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Tuesday August 7, 2007
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Ever seen a speaker that adjusts itself into several positions, dances like a b-boy, and lets you aim its sound in multiple directions? Twiddle, the latest Bluetooth speaker from B-Speech, does just that.
Twiddle contains unique tubular shafts for optimum sound delivery. The two rotatable speaker tubes provide optimal angles and render great stereo sound up to 10 meters. The company displayed the latest version of Twiddle (1.2) in June at Computex 2007, Asia's largest computer expo.
Twiddle is also compatible with many Bluetooth mobile phones. The device supports A2DP, HSP, HFP, and AVRCP profiles, and boasts a compact speaker six watt speaker (30L × 15B × 6.5H mm), with frequency ranges from 2,401 to 2,483 GHz. The device runs on four AAA batteries.
Winner of this year's Plus X Award for Innovation, Twiddle just might be 2007's most exciting new speaker.
Post by Rahul Prabhakar
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August 7, 2007 12:01 PM
Ha! Crazy autonomous zebra speakers! I'm surprised Jen didn't claim this one.
August 12, 2007 12:36 PM
Gee, when I was a kid, we used to appreciate speakers that have wide dispersion angles, versus a speaker that produces trebles that bore a narrow path through space like a laser, requiring such accurate placement of your ear-drums if you want to hear them.
Moving the "tubes" in this speaker is a gimmick, as if they provide an advantage by not requiring you to rotate the whole speaker. But if the speakers were any good, they wouldn't require an aiming mechanism.
The author also speaks loosely about the speaker "adjusting its position," as if it's going to self-locomote like a sea anemone. It took a little while for me to realize that, of course, that automatically tracking your position and aiming the tubes at you is not going to happen. I assume if the speaker could accomplish this, then the author would have gone into this wild function a bit more in-depth. (What if two people are trying to listen?)
More probably, the tubes move when you get up and push them.
For a second, I was trying to figure out why the speaker's frequency response was in the GHz range, instead of kHz. It took me a while to realize the frequency response mentioned is the Bluetooth RF frequency. In my defense, it's redundant to mention the RF frequency, since Bluetooth is defined, in part, by its RF frequency, and it's more standard to provide the audio response of a loudspeaker when reviewing it.
Finally, a speaker that's measured in millimeters seems toooo small. I have my calculator here. For the Americans, 30L × 15B × 6.5H mm equals 1.2" x 0.6" x 1/4". That seems a bit petite for a loudspeaker; and there's no dimension that begins with "B;" and the picture does nothing to help depict the relative size of the loudspeaker to help one around the typographical error.
In summary, aside from announcing the existence of this loudspeaker, the review does little to provide any additional information about it.
I might recommend that the author gets his prose proof-read before releasing them to the public.