Teenage Engineering simply revealed a, uh, toy automobile/doodad that prices $250. Sure, it’s $250 for a bit piece of steel with wheels that you would be able to roll round a desk for a bit earlier than losing interest. The corporate tends to releases two sorts of merchandise. There are the extraordinarily costly, but fairly darn cool, audio gadgets and, properly, every little thing else. At present’s shock launch falls squarely within the latter camp.
This won’t be fairly as egregious as the corporate’s $1,600 desk that it’s a must to assemble your self or these little wood dolls that price $2,000, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a doodad that ought to price round $2.50, and never $250. Teenage Engineering says its Grip Automobile is produced from aluminum and options clean ball bearing rubber wheels. The use case situations right here appear limitless, with the corporate suggesting of us “transfer it in any path” or put it on their shelf. Wait, these are the one two.
The Grip Automobile is obtainable in three colours, to these curious, so that you’ll have your choose of pink, black or aluminum. It was created by Danish designer Anders Hermansen, who has beforehand labored with corporations like Bang & Olufsen to assist make a few of its in-wall audio system, amongst different merchandise.
By the way, the official Teenage Engineering web site has been performing peculiarly recently, with an abundance of symbols that appear to promote some form of announcement for tomorrow. The corporate confirmed to Engadget that the Grip Automobile isn’t a part of this forthcoming announcement and to maintain an eye fixed out for a press launch tomorrow afternoon. The announcement appears to be audio-related, because of the floating icons on the positioning, nevertheless it stays unknown if it’ll be {hardware} or software program.
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