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Meet the OM/ONE: World's First Levitating Speaker

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  • Bluetooth Speakers
  • Audio
  • Bluetooth
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August 12, 2014 11:10:48 AM

does it charge while levitating in the base or do you have to charge it seperately? if seperately, i find the idea fairly useless
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August 12, 2014 11:46:48 AM

Kinda neat, but I'd want the licensed version that look like the Death Star. I'd play the Imperial March on repeat.
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August 12, 2014 11:47:48 AM

i don't know. i think it's pretty clever actually. Now if only someone would buy me two for xmas...

and i suspect it charges while levitating. The amount of current you'd need to create the magnetic field would be significant enough to charge it as well.
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August 12, 2014 11:57:17 AM

-i stand corrected... i just looked it up, it charges with a power cable. lame. they put a lot of thought into it but didn't take it the next step
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August 12, 2014 12:22:24 PM

I find it funny that the OM guy speaking at 1:49 has Harmon Karmon Soundsticks on his desk.
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August 12, 2014 5:28:05 PM

how many of these speakers does it take to hold a person up on a surfboard?
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August 12, 2014 11:28:42 PM

Initially impressed, then sorely disappointed when I checked their site. it's not much more than bluetooth, battery powered omni-directional speaker mounted on levitating magnetic base. around 2-3" worth of MONO speaker at that.

I was hoping for more impressive piece of speaker technology. Can't imagine it sounding significantly better than regular $50 bluetooth speakers.

in fact, I wonder if the levitating base actually be detrimental to energy efficiency/low frequency response due to 'flexible' nature of the speaker basket that floats in mid air.
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September 17, 2014 12:47:49 AM

Audio quality is more important to me than "cool gimmicks", but I can see many beats fans exited about this as it has style and personality.
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September 17, 2014 10:00:08 AM

I was hoping it would levitate a little higher than that and not have such an obvious base, but that would take a lot of power and probably screw with the speakers inside. It's a cool idea, but it doesn't seem worth $179. Maybe $50. You can get these really cheap on Amazon, and then it couldn't cost much to put a speaker in it.
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