sugr cube Wi-Fi speaker uses tilt and flip gestures to control music
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the small portable sugr ‘cube’ speaker uses versatile motion sensing to provide hassle free control and directly connects to Wi-Fi for wireless online music streaming. the wooden housing brings rich sound and a modern look to any desk. by directly streaming music from many online radio stations, sugr plays independently from a smartphone. the music experience is never interrupted by phone calls, texts or notifications. the speaker comes with spotify ‘connect’ built right in, allowing users to directly control through the spotify app. ‘cube’ also streams with apple ’airplay’ for all iOS devices, and mac computers.

 

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the exterior casing comes in maple, cherry, black or white and houses a 10-watt full range driver with four gigabytes of flash storage. the 6000 mAh battery keeps the speaker going for 24 hours. sugr is cross-disciplinary company with designers, embedded software developers, app and server programmers and hardware product engineers. they’re located in dallas, texas, shenzhen, china and oslo, norway.

sugr-cube-wireless-speaker-designboom-02by tapping the top, the speaker plays or pauses sugr-cube-wireless-speaker-designboom-03the ‘cube’ wireless connects through Wi-Fi sugr-cube-wireless-speaker-designboom-04sugr ‘cube’ Wi-Fi speaker comes in four different shades of wood sugr-cube-wireless-speaker-designboom-05tilt left or right changes the song playing sugr-cube-wireless-speaker-designboom-06the portable speaker can be controlled via ‘airplay’ or spotify ‘connect’