Sony’s New Life Space UX Line Comes To The U.S.
Sony has made available its new line of products for Life Space UX including the LED Bulb Speaker, the new Glass Sound Speaker and the Portable Ultra Short Throw Projector. Life Space UX is a home experience concept aiming to remove barriers between technology and interior design.
The LED Bulb Speaker blends light and sound, preserving environmental atmosphere. Thanks to its size of an ordinary light bulb, it can plug in to any standard light socket and blends into any space. Connecting to smartphones and other devices via Bluetooth, and remote-operated, the LED Bulb Speaker allows users to access their music libraries and adjust sound and light settings from anywhere in the room. The speaker is also boasting a sleep timer setting. The LED Bulb Speaker is priced at $239.
The Glass Sound Speaker offers 360 degrees non-directional sound reverberated through an organic glass cylinder. An LED filament housed within the cylinder combines ambient illumination with music. Sony says that the Glass Sound Speaker’s sound structure generates high pass sound by tapping the organic glass tube to create vibration, a translucence passive radiator for low pass sound and a 50mm woofer for mid-range sound.
Maximum audio output for the Glass Sounder Speaker is 13W (woofer). Lightweight (920g with battery) and battery-operated, the speaker enables 4 hours of battery operation.
Like the LED Bulb Speaker, the Glass Sound Speaker connects both iPhone and Android along with other devices via Bluetooth. Other Sony sound technologies found in the speaker include: S-Master, DSEE, ClearAudio+ and LDAC technology. The Glass Sound Speaker will retail for $799.
Easily rotating to project images or videos, the Portable Ultra Short Throw Projector can turn flat surface into a monitor, a movie wall, a virtual window pane, or a work of art via laser light source and newly developed SXRD panel. Positioned flat against the wall or table, the projector produces a 22" image. Pulled back, the image expands up to 80" in width. Incredibly compact weighing approximately 930g with dimensions of 81mm (Width) x 131mm (Height) x 131mm (Depth) yet equipped with internal speakers and battery (up to 2 hours), the projector can be repositioned as users move throughout their home.
The projector is compatible with smartphones to become a wireless controller for photos and video. It comes with Wireless unit which can transmit contents from various devices such as PC, Blu-ray player, or cable boxes via HDMI.
The projector will retail for $999 and can be elevated with the use of a separate floor stand accessory priced at $199.
Sony partnered with the MoMA Store to offer these 3 new products in the United States in retail and online beginning this May.