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Muji’s minimalist wall-mounted speaker plays music straight from your mobile

Rick Martin Rick Martin
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I’m a big fan of Japanese retailer Muji (TYO:7453) which has a wide range of affordable products which don’t really look terribly cheap. One such product is its newly released wall-mounted bluetooth speaker, which allows you to play music straight from your smartphone. The device features a fun retro on/off switch, a simple pull string in the style of old-school lamps. And its clean white design is typical Muji minimalist style, and can be mounted on your wall via a handy bracket on the back. In addition to receiving and playing music from your smartphone (within a range of 10 meters), you can also use the FM tuner if you prefer some radio. There are volume buttons on the speaker itself, but there’s also a remote control which you can use too. The speaker also includes an AC adaptor. If you’d like to check it out, drop in on a Muji store near you, although for the time being I suspect it’s not on sale outside Japan. It’s also available on the Muji website for 8,900 yen (or about $95). (Yahoo Japan)

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I’m a big fan of Japanese retailer Muji (TYO:7453) which has a wide range of affordable products which don’t really look terribly cheap. One such product is its newly released wall-mounted bluetooth speaker, which allows you to play music straight from your smartphone.

The device features a fun retro on/off switch, a simple pull string in the style of old-school lamps. And its clean white design is typical Muji minimalist style, and can be mounted on your wall via a handy bracket on the back.

In addition to receiving and playing music from your smartphone (within a range of 10 meters), you can also use the FM tuner if you prefer some radio. There are volume buttons on the speaker itself, but there’s also a remote control which you can use too. The speaker also includes an AC adaptor.

If you’d like to check it out, drop in on a Muji store near you, although for the time being I suspect it’s not on sale outside Japan. It’s also available on the Muji website for 8,900 yen (or about $95). (Yahoo Japan)

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Could Japan’s next pop supergroup be crowdfunded?

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This is part of our Crowdfunding in Japan series (RSS. Services like KickStarter have become a global phenomenon with the power to let creative individuals take their ideas to new heights. It’s happening here in Japan too, most notably on Campfire, the country’s answer to Kickstarter. The musical act The j-Pad Girls was formed in July of 2012 as part of a media art project. Each artist performs a Japanese classic hit song, and the group’s third release Kimi wo Nosete was ranked number one on the Amazon download chart, and number seventeen on the iTunes music video chart. While the singers are certainly easy on the eyes, they also have the savvy to promote themselves on the web. In their Campfire project supporting their second season, participants and winners from various beauty pageants also joined the group. The biggest factor in the popularity of Japanese supergroup AKB48 is that everyone in Japan could get involved in the building the next big idol. In the same way, by supporting j-Pad Girls through Campfire, people would get invites to the group’s private Facebook page where you can participate in polls to decide the next album cover as well as other activities….

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This is part of our Crowdfunding in Japan series (RSS. Services like KickStarter have become a global phenomenon with the power to let creative individuals take their ideas to new heights. It’s happening here in Japan too, most notably on Campfire, the country’s answer to Kickstarter.

The musical act The j-Pad Girls was formed in July of 2012 as part of a media art project. Each artist performs a Japanese classic hit song, and the group’s third release Kimi wo Nosete was ranked number one on the Amazon download chart, and number seventeen on the iTunes music video chart.

While the singers are certainly easy on the eyes, they also have the savvy to promote themselves on the web.

In their Campfire project supporting their second season, participants and winners from various beauty pageants also joined the group. The biggest factor in the popularity of Japanese supergroup AKB48 is that everyone in Japan could get involved in the building the next big idol. In the same way, by supporting j-Pad Girls through Campfire, people would get invites to the group’s private Facebook page where you can participate in polls to decide the next album cover as well as other activities. Since a Facebook account is required to become a supporter, the group can also use platform to get an accurate idea of its fan base.

The project, which set a funding target of JPY 200,000 (nearly $2,200), reached that goal and completed recruiting of the group’s first members on November 28, 2012. It will be fun to see — and listen — to how The j-Pad Girls do in 2013!

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