KMKG studio: iTree
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KMKG studio: iTree
'iTree'
all images © pixelcrash
austria-based KMKG studio's is a high-end iPod and iPhone docking station.
the form is a tree which has been hollowed out with a special technique to create a high quality
HiFi sound.
up close of docking system
KMKG studio worked together with austrian speaker builders lenz on the sound engineering components
of the iTree. each station is individual - customers can choose what type of wood and length they want
their docking system to be.
full view of 'iTree'
too bad the power cord in the shot ruins the whole cool idea.
nuscha 09.13.10
One tree one I Pod - ??? Let's cut the forest for a good cause !
Josef 09.13.10
I dont like to be negative, but this looks like a really bad idea.
- A whole tree? That cant be efficient.
- Your "design" is just a tree! Didn't do anything to emphasize natural beauty.
- Didnt allow space for battery to remove ugly cord.
- iPod just looks stuck on. Could have dedicated a knot in the wood to creat hierarchy.
- A whole tree? That cant be efficient.
- Your "design" is just a tree! Didn't do anything to emphasize natural beauty.
- Didnt allow space for battery to remove ugly cord.
- iPod just looks stuck on. Could have dedicated a knot in the wood to creat hierarchy.
Marlon 09.13.10
I love this tree, don't mind the power cord. If you build a convntional speaker system you have the same problems - wood, paint, plastic materials!!! I absolutely agree to do such a thing from a renewable source - beside that it is beautiful! (Excuse my english, I am not a native speaker)
Matthias Jäger 09.13.10
Why a whole tree?
- you need more wood and energy if you want to produce a speaker in that size and sound quality. thats why we reduced the entire design to the minimum which was a tree - one normal tree can be used for 3 iTrees and the saw dust is used to heat the carpenter's workshop space. All the materials and the craftmanship is done in a little region in south east Styria, Austria. All the creation of value stays in this region.
- we left the cable there otherwise people where thinking its a photo montage (there was a lot of internal studio discussion)
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Here a little video about the production done for the national television in Austria
- you need more wood and energy if you want to produce a speaker in that size and sound quality. thats why we reduced the entire design to the minimum which was a tree - one normal tree can be used for 3 iTrees and the saw dust is used to heat the carpenter's workshop space. All the materials and the craftmanship is done in a little region in south east Styria, Austria. All the creation of value stays in this region.
- we left the cable there otherwise people where thinking its a photo montage (there was a lot of internal studio discussion)
Join us on facebook if you like it
Here a little video about the production done for the national television in Austria
pixelcrash 09.13.10
WHHHHATTTTTT! Great inspiration!
Patricia Celiz 09.14.10
i for one really like this, and as someone who works with raw logs every day, I can really appreciate the natural material, and the energy it takes to make it into finished lumber. looks beautiful. any chance there'll be smaller ones for us apartment dwellers?
C 09.14.10
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