HiddenRadio and Bluetooth Speaker on Kickstarter

The attractive HiddenRadio & Bluetooth Speaker is on Kickstarter. Kick in $119 or more and you'll get one when they are ready.

When asleep it hides all its functions, being silent and unanimated. To turn it on you simply twist and lift the cap; the further you lift the cap the more internal volume is created and will amplify to over 80dB of crystal clear sound. This unique design connects and captivates the user through its intuitive functionality.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Palomino

Absolutely nothing new about this. My sleep machine works off the same principle, they probably just added a speaker. But they sure are pretty, the speakers and the boys.

http://sleep-soundmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sound-Conditioner-Sound-Screen-SleepMate-Electro-Mechanical-White-Noise-Machine2.jpg
- nox
  
  New things are usually remixes of existing things…
KanedaJones

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw in the thumbnail I thought it was smaller. my sis in law got a bitchin pair of speakers that are wired but they are the size of a little mint tin. would have liked bluetooth in something that sized.

smaller than this but same design – http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/9e68/
http://twitter.com/NikolasAdair Nikolas Adair

80db? Pretty meh. It is cool looking though.
http://twitter.com/yogasuz Suzanne LaForest

a) how come the engineers at my job don’t look like these two?
b) As a technical writer, please please please stop describing your design as “intuitive.” It is just so overused as to be useless. Every product I’ve ever had to write about the marketing team has described as “user friendly” and “intuitive.”
Guest

Bluetooth has too much lossy compression and latency to be used for game or movie sound. It will drive you nuts.

Mono… Unless you have some kind of clever way to pair 2+ and route each channel to the proper speaker, uses are limited. Bandwidth and latency concerns increase with multiple speakers that MUST be in-sync, even for just music.