Archiv der Kategorie: 3.2 DESIGN-BLOGS

Improve Products with Little Effort – Example of LED Photo Light

Left: original knobs / right: newly designed knobs for tactile feedback
Left: original knobs where parameter and values cannot be seen/felt easily ||| Right: newly designed knobs with tactile feedback and better visible information

Some products are really exceptional especially when it comes to the bang-per-bucks-ratio.

One example are the Amaran/Aputure LED photo lights of type AL-H198C, a ~600 lumen battery operated LED lamp with controllable color temperature and brightness. With only one drawback: The potentiometers for the control of both parameters are (1) fiddly and (2) indistinguishable with tactile sense only.

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Tube Speaker ONE „Cyclop“ – a more or less moderate redisign of the Tube Speaker TWO

After collecting some experience with loudspeaker chassis I owned and used for two decades I longed for upgrading the chassis. I always dreamed about a single speaker approach – the ideal point source.

A tube-shaped speaker chassis is predestined for such an approach but is always limited in terms of frequency range – the british company KEF has invested decades of research to overcome this limitation: The solution is a two way system with a centered dome speaker for the high frequencies …

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