Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, iPod Family
The I-Deck brings some old school to the iPod
Feeling like something's missing from the digital age of music, with our lists of albums and artists in iTunes and tiny deck-of-cards sized iPods that fit our entire music collections in our pockets? The I-Deck might just be the fusion of old and new school for you. The album art you see is actually a touch screen that allows you to browse your library, right down to flicking the screen to skip a song, and spinning it to fast-forward - all while giving your music's album art the face time (and space) it deserves.
We received tips of this at the cool hunter, but there aren't any details on this being an actual product for sale; they simply end their post with "contact us if you require designer's contact details", so we have no idea if the I-Deck will appear in Apple Stores and Targets near you.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zhiryst said 12:53PM on 7-18-2006
wow, talk about vaporware. maybe it'll come out with the phantom. in fact, it looks like blown glass with a shitty speaker on top, i don't see wires running thru it. a good prototype. but i don't think the screen round thingy will work well.
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Pete said 1:32PM on 7-18-2006
An excellent example of neo-old school, if the speaker were of decent-to-high grade I would consider buying it simply because it starts to look classy.
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aj said 1:51PM on 7-18-2006
Looks like a graduate design project - a product concept mockup. Clever, but impractical. One, nobody makes round touchscreens (AFAIK) and the computing power needed to extract the album art, display and rotate it on a touchscreen would pretty much dictate at least an actual Mac Mini in there. And wouldn't a waveform display be better for actual scratching, a la Final Scratch? The speaker mount has no wires in it (tip-off #1) and acoustically, a mounting like that would sound terrible; the point of the 'horn' of an old victrola was to amplify a small sound generator at the base, not at the mouth. Plus, mono? Unless there's summing circuitry in there that can recombine left and right channels and not suffer from phase cancellation it's dubious at best.
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neale said 2:21PM on 7-18-2006
looks fucking cool though
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tr said 3:06PM on 7-18-2006
"The speaker mount has no wires in it (tip-off #1)"
THAT was your first tip off??? hell, look at that iPod...it looks like it's made of card stock. and why are you talking about scratching, and waveform displays? there is no mention AT ALL about using this in some sort of DJ setup, where one would scratch. it's a player, that's it.
and to address all those who routinely see a product design concept, and then feel the need to point out how the thing would never work: most often, when a design like this is created, it's not about creating an end product that can be produced right now, at this moment. the design has more to do with ideas of usage, and new and different ways to address user needs. this product seems to address the needs of the user: a large, easy to navigate user interface, and a way to incorporate physical interaction with digital media (seeing album art, flicking the screen to skip a song, etc).
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Nickbob said 4:54PM on 7-18-2006
Hmmmmm... Tubepunk. The next thing is born.
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