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The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

Cavalier’s approach to audio is best described as classic. It uses classic materials and styles to create audio devices that don’t look particularly uber-tech. The Air, Cavalier’s latest offering, much like its ancestor, the Maverick showcases an absolutely retro-hipster attitude by ditching the boring plastic for knit fabric, wood, and leather.

The Air is essentially a combination of three things. A smart-speaker, a clock, and a wireless charger. Its unique shape allows it to be all three, as the speaker grille also contains a concealed LED matrix that tells you the time, and the surface above the Air serves as a Qi-compatible wireless charger for your phone. The Air comes enabled with Alexa, so you can talk to it, commanding it to play songs, modulate the volume, and much more. Packed with a very capable 20W speaker system on the inside, the Air just goes to show how obsessed the guys at Cavalier are with their hi-fidelity audio. The wireless charger just builds on the functionality of what I’d say is already a pretty kickass smart-speaker… and if that isn’t enough to convince you, the Air comes with two USB ports at the back to charge more of your gadgets while you groove to music from the 80s, because that’s how the hipster Cavalier do…

Designer: Cavalier Audio

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The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

The Cavalier Air is a hipster-looking smart-speaker that also wirelessly charges phones

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The Accessport Air brings Bluetooth 5.0 to your trusty wired headphones

The world changed as we knew it in 2016 when Apple announced that their phones would no longer carry the 3.5mm headphone jack. They were obviously pushing for wireless audio, as they also launched the AirPods that year. As with everything Apple does, the entire industry followed, dropping the jack from their smartphones, resulting in an awkwardly high amount of wired headphones now becoming undesirable. See, wired headphones may be a sort of nuisance, but some of the best headphones in the world are wired, not to mention wired earphones are much more reasonably priced than their wireless alternatives.

If you’re like me, and you have a wired headphone that you’d love to use with your smartphone but can’t, the future isn’t too entirely bleak. You can either spring for a dongle, which makes sense for a while, but when you migrate to a new phone from a different company, that dongle is essentially useless… or you can take your old earphones/headphones and turn them wireless. It’s as simple as plugging it into a Bluetooth transmitter, which in this case, is the Accessport Air. Bluetooth transmitters come a dime a dozen but not many of them boast of the kind of features you’d find in the Accessport Air. Built with Bluetooth 5.0, aptX high-resolution audio playback, low latency for gaming, and 9 hours of playback on a single charge, the Accessport Air works with all phones that have Bluetooth and all playback devices.

I ended the last paragraph with the words ‘playback devices’ on purpose. The Accessport Air doesn’t just make your wired headphones or earphones wireless. It works with speakers, amplifiers, and even your car audio system. Basically anything that can connect to the Accessport Air via its 3.5mm audio input can be made wireless. Using the Air is as simple as plugging the playback device in, switching the Air on, and connecting to it with your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. In order to give your playback devices the power of Bluetooth 5.0, the Accessport Air comes with an internal battery that lasts for 9 hours on a single charge. Enough to watch movies, play games, listen to long playlists at the gym, at work, or on the subway, or even connect to your car audio system for those long drives!

Designer: Peter Yoon of ADVANCED SOUND GROUP

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