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’
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too bad the power cord in the shot ruins the whole cool idea.
One tree one I Pod – ??? Let’s cut the forest for a good cause !
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.
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)
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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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?