Birdy Pengeras Suara by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Besi Produk Audio · 2023

Birdy Pengeras Suara

by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

A' Design Award Besi 2023 in Produk Audio
CLIENT: Zhejiang University
Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,701
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About Birdy Pengeras Suara

Birdy adalah pengeras suara dengan tuas kendali berbentuk burung yang memungkinkan pemutaran musik diatur langsung dengan tangan. Bagian bawahnya berupa pengeras suara berbentuk kerucut dengan dua driver 5W dan amplifier kelas D dua kanal. Sensor joystick di puncak kerucut mendeteksi gerakan figur burung pada kedua sumbu. Menggoyangkan figur burung ke depan atau ke belakang mengatur volume, sementara menggoyangkannya ke kiri atau ke kanan memilih lagu sebelumnya atau berikutnya. Birdy juga berfungsi sebagai asisten rumah pintar yang merespons kicauan burung. Desain ini bertujuan menciptakan hubungan yang alami dan emosional antara manusia dan teknologi.

About the A' Design Award Besi

Birdy Pengeras Suara adalah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengakuan yang bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain yang baik yang memenuhi persyaratan profesional dan industri yang diharapkan dari kreasi yang dirancang dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan keterampilan yang besar, spesialisasi yang tinggi, pemahaman ahli, dan kapasitas kreatif para penciptanya. Birdy Pengeras Suara diharapkan menjadi kreasi yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai yang praktis dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini mengintegrasikan praktik terbaik industri dan memiliki karakteristik teknis yang kompeten yang terkait dengan pengetahuan teknis dan bakat. Birdy Pengeras Suara dihormati karena ketelitiannya dan dirancang untuk memberikan peningkatan kualitas hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Birdy provides a more engaging way to control music playback. With its bird-shaped game stick, users can interact with their music in a unique and interesting way, making the experience feel more natural and intuitive. Designed to emulate the experience of touching and interacting with a live creature, Birdy provides a refreshing departure from traditional, lifeless speakers.
Dimensions & Packaging: The full height of the product is 316mm. The bottom cone speaker is 250mm high and the maximum diameter is 142mm.
Tags: Speaker, Emotional design, Bird, Bionics, Natural
Production Technology: The speaker features two 5W drivers with a dual-channel class D amplifier. On the top of the cone is a joystick sensor that detects the movement of the bird above it in both XY axes, thus controlling the music playback.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of the design is how to give an emotional connection to a technological artifact. We were inspired by the interaction between humans and birds, where birds have a natural connection to music. This led us to design Birdy, a speaker that offers a more natural and intuitive way to interact with technology, bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds.
Research: People communicate emotionally with their pets and we have studied various interactions between people and their pets and found that we were inspired by the interaction between humans and bird pets, where on the one hand birds have a natural connection to music and on the other hand their physical interaction between human and birds can be extracted as a way to control the music.
Inspiration: The design of Birdy is inspired by the way bird breeders often stroke and interact with their pets. The bird is located at the top and the bottom is a conical speaker. It is designed to foster emotional connections between users and the device, creating a more natural and seamless user experience.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2021 in Qingdao and finished in September 2022 in Ningbo.
Operation Flow: Users can control their music playback by swinging the bird-shaped game stick at the top, similar to a joystick. Swinging the bird backward or forward adjusts the volume, while swinging it left or right skips to the previous or next song. Additionally, Birdy is also a smart home assistant that responds to different bird calls.
Image Credits: Xin An