Usually a gadget is an innovative piece of technology - nothing new, just used in a whole different way. However, the Soundbug is really more than just that.

Imagine a situation - you’re stuck with your family on a holiday. What’s worse, you’re confined to the guest house, since it’s raining heavily outside. You’re surrounded by the dullest people you’ve ever seen in your life. And all you have is a mp3 player full of 80s hard rock and the Soundbug. What do you do? Simple - you plug the soundbug into your mp3 player and stick it to some smooth surface - a window or a table. And the surface cranks out up to 75dB of hard rock.

Some basic theory: sound is vibrations. Loudspeakers vibrate the air, and the vibrations (sound) reach our ears. The Sounbug works on a simple principle - it vibrates the surface that you stick it to, and that surface creates air vibration (sound). Simple enough?

The best thing is - it comes with a common headphone jack. That means you can connect the soundbug to nearly everything - laptops, mp3 players, radios, MC players, some cellphones. By the way, the soundbug has a power saving function - after the music has stopped, it turns itself out and conserves it’s battery.

This little toy, that turns any hard and smooth surface into a loudspeaker, costs £24.95 (50$) - about as much as some good loudspeakers would cost. Found at crazyaboutgadgets.

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