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While we got sucked into the Polaroid area by the iDevice lens add-ons display above, it was what we saw deeper inside that really caught our eye: They've gone into Bluetooth speakers in a major way. The reason we gave this post the title it's got is because it doesn't look like their design director said no to anything. It looks like the assignment came in to design a portable Bluetooth speaker, the team cranked out twenty cool concept sketches, and all of them got greenlit.
There were longitudinal ones roughly equivalent to what the competition's got...
...spherical ones...
...cylindrical ones...
...tiny cyclindrical ones...
...cylindrical ones that transform...
...waterproof ones meant to hang in a shower or be taken to the beach...
...rugged-looking boombox-and-dock ones...
...and my personal favorite, this apparently waterproof dock/speaker that seems to be modeled after a hurricane lamp.
I love that they made this huge a variety, and I have to wonder how they were able to afford to put out such a broad offering. The Polaroid rep had no info on prices, release dates, tech specs or even model numbers. But if this is the amount of designs they produced, that's a place I'd like to work.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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CES 2013: Polaroid Must Be the Best Place for an Industrial Designer to Work At
Also a ripoff fest. I see a complete sony and nokia ripoff in that group.
Is some factory just licensing the polaroid name?
There's your answer. Like so much at CES (why?), most of those will never be produced. Cheap hype to showcase your design explorations.
Also, Polaroid speakers??