The Aether Cone Is the Music Player We Deserve
Remember listening to the radio? It was kind of brilliant, right? Not the technology so much as the DJs — nerdy guys in dark rooms who, when they were good, seemed to intuit our every musical desire. No fumbling through records or spinning a click wheel or funnelling frustratingly through playlist after playlist to find something we want to hear. We lost that for a while. Now, enter the Aether Cone, a speaker that’s updated the concept for the digital age. It’s replaced those banter-spewing, ad-happy DJs with an algorithm that automatically chooses music from a host of available Rdio playlists and a few other audio sources. But it’s even smarter than that. The cone takes your early commands and learns what you like to listen to, and where — it’s your own personal call-in show, only it knows what you’re going to say, that you’re into slow jams in the kitchen in the morning, or ABBA in the bedroom later on. At least that’s the idea. If nothing else, it just looks cool.
