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SoftSpeaker Pillow SpeakerCan a speaker save a marriage? Before answering consider the case of a certain editor of a certain gadget web site/blog that likes to sleep with the radio on. Not just any radio, but a fire department scanner. Now, consider the long-suffering wife of said editor, tired of being awakened by the bing-bong-BAZ of the fire department "toning out" an alarm on her husband's bedside radio. (Remember the sound from TV's "Emergency!"?)

Over the years, the editor/husband had tried a number of pillow speakers, mostly from Radio Shack. These were large, made of hard plastic, didn't sound very good, and were a literal pain to sleep on.

But, into every life a little happiness must fall, and so one day, Bobby Ray, the Fedex guy, arrived with a small package. It was from Bob Crane of C.Crane Co., purveyor of an eclectic collection of neat gadgets and goodies. Inside was his patented SoftSpeaker Pillow Speaker ($19.95), a small, high-quality speaker, that slips inside it's own pillow-soft foam cover. 

The SoftSpeaker package then slides into your regular pillow and allows you to listen to the radio, iPod (read my six video iPod predictions), or whatever at low volume without keeping someone else awake. Even if the person is sleeping right beside you. Can a speaker really save a marriage? Well, I won't go that far, except to say one editor's wife is finally getting a good night's sleep. And she's much happier thanks to Bob Crane's invention. 

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Posted by: licaaxe
October 27, 2005 2:30 PM

Neat idea! It can even be used to nod at the earsplitting-wife while listening to Metallica.


Posted by: rpeterson
October 27, 2005 4:15 PM

Now that's a good idea. Although, it'll be hard to sleep when you're blasting Whiplash in your ear...


Posted by: Radiosocal
October 27, 2005 9:51 PM

Wow, looks great to me...I too, sleep with a scanner going frequently...if not one of my more than a dozen scanners--then it's the bedside TEAC...and I too have tried a variety of the all too uncomfortable pillow-speakers from Radio Shack...course--I should have known...'cause anything from C. Crane is going to be cool...one of my favorite catalogs!


Posted by: DaJoos
October 28, 2005 10:03 AM

Though I agree that this is a good idea I'm a bit confused about the (very minor) hoopla. I'm in my 40's and had something extremely similar when I was a little kid - they sold them at Radio Shack at the time (and still do - look for 'Deluxe Pillow Speaker'). The only 'patented' worthy idea was to enclose the speaker in a foam cushion. With the pre-existing style you just shoved the speaker under the pillow, and used the pillow as the (very effective) cushion. No disrespect to Radiosocal, but perhaps he put the Radio Shack speaker 'on top' of the pillow? :\)


Posted by: Chris
October 28, 2005 3:13 PM

Only problem is if the wife uploads her own MP3 subliminal messages to your iPod, then you may find yourself waking-up ready to give up the remote control and looking for the closest flower store. Other than that, it appears to be a super solution.


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