Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Fèrre Productes Àudio · 2023

Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire

by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

A' Design Award de Fèrre 2023 in Productes Àudio
CLIENT: Zhejiang University
Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,701
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About Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire

Tèxte del Libre: Birdy es un nautal-parlaire amb un baston de contraròtle en forma d'ausèl que permet de gerir la lectura musicala a la man. La partida inferiora es un nautal-parlaire conic amb doas membranas de 5W e un amplificador classe D bicanal. Un captador tipe manche a jòc, plaçat al som del cone, detècta lo movement de la figura d'ausèl sus los dos axes. Balançar la figura d'ausèl endavant o endarrièr ajusta lo volum, mentre que la far virar a esquèrra o a dreita permet de causir la cançon precedenta o seguenta. Birdy foncciona tanben coma assistent domestic intelligent que respond als cants d'ausèls. La concepcion cèrca de crear un ligam natural e emocional entre las personas e la tecnologia.

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Birdy Fonction Primària: Nautal-parlaire merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

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