Octopus Trap Speakers May Only Look Versatile
March 4th, 2009
In what has to be one of the oddest trends I’ve seen, Japanese company Bird Electron has produced a set of speakers built to resemble octopus traps. As you might have guessed, octopus traps are used to catch octopi. These speakers, apparently, are designed to catch attention instead of 8-legged sea creatures.
They’re pretty enough if you can get past the origin of the design. I’m no vegetarian, but I’m not sure I want a reminder of food sources sitting around on the shelf.
The trap speakers are 50mm and work on a bandwidth of 50Hz to 4kHz at 83dB. But who wants the specs? What I want to know is this: will they still function as actual octopus traps if you take out the speaker bits and refit them to their original purpose? If so, that would make these speakers simultaneously more sinister and more awesome.
[Bird Electron via Akihabara News]
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Nice!! But why so insanely expensive? ($2375!!!)
I really wanted a pair until I saw the price..
Where’d you get that price from? They’re 9980 yen (or about $100 USD).
Pretty Abysmal speakers…the speakers that are installed specs remind me of those 2.00 speakers you get for tech demo kits…oh wait, I just checked, they are the SAME specs, so I’m guessing they are the same type. The Speakers would sound awful (these speakers are designer for buzzards…beeps…bloops…ect). On top of that with no vent hole on the pot, they would quickly blow out. A Tako-tsubo, is nothing more then a cheap clay pot (about 10 bucks max). Honestly, I hate to be the guy that puts a price on art…but gluing some cheap speakers to a cheap pot, running a wire and then charging 100 bucks for it seems kinda a rip off.