Vapor Passive Loudspeaker

What it is
The Vapor passive loudspeaker focuses and amplifies the sound from your iPod earbuds. This frees your sore ears from your earbuds when you’re at your desk or any other low-volume setting. You don’t plug anything into an outlet.

Inspiration
I was inspired to make the Vapor by an “instructable” I found on the Web that describes how to make a passive loudspeaker out of paper coffee cups. Not satisfied with the fidelity of the cups version I set out to find a way to make a better version using materials more conducive to resonance. Just as important as using more resonant materials was my need to design a speaker that would be true to the ethic intrinsic to the concept: a functional object that achieves a goal that would otherwise be done using electricity (amplifying sound in space) but does so in a more-or-less sustainable fashion.

How it works
It amplifies the sound waves from the earbuds and focuses them, making the sound directional. It makes a personal cone of sound that can be heard best when the cone is pointed right at you in a low-volume environment. Even though the Vapor passive loudspeaker is a low-fidelity monoaural sound device you’ll be surprised how good it sounds.

Design by Blain Kennedy
blainkennedy(at)hotmail(dot)com