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Wireless Resonating Speakers Turn Any Flat Surface Into Your Neighbor's Worst Nightmare

By Rain Noe - October 31, 2012

in Object Culture | Product Design

The problem with most audio speakers is that they're not designed to irritate your neighbors to their full potential. Sure, you could point your speakers directly at a window or shared wall, or place it against a floor-mounted cast-iron radiator to send the sounds of Shakira directly into the apartment below yours, but doing either of those things can diminish your own listening experience.

Well, help is here in the form of wireless resonating speakers like the Mighty Dwarf, seen above, and the Mini Dwarf, seen in the video below. These diminutive devices sound like crap when played open-air, but attach it to virtually any surface--the floor, a window, or the sheetrock between apartments 2A and 2B--and you've got a party!

Check out the demo below by fast-forwarding to 3:10:

We know what you're thinking: Can I afford one of these? Folks, with buy-in starting at just 50 bucks, you can't afford not to get one of these. You may never find out exactly who is nicking your copies of the Times, or leaving the vestibule wide open despite your persistent and thoughtfully-worded Post-Its, but someone will be made to pay.

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Ali

11 years ago

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@Valerie. I believe your real beef is probably with some turd who mounted their flat screen TV right against the wall and cranks it up all night. Try living in a condo row beside some d-bag welfare trash who does that up against your bedroom wall. Hence is why I'm buying one of these units to even the score since the cops nor management company will do nothing. I'm not swinging my fists for an assault charge neither even though I'm tempted to do more than that. Too bad we're stuck beside human trash. :(
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Valerie Celli

12 years ago

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My neighbors or someone close by has these mighty dwarf speakers and there extremely nerve racking to listen to through a shared wall. I think you invented something that is a sound nuisance to the world. I am constantly hearing the bass and feeling the vibration in the air of there music which is nerve racking like you wrote your neighbors worst nightmare is true.I was actually checking if anyone has filed a lawsuite against these speakers I think they should be removed from the market.
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Matt Perry

12 years ago

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Yes the first picture is our authentic Mighty Dwarf BlueII - Bluetooth speaker which has an MSRP of $120 USD. BlueII is available at Mightydwarf.com or online through many fine retailers and resellers.

The video is not our authentic Mighty Dwarf 5 Watt speaker so I can not speak to the quality of this particular product. The authentic product purchase entitles you to what we hope is exceptional service and support as indicated by Nikki.

The omni directional sound system of the Mighty Dwarf uses the surface the speaker sits upon to resonate and produce the sound. Therefore there is not a bad seat around the conference table when hearing the presentation - either too close or too far away from the sound source - because the table IS the source of the sound.

This is more demonstration videos available on the Mighty Dwarf website, our Youtube channel or on our Facebook page.

We welcome your suggestions and comments :-) Cheers!
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matt

12 years ago

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One doesn't need to be an audiophile to see the main drawback to this is the same as with any and all of the wireless iPod speaker solutions is the lack of true stereo sound. I'll be interested in these when they come in pairs and work together through Bluetooth to provide a true "hi-fi" experience. Until then when it comes to sound quality we're being sold ten pounds of bull in a five pound bag.
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nikki

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For one, you might want to have the comments section be more clear about requiring an email before deleting my entire comment...

For another, the mini is indeed a knockoff. Mighty dwarf is another 25$ more but better quality and it come with a guarantee!
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Joe

12 years ago

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Hi,

I did a little research. Maybe I missed something in the video but I don't think what your showing is the authentic product...

According to the website http://www.mightydwarf.com the speaker your showing in the video is a knock off of the real mighty dwarf. Shows example of how to tell if its a knock off or not, yours is shown on there. Also I don't believe there is such a thing as the " mini dwarf ". The larger image of a speaker you posted is not the Mighty Dwarf, it's the "Bluell blue tooth set ".

These are just general observations I found. I'm not trying to be a pain, just confused.
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