Gracenote has developed several ways to leverage its audio tech in the past few years, and the one unveiled today is all about making sure your music sounds its best while you're on the road. Dynamic EQ is built on its ability to identify the music b...
What’s better than a case that sufficiently protects your phone from cracks when you accidentally drop it? Why, an interactive one like the Equalizer Case, that’s what! It’s made from tough polycarbonate plastic to provide an added barrier between your phone and whatever hard surface you might bump or drop your phone on. What sets it apart from other cases is the glowing display on its back that looks like a graphic equalizer.
The coolest part? It reacts to ambient sound or music, so the levels go up or down, depending on the current sounds around it–like, say, the sound of your voice when you’re taking a call or the tunes when someone’s playing music. It uses its own battery, so you don’t have to worry about it draining your phone’s power, and has an on/off switch in case you need to tone things down.
The Equalizer Case is available from ThinkGeek for $14.99.
This might be the coolest iPhone case we’ve seen in a while…or ever. The iEqualizer iPhone 5 Hard Case actually has an electroluminescent back that lights up and pulses to the beat like a graphic equalizer. It uses an external microphone, so the equalizer bars will bounce whether the phone rings, you’re talking on the phone, playing music, or just to the ambient noise in the room. The iEqualizer uses it’s own watch batteries for power, so it’s not draining your phone’s charge. The mic and on/off switch do stick out a bit from the hard case. You’ll still want to remember to turn it off when not in use though. Let’s watch the video to see it in action!
The newest watch from Tokyoflash features a really cool full on equalizer effect. The Tokyoflash OTO Watch is sound reactive, with flashing equalizer type bars on the top and bottom along with colored LED lighting effects that go along with the ambient room sound. You probably want to know how to tell the time too, right? Simple- just read the left four digits, top row then bottom (12:51 and 03:54 above). The two digits on the right side are the seconds, read vertically.
The watch has some other cool features like simple USB charging so you don’t need to swap out annoying watch batteries. You can control the level of sound sensitivity as well as setting it to equalizer only- no time- because in the club time doesn’t matter until it’s time to go. It also has the date and an alarm and comes in a black anodized case with your choice of blue, green, red or amber LED display.
While everyone is going a bit nutty speculating about Apple’s potential iOS smartwatch, Japanese watchmakers are pumping out their own interesting watches. This one includes a sound sensor making it work like the bar graphs on a digital VU meter.
Based on a design concept by Sam Jerichow, the Tokyoflash Kisai OTO Watch allows you to read the time vertically across two centrally-located lines. The four digits on the left represent hours stacked on top of minutes, while the two digits on the right display the seconds.
Above and below the numeric displays, you’ll find the bars, which actually move based on ambient sounds. The bar graphs can be switched off if it’s too distracting, or you can also just switch off the time and just show the VU meter.
The watch comes in blue, green, red or amber LCD versions, with matching color LED illumination. Each one is then set into a sleek black anodized aluminum case. Power is provided by a built-in USB-rechargeable battery.
The Kisai OTO watch is available for an introductory price of $99(USD) through Thursday 2/14 at 4pm Japan time, after which time, the price will increase.
Gracenote has developed several ways to leverage its audio tech in the past few years, and the one unveiled today is all about making sure your music sounds its best while you're on the road. Dynamic EQ is built on its ability to identify the music b...
actually has an electroluminescent back that lights up and pulses to the beat like a graphic equalizer. It uses an external microphone, so the equalizer bars will bounce whether the phone rings, you’re talking on the phone, playing music, or just to the ambient noise in the room.
