Core Speaker by Mass Fidelity

Stereo sound achieved in one portable, wireless cube

A year ago, Toronto-based audio tech company Mass Fidelity raised over $1.5 million in their Indiegogo campaign for the Core speaker. The numbers and interest make sense, because this isn’t another check-off-the-boxes, cookie-cutter Bluetooth speaker joining the pretty cramped consumer audio market. Most of these compact offerings sound flat, blasting waves in a single direction and, ultimately, losing the realistic quality of recorded music. Core …

Creative Mess + Beach London’s Artist-Designed Phone Cases

Bright, bold and comical covers for your device

Cool Hunting favorite Beach London has worked with some of the most interesting illustrators in the UK today. Now, the gallery has teamed up with Creative Mess to give those artists a chance to test their creative skills on the tiny, functional canvas that is the cellphone case. As Beach’s Charlie Hood shares, “We met Ant, who runs Creative Mess, earlier this year when we …

Figment VR

A sleek iPhone case hides an easily accessible stereoscopic 3D viewer to take virtual reality anywhere

Launching today, Figment VR is vying to be another way to make virtual reality more accessible. Zi Wang, an ex-Googler, wanted to design something more portable and durable than what Google Cardboard could offer. “It is a good way to at least give people a general, quick intro to what virtual reality is,” Wang tells CH, as Cardboard’s low price and mobility makes it much …