Just as sunflowers turn towards the sun, an innovative new speaker called Solros can turn in your direction wherever you go.
That's according to the concept designer, Joon Yeol Bae, who said her name comes from the Swedish word for “sunflower.” The circular speaker technology can tell how close or far you are from it and can even adjust its volume based on distance, effectively allowing its sound to follow you as you move within a space.
Leveraging the same technology used in self-driving cars and robotic vacuum cleaners, the nature-inspired speaker has sensors to detect its location and can rotate in its direction to create a “full sound” environment.
Solros challenges the norm because most speakers can only project sound in one direction. If the listener is not sitting directly in front of it, they will hear a reflected sound instead of a direct sound.
Solros' LiDAR sensor allows it to track the listener's position and deliver more consistent sound based on their environment. The speaker can rotate 135° horizontally and 60° vertically, covering “most of the space inside a house,” according to Joon Yeol Bae.
Solros is a concept and at the moment the speaker is not available for purchase. You can know more here.
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