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EOps i24R3 Portable – Single Unit Wireless Surround Sound Speaker

by Jay Garrett on November 4, 2009

i24r3-portable-speakeWhy have I got a picture of a broken table/giant spinning-top/dartboard/archery target?

This is none-of-the-above as you can well imagine.

What that happens to be is the EOps i24R3 Portable.

The real, working, funkiness is a wireless, waterproof, single-speaker surround sound system that has just been announced by Hong Kong designer Michael Young.

The system is a single sealed sound chamber filled with four, 2.6 inch flat speakers and two 4.5inch passive radiator speakers which all snuggle up to a 2×10W Class D amplifier.

You can either hook this up to a wall socket or it will run off the built-in lithium polymer battery.

Looking around it you may become confused as there are no inputs.

To get your choonz pumping the i24R3 grabs your music over 2.4GHz wireless USB or A2DP Bluetooth – direct and wireless from the likes of iTunes and devices like iPhones.

Needless to say that there seems to be no word on price – but it does look pretty schweeeeeeeeet you must agree.

Or not?

Let me know :)

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New BT Tower Lights Can Be Seen From Moon – The Largest/Highest LED Screen?

by Jay Garrett on October 31, 2009

bttowerAfter being pointed to a Twitter post that said that “The BT Tower is currently going nuts with little flashes of light firing off it” I decided to investigate.

Was this new flashy show an attempt to ward of Kitten Kong (see below)?

Was it a huge electrical fault?

Was BT just showing off?

Well, apparently it’s just a new lighting system.

Gone are the restrained and friendly lights of old and in their stead is the mother of all LED screens.

The screen is wrapped around the Tower’s 36th and 37th floors, 167m above the pavement.

Obviously it’s designed to withstand the glorious British weather as well as errant pigeons.

As with the more modest screens in TVs, red, green and blue LEDs give the screen its full-colour array.

The new screen will be readable from Waterloo Bridge by all accounts and be visible even on a bright summer day (in England???!!??).

Here’s the science bit: Its 177 separate panels consist of 529,750 LEDs. It has an area of around 280m2 and a circumference of 59m, which is the same as seven London buses end to end.

Although the new screen will use more electricity than the Tower’s old skool lighting, each LED will last many times longer than the old bulbs, according to BT.

For all you frequent fliers out there – the new lights have been welcomed by pilots and not been cited as a distraction. BT denied that the Tower will contribute to light pollution, since, apparently, London is already so polluted by light that you can’t make the situation any worse even with the world’s biggest LED screen, which, allegedly, is visible from the Moon.

The now permanent screen will start up officially this evening during the lottery draw, and will start its life by displaying a countdown of the 1,000 days or so until the London Olympics begin.

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Nintendo Wii 2 – HD, More Online-ness, Cheaper and Smaller than First Wii

October 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Shigeru Miyamoto, the dude responsible for game greats Mario and Donkey Kong says that the Nintendo Wii 2 will be smaller and cheaper – who am I to argue with that?
He also says that the console will move into “other aspects of daily life” – so do we take it that Nintendo will be branching [...]