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

Click Here to Buy Now

D20 Hat Gives You 1-in-20 Chance of Not Looking Like a Hipster Doofus

Back in the day, any time the dungeon master whipped out the 20-sided die, you knew you were in some deep crap. This D20 hat is perfect for the D&D geeks out there or your DM in your group, as long as they don’t mind looking a bit trendy.

ThinkGeek calls the hat a Crit Success d20 Banded Trilby, but I call it a hipster hat. It’s made from black straw and the grosgrain band is embellished with tiny dice in varying rolls.

This thing is a one-size-fits-most with a 23 1/2″ interior circumference. In other words, my big melon wouldn’t fit inside it. If your head fits, you can grab one at ThinkGeek for $29.99.

Google patent hints at Glass: Hipster Edition

Google patent hints at Glass Hipster Edition

So, while Google Glass: Explorer and Prescription editions are designed to sit on the right side of your head, wouldn't it be great if the wearable was, you know, built into an actual pair of glasses? That's the thinking behind Mountain View's latest patent, which incorporates the device into a thick pair of specs. Compared to the current versions, this concept (pictured, after the break) splits the camera and display modules across the frame. Presumably, therefore, wiring would run inside the frame and across the nose bridge -- and we'd hope that the greater real estate would also accommodate a bigger battery. While this particular design may never get further than a pile of paper on Sergey Brin's desk, the near-sighted futurists among us can always hope.

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Projecteo Instagram Projector: Because Retro Filters Aren’t Hip Enough

You’ve shared your Instagram pictures on Twitter and Facebook. You’ve sent them as actual pictures, stickers and magnets. But that’s not enough. You’re a sharing monster that can’t be stopped. Because I love monsters, here’s something to feed your desire, a tiny projector that uses 35mm film to display and embiggen your pictures.

projecteo instagram projector

Before you can use the Projecteo, you have to use an app to pick pictures that will be “melted” in circular shape on a single frame of 35mm Kodak film. Each frame can hold up to 9 pictures. This will be inserted into a wheel, which you then feed into the Projecteo.

projecteo film

The device can then project the images to up to 2.5-feet-wide using its LED light source (in a darkened room, of course.)

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MintDigital, the company behind the Projecteo, have yet to say how much one wheel will cost, although each order of the projector comes with one free wheel. That folks, is the razor and blades business model made even better. Thanks to Kickstarter the inventors managed to convince their customers into paying them before they even buy the proverbial razor. Clever folks.

Obviously Instagram will soon be flooded with pictures of the Projecteo. You can reserve a Projecteo by pledging at least $25 (USD) on Kickstarter. You’ll need to up you pledge to $40 if you’d like the version that’s colored just like an old Rollei P35 slide projector – otherwise, your Projecteo will arrive in solid white.

[via CNET]


Roto-a-Matic retro vending machine injection molds toys while you wait (video)

Roto-a-Matic retro vending machine injection molds toys while you wait (video)

The advent of 3D printing is most certainly upon us, and its helped injection molding make the crucial transition from dated tech to a retro novelty. The Roto-a-Matic has recently gone live in toy maker Rotofugi's store in Chicago, and will create a polyethylene plastic figurine for you in under a minute, provided you feed it a token. Rotofugi and product design company Squibbles INK have given the vintage Mold-a-Rama vending machine a new lease of life, and now they are looking for artists to contribute designs for future molds. Currently a one-eyed dragon designed by sculptor Tim Biskup is on offer for Chicago-based hipsters, but for the wind-averse, a token-to-toy video demo resides beyond the fold.

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