Author: Nick Statt
File this one under “Kickstarter products we can’t easily explain”: a fabricated cybernetic lynx skull that doubles as a Bluetooth speaker. The Kranio X, as it’s called, is currently raising money on the crowdfunding platform for what seems like a very limited run of the product — just $1,288 was the funding goal, and it’s already surpassed that with just 19 backers.
So what, exactly, is going on here? Well, according to Hong Kong-based industrial designer Alan Wong, he created “the speaker casing in the shape of a lynx skull because he wanted to contrast a feral, organic feature with the cold, synthetic mechanical parts.” It is not a real animal skull, of course; it’s 3D modeled out of various components and then hand-painted.
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File this one under “Kickstarter products we can’t easily explain”: a fabricated cybernetic lynx skull that doubles as a Bluetooth speaker. The Kranio X, as it’s called, is currently raising money on the crowdfunding platform for what seems like a very limited run of the product — just $1,288 was the funding goal, and it’s already surpassed that with just 19 backers.
So what, exactly, is going on here? Well, according to Hong Kong-based industrial designer Alan Wong, he created “the speaker casing in the shape of a lynx skull because he wanted to contrast a feral, organic feature with the cold, synthetic mechanical parts.” It is not a real animal skull, of course; it’s 3D modeled out of various components and then hand-painted.
But...
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