查看完整版本: EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually

EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually

[img=494,376]http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/eopsiphone.jpg[/img]Just unveiled at Tokyo Designer's Week, EOps i24R3 is probably the best-looking speaker system for the iPod/iPhone I think I've seen. Plus it's jammed-full of wirelessness, so the iPod-dock, woofer-equipped base station is paired with two or more (up to eight) remote stereo speakers. And in the true spirit of iPhoneness it's gesture controlled— touch-free gestures too: you just wiggle your hand in front of the base station and control volume and equalizer functions. [list][*][url=http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/i24R3/1004406419][img]http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/11/smallish_3008133058_4b2c9e5b6e_o.jpg[/img][/url][*][url=http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/i24R3/1004406430][img]http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/11/smallish_3008132986_f4fcb7f1ed_o.jpg[/img][/url][*][url=http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/i24R3/1004406441][img]http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/11/smallish_3008132936_cebc44995e_o.jpg[/img][/url][/list]



The satellite speakers are gesture-controlled too... which inescapably brings to mind a passage from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy about motion-control, which saves "a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same" thing.
There is a full-function RF-remote control as an alternative though. Plus there's a wireless dongle to let you stream music from a Mac or PC. Here's designer Michael Young demonstrating the unit:It's due on the shelves in early 2009, but with all that 2.4GHz wirelessness and sleek design, don't expect the price to be cheap. [[url=http://www.eopstech.com/eops/R3E.jsp][color=#dc870e]EOpstech[/color][/url] via [url=http://www.core77.com/blog/events/tokyo_designers_week_2008_video_driveby_michael_young_11644.asp][color=#dc870e]Core77[/color][/url]]