Electronic Products
Speaker in a box visually expresses sound waves when music is playing
If you’re in the market for speakers, you should take a look at Giorgio Bonaguro and Juan Soriano Blanco’s new design: a spherical speaker whose design allows it to visually express the actual sound waves of your music.
The Vitruvio speaker is caged into a simple cubic wooden box, with rubber wires in each of the eight corners suspending it in the center. These wires are attached along the diagonals, meaning the actual speaker – which is made from either metal or ceramic – is moved to and fro from the force of the sound waves generated by your music, essentially allowing the user to “see” the movement of sound.
The Virtuvio speaker is equipped with a common auxiliary in-feed, so you can plug pretty much any device into it to play your music. The designers can craft the cubic frame out of either solid metal or wood, depending on preference.
Bonaguro and Blanco’s device is currently still in concept form, though a version of the speaker was presented at Wanted Design NYC’s Launch Pad. Their design was actually inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing, hence its name, with the creators attempting to mimic the Man’s spread-eagle pose in the speaker’s wires.
