Someone needs to end this madness. This insanity. This horrifying trend of smart speakers that look like trash cans.
Ahead of CES,Erotic Vignette | Adult Movies Online LG announced its upcoming ThinQ smart speaker with built-in Google Assistant. I haven't seen it in person, and I have no idea how large (or small) it is, or even how it sounds, but I already can't stand it because its designers couldn't come up with a more imaginative look.
It's time for this trash can aesthetic to end.
SEE ALSO: Amazon's Echo Spot is the blueprint for all future smart speakersIt took a few years, but smart speakers with voice assistants that play you music, tell you the weather, control your smart home devices, and order you pizza, are officially a thing now. There's a good chance you have one in your home.
And we're only going to see more smart speakers -- regardless of whether they support Alexa, Google Assistant, or Cortana -- over the next the year. Hell, we expect to see a lot of these me-too devices in a few weeks at CES. Ugh.
It's not that I don't like smart speakers -- I really like them and own three now (I just recently added a Google Home to my Echo and Echo Dot, thank you very much) -- but the better ones with louder, clearer sound all look so B-O-R-I-N-G.
Amazon's Echo was never a looker, and it basically resembled a black Pringles tube more than a trash can, but just look at the LG ThinQ. It's a black tube with a flat top and micro-perforated sides. Sorry, maybe you think I'm stretching a bit too far, but it looks like a garbage can to me.
And when you've seen as many smart speakers as I have, it's hard not to think "Is this it? Is this the best designers can come up with?"
Here's a short list of smart speakers that look like trash cans that I can recall off the top of my head:
Amazon Echo 2
Amazon Echo Plus
Sonos One
808 Alexa Bluetooth speaker
Sony LF-S50G
Apple HomePod
LG ThinQ
The list goes on and on, and you're welcome to find every single one on your own time. Surely, there are ways to design a good-sounding smart speaker with its own unique design, right?
Thinking back on the last few years, I can't help but notice tech companies all taking inspiration from trash cans. It's unsettling and I'd probably lose my mind if I owned a Mac Pro, a Google OnHub router, an Echo (or any of the smart speakers above), andan actual garbage can.
This tweet from when I reviewed the OnHub router back in 2015 was a scary foreshadowing of this awful trend to come:
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The only major smart speaker that seems to buck this awful industrial design is the Google Home Max. It's a big block with rounded corners and it looks like a badass speaker. One look at it and you knowit'll bring the bass (it really does). It's a speaker, and it's not really trying to be anything else.
I'm praying to the tech gods Samsung's rumored Bixby-powered smart speaker doesn't look anything like a rubbish bin. I know the company can come up with something better-looking.
Tech companies, take notice! There's nothing wrong with following trends, but ones that are inspired by trash cans are, well, trash.
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