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Small Transparent Speaker Transcends Beauty

PEOPLE Products (a spin-off of PEOPLE PEOPLE) is back on Kickstarter, this time with a downsized version of their cleverly named Transparent Speaker—the even more cleverly named Small Transparent Speaker:

Designed to look fabulous in any environment, the—icy—Small Transparent Speaker only comes in white, is wireless and is able to connect to WiFi and Bluetooth. The speaker’s sides are made from hardened glass to expose the minimal interior, and the unibody frame is crafted from white coated aluminum. 

Small Transparent Speaker is more than just an aesthetically pleasing speaker—the lil’ guy can be upcycled. This may sound funny for an electronic device, but it makes sense. Small Transparent Speaker’s design team thought ahead by admitting that their speaker has the potential to break. In case something does happen to one of their speakers, the replaced parts can be reused responsibly. Here’s how the system will work:

Broken products that can’t be repaired at home will be shipped back in empty containers traveling back to the manufacturing locations. The return shipments are already accounted for in our business model, and we will be able to refurbish, reuse or remold most parts of the products at our own factories. Our packaging design can be refolded to expose the prepaid return shipping label.

The parts.

The speaker’s $310 retail price may seem high, but it can be justified when you think about how often the electronics you currently own break with no indication of whether you can fix them or not. Maybe I’m still agitated over my brand new beats headphones deciding to stop working in one ear, but this seems like a pretty reasonable deal to me.

Small Transparent Speaker looking small and fabulous in the wild.

There’s still one month to contribute to Small Transparent Speaker’s Kickstarter.