The word “modular” is growing increasingly common these days, especially in the tech world where “make it your own” gadgets have seen a surge in popularity. SparkBlocks, however, has an interesting crowdfunded take on this popular concept: Customizable speakers.
The base speaker in the system in a little box that includes an aluminum case, a built-in amp, a small volume control knob, and a battery that can last four hours. Fair enough, but this box also has built-in grooves for attaching other aluminum boxes. This allows you to build out the speaker with more speakers if you want some additional sound and extra oomph.
Creating your own deck of mini-speakers is the least of what SparkBlocks can do, however. There’s a whole set of blocks that you can attach for expanded capabilities. There’s a “Tweeter” block, which does not post songs on social media but rather provides upper-end, high frequency reinforcement for better, clearer high-pitched sounds. There is an LED block if you feel like a light show or just want a bright light on your desk. There’s a Battery block that provides you an extra 12 hours of battery life to keep the party going. There’s even a SmartBlock for WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities over Android and iOS platforms.
You can fit the blocks together however you see fit to make whatever design works for your space. There’s also plenty of room for digital creativity: The SmartBlock uses Linux to allow computer users to directly interact with their speakers in unique ways. You can set up the speaker blocks to take phone calls, use the phone app to change songs or download new apps, and more. That’s right – you can download music apps like YouTube straight to the SmartBlock for more advanced song playing.
Of course, by the time you add all your favorite modules and extra bits, you are left with an awkward shape that looks like a Tetris game gone wrong, so this isn’t exactly for people who like symmetry. Fortunately, they probably would look right home in a dorm or as part of a desktop conversation collection. There’s also a bike mount in the works.
SparkBlocks isn’t quite fully funded yet, so if you want to help out then hop onto the Kickstarter and pledge away. Around $157 will get you three Blocks to play with, with higher amounts netting you different collections of Blocks up to the full set.
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