Despite the fact I've donated and sold almost every CD I own, I've yet to let go of one of my favorite designs: the Muji Wall Mounted CD Player (I have the original, shown above, without the FM feature added later). The "pull the cord to turn on/off" feature, alongside the minimalist design from Naoto Fukasawa/IDEO look as fresh as the first day it was prototyped back in 1999. But times and technologies have changed, and so must this design...
The Muji Wall Mounted CD Player was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art in New York into their permanent collection back in 2005, a time when CDs were still the dominant format for purchasing and listening to music. But recognizing this era is setting while the age of digital media has arrived, Muji recently unveiled a new Bluetooth enabled wall mounted speaker system which simply enlarges the speaker face, retaining much of the original design of its CD playing predecessor.
On/Off controls are once again available with a slight tug (be sure to properly wall mount this unit, or you'll have $100 in cracked plastic), while additional control functions are available at the top of the unit and with remote, with connectivity via Bluetooth and a FM radio. Currently only available in Japan for just under $100, expect this newly updated audio design to make its way to domestic outlets sooner than later.
Via Core77
(Images: Muji)
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The spinning optical disc with perforations for sound made this design! I only wish they kept the CD player and added wireless streaming. It now looks like an old intercom box - slightly better looking, just my 2 cents.
The pulling of the cord triggering the turn of the disc is what makes the old design so delightful - it's one motion leading to another, much like an unlikely Rube Goldberg machine.
Unfortunately, the new one has the form of the old, but does not have the correlation of motion like the CD player. What remains is the ghost of the previous idea, and an unnecessary gesture to control play/stop. (Who's going to walk to the speaker to control that anyway? They pause with the phone itself.)