by Jay Garrett on November 4, 2009
If you’re no longer impressed by your iPod dock and friends just stand there; pointing and laughing at the small speakers hooked up to your iPhone – it may be time to scare the living bejeebus out of them!
What you need is a wall of sound – not just any wall of sound though.
You need THE Wall of Sound iPod speaker from Brothers of Stokholm.
The wall is hand-built and made up of 28 individual speakers, each housed in their own chamber.
It even has its own tube amplifier hidden away inside – if you look very carefully at the picture you might be able to spot that little iPod down there.
The pitch reads: “It looks frightening and it IS frightening!” – at 102 kilos, 125 Watt output and 950 x 1250 x 300mm it certainly might require the wearing of brown trousers!
What is scary and rather disconcerting about “the world’s most powerful iPod speaker” is the price – from $4495 plus shipping and the fact that the first batch has already sold out! :0.
If you’re not scared then why not order one now?
by Jay Garrett on October 31, 2009
After 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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