Josiah speaker short speaker short review

                      

                     £320 |  kwamecorp.com/josiah

                    Hey, your plant pot’s got a hole in it. Yeah, that’s there for drainage. It’s important to have holes in them otherwise a plant’s roots can go mouldy. Oh, you meant the other one, didn’t you? That’s no hole, it’s a speaker driver. It is a ceramic pot, though, made by a proper potter in Stoke-on-Trent. And it’s been furnished with Bluetooth speaker tech in Soho. 


        Stoke-on-Trent? Pottery? These are not words of the future!

                               

                                  Well actually, ceramics are some of the most futuristic materials out there, and they’re increasingly used in everything from knives to the bearings found in F1 car wheels. The Josiah uses its heavy clay body to dampen any vibrations, which lets the speaker sing without the body rattling along with the music. And  DIY keyboard  Oh 3D printers, is there anything you can’t do? bit.ly/printedkeyboard Stoke-on-Trent is the home of the British ceramics industry, which was created there by one Josiah Wedgwood. Hence the name. And if you like it, there’s also a DAB radio version, available for £340. 

         Well, it does look pretty… 

              And to be honest, that’s pretty much the point. You could probably buy another speaker that would  The heavy clay body  lets the speaker sing ” outperform Josiah in a po-faced audio test – it’s a 15W, mono effort, after all – but this is supposed to be more than that: a nice, durable object with an individual design, made by people in small, pleasant local workshops rather than giant factories on the other side of the world. Also, it has two divots in the top for keeping jelly beans, spare change or, yes, plants.

Source  : Stuff