camera was invented, it’s aspired to be what it simply never quite could be: a DSLR. Sure, apps have helped your camera phone inch forward with simulated focusing and faux filters. Faux no more. The iPhone SLR Mount gives you the real thing.
This case-adapter combo lets you mount your Canon EOS or Nikon SLR lenses to your iPhone 4 giving your phone powerful depth of field and manual focus– for $249.
Great addition to the Incase product line– Incase Audio makes total sense. I hope they sound as good as they look!
They will soon be available in the four styles shown above. Coming September 2011.
A complementary extension of our product offering, the new headphones will reflect our expertise in designing and developing products that provide enhanced mobility and user experience. Employing an integrated development approach we call Incase Soundesign, the audio collection reflects a synthesis of precision sound engineering and minimal design.
Oh my, words can not describe this video. Genius. Major props to my friends at Jawbone on their latest marketing promotion for the Jambox (and The Jamchain, which is a hilarious and awesome accessory). Watch for a laugh, including areference to basically every meaningful (and trendy) web startup in San Francisco right now.
If you use the coupon code JAMCHAIN you’ll receive a free JamChain with your order of a Jambox, while supplies last.
This is genius on so many levels. A simple metal punch that lets you turn any piece of sheet plastic like an expired ATM card, into a guitar pick. Via Core 77
Not only is the story of creation incredible, but the product dubbed Pivot Power is simply awesome. Congratulations to everyone involved– especially all 1351 influencers making money on each sale.
Full Disclosure (Hat tip to the FTC): I’m a minority shareholder and advisor to Quirky.
The IDEA Slim Calculator: A minimal and slim solar powered calculator made out of a comfy rubber. The calculator was designed to be easily carried around with notebooks. Math made sexy.
A dead sexy mobile device. The real question I have is all about functionality though. Ceramic, sapphire crystal glass and in 18k red gold for 42,000 euros, or stainless steel for 7,250 euros.
Æsir, a new Copenhagen-based, design-focused mobile phone company is challenging some of the world’s leading designers to bring fresh thought to mobile phone design. Its inaugural phone, the +YvesBéhar, created by Yves Béhar, is launching in Spring 2011 followed by ongoing collaborations with a spectrum of visionary designers that will see further Æsir editions introduced.
Danish entrepreneur, Thomas Møller Jensen, founded Æsir in 2007 after reading a newspaper article which questioned why no one had succeeded in bringing strong industrial design to the mobile handset market. Armed with an appreciation for design, an interest in technology and an entrepreneurial spirit, Jensen set out to address the void.
If you ever doubted the power of the iPad or the democratization of media, this is just a sign of what’s to come. Alesis is so smart to make this. Via Notcot.org and all over the web now!
The StudioDock is the first device that enables anyone with an iPad to create, produce, and perform music with virtually any pro audio gear or instruments. The StudioDock is a universal docking station specifically designed for the iPad, and it gives musicians, recording engineers, and music producers the connectivity they need to create and perform with iPad. Connect all your pro audio gear to virtually any app in the App Store with the StudioDock.
Walnut, chestnut, mahogany, ash. Not typical materials you would find in the construction of USB drives. Lambria brings us a line of 2GB USB drives made entirely by hand representing cute little animals.
There are 5 animals from which you can choose: the dog, elephant, the gosling, the wild boar and the turtle. The packagings of these USB drives are well thought out with every animal designed in its natural environment: the bone for the dog, the pond for the gosling, the motor-racing track for the turtle, the forest for the wild boar and the savannah for the elephant.
Love it. My friends at Aliph are innovators in every sense of the word. Join me in welcoming the Jambox: It’s simply the smallest, best sounding wireless speaker and speakerphone on the planet. You can pre-order yours now! Our pals at Cool Hunting are doing a special green edition as well.
A camera spawned out of the engineering know-how of design teams like that of Audi, chief Audi designer, Walter de’Silva fathers the Leica M9 Titanium. Breeding only 500 Units, everything from the solid titanium, sapphire-crystal glass coatings, premium leather, and LED lights are materials used in the manufacture of their stored cars.
