{"id":9251,"date":"2011-03-17T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tembo_trunks_vuvuzela_inspired_music.html"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T10:31:32","slug":"tembo-trunks-vuvuzela-inspired-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tembo-trunks-vuvuzela-inspired-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Tembo Trunks: Vuvuzela Inspired Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been months since the World Cup ended but that sound of Vuvuzelas is still stuck in my head. But wouldn&#8217;t you know it &#8211; someone took the idea of the vuvuzela and came up with a concept for iPod speakers which don&#8217;t require external power. At least that&#8217;s my take on Tembo Trunks which are also collapsable and fairly unique. Tracey Schelmetic <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.tmcnet.com\/topics\/gadgets\/articles\/154356-turn-ipod-into-party-with-non-electronic-collapsible.htm\">broke the news<\/a> about these new speakers on TMCnet and another important point is they can amplify music up to 80 dB.<\/p>\n<p>They are a project on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tembotrunks\/tembo-trunks-earbud-speakers?ref=live\">KickStarter<\/a> &#8211; a site which allows a community to fund new project ideas. There are over 500 backers and to date over $28,000 has been raised. The goal seems to have been $10,000 according to the site and there are 28 days left to pledge funds if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tembotrunks\/tembo-trunks-earbud-speakers\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\" height=\"410px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been months since the World Cup ended but that sound of Vuvuzelas is still stuck in my head. But wouldn&#8217;t you know it &#8211; someone took the idea of the vuvuzela and came up with a concept for iPod speakers which don&#8217;t require external power. At least that&#8217;s my take on Tembo Trunks which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,196,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}