[The Next Web] Sony made an $800 camping lantern that plays music for some reason

Sony is making a lantern for camping, but it’s also a speaker — and costs $800. The ‘Glass Sound Speaker’ (what a terribly boring name) is a lantern up top, but basically speaker everywhere else. Just under the lighting module is a two-inch woofer for midrange sound, while the top of the glass cylinder has a “translucent passive radiator” for deeper tones. There are also three pillars that vibrate the glass to produce “realistic” sound. Speakers can also be connected, like Sonos, and work in tandem. Sony also has a proprietary app for iOS and Android called SongPal that can…

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