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July 27, 2011 11:25 pm EDT

Speaker concept does away with the volume knob by becoming the volume knob

How to solve the problem of controls cluttering up electronics devices? Simple: make the device the controller. That's the simple but elegant solution employed by designer Hironao Tsuboi with the equally simply named Vol Speaker concept. The speaker is the knob -- or maybe the knob is the speaker. However you choose to unravel this zen-like chicken and egg riddle, the result is pretty neat.

[Thanks, Arthur]

Speaker concept does away with the volume knob by becoming the volume knob originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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