EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually [Speakers]

EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually [Speakers]

Just unveiled at Tokyo Designer's Week, EOps i24R3 is probably the best-looking speaker system for the iPod/iPhone I think I've seen. Plus it's jammed-full of wirelessness, so the iPod-dock, woofer-equipped base station is paired with two or more (up to eight) remote stereo speakers. And in the true spirit of iPhoneness it's gesture controlled— touch-free gestures too: you just wiggle your hand in front of the base station and control volume and equalizer functions.

The satellite speakers are gesture-controlled too... which inescapably brings to mind a passage from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy about motion-control, which saves 'a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same' thing.

There is a full-function RF-remote control as an alternative though. Plus there's a wireless dongle to let you stream music from a Mac or PC. Here's designer Michael Young demonstrating the unit:It's due on the shelves in early 2009, but with all that 2.4GHz wirelessness and sleek design, don't expect the price to be cheap.

(Via Gizmodo.)