The simplest radio in the world?
Not a button in sight
Tired of complicated kit that takes months to get the hang of? Well, in the Armour Home Q2 you may just have the perfect gadget for you.
This cute little 10cm cube is an internet radio – not that you could tell just by looking at it. The unit features no buttons whatsoever, just the speaker face on one side to give you some clue at least as to what it does.
Rather than playing on the fact that internet radio gives you a choice of thousands of stations, Armour Home reasons that in fact you’re only likely to stick to a few favourites at a time. So the Q2 only offers the choice of four, which you can select by plugging the cube into your computer when setting it up.
Once you’ve done that, though, choosing or changing between the four pre-set stations is simply a matter of setting the Q2 down on a different side. Holding the unit with the speaker facing upwards switches it on, and increases the volume until you set it level again.
As an exercise in minimalism it’s hard to beat, and this little button-free gadget cube can be yours in a choice of five colours for £90.
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Phil Nicholls05 November 2010
Wonderful idea and design. Put one on my list for Santa please.
Report as inappropriateNathaniel Poate05 November 2010
Already thinking how to build my own, DAB radio with preset 'frequency links' saved into eprom, accelerometer and tilt switches, should be good :) Lovely design tho
Report as inappropriateAga05 November 2010
Somehow I'm not liking that at all.. I don't know if it's the fact that I love buttons, switches and working things out but I think it would actually annoy me. lol. too simple, useless i would say. Why not just listen to the radio station online if you have access to the computer.. can't see the point :/
Report as inappropriatewize05 November 2010
Meh, I prefer more feedback. If there is no sound coming out of it I want to know if its no power, a bad wifi connection, a bad internet connection, station offline, presets lost or one of the many other faults. Not the box for me. And would since I'm usually the one called to fix problems with gadgets, I would not recommend.
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