Kerchoonz K-box

Kerchoonz K-box Review

The iPod and dozens of other digital media players make it easy to take your music anywhere. Playing this music when you arrive, on the other hand, is much more difficult—at least if you intend for more than one person to hear it. You’ll need self-amplified speakers at a minimum, and these often require more electrical power than you can squeeze out of a set of batteries. Kerchoonz, a social networking and media streaming service based in Scotland, has come up with a device that promises to solve this problem by effectively transforming any flat surface into a loundspeaker. The end result of our tests? It both does and doesn’t, as you’ll quickly be chagrined to discover. We think the audio quality sucks, but we’ll explain how the device works because the concept is extremely interesting. Plug the K-box into your digital media player or laptop PC, and it effectively turns whatever surface it’s resting on into a giant loudspeaker. The trick is made possible by a new type of audio transducer technology, called Gel Audio, developed by another company in the U.K., SFX Technologies.