iHome Kineta K1 Portable Bluetooth Speaker & Power Bank
- A portable Bluetooth speaker with a rechargeable, ejectable battery
- You can pop the battery out and use it as a 2600mAh powerbank or as a secret container for dinosaur embryos
- The speaker also has a built-in battery, doubling the music playback time - you get around 13 hours using both
- NFC function lets you connect immediately (with Android), as well as confuse football fans
- It’s a stereo speaker, which is a nifty surprise
- Oh, and like most of these lately, this has a mic and talk/end-call buttons
- Model: iKN150 (It’s been almost 20 years since the introduction of the iMac, and other brands are still slapping lowercase "i"s in front of their names like it’s still cool and hip. Pro tip: It’s not)
A Certain Type of Satisfaction Guaranteed
This Bluetooth speaker has a feature that sets it apart from the crowd. It’s got an ejectable, rechargeable battery you can use as a powerbank, which is cool, but that’s not exactly the feature we’re talking about. It’s this: When you hit the eject button for the battery, it comes out smoothly and extremely satisfyingly.
Go watch the demonstration video on the Amazon page to see it in action. For those of you unable or unwilling to view the video, it looks much the way this Rubik’s-Cube-solving robot ejects its finished product:
Pretty satisfying, right? We might go so far to say it’s /r/oddlysatisfying because … why? What is it about a smooth, even ejection that lights up the pleasure centers of our brains? And should it matter when deciding whether or not to buy this Bluetooth speaker?
Maybe. The designers of this speaker obviously care about the user experience — they took the time to develop a smooth eject button instead of a sudden, jarring one because they knew it would bring us joy. And that suggests they have taken similar care and attention with every other detail of their product.
It’s the same reason you would expect the network administrator who managed these cables in such glorious fashion to be otherwise trustworthy:
Whoever would give that much attention to detail to a nonessential part of their job must be even more impressive at the essentials. Right?
On the other hand, maybe they organized their cables so expertly in order to obfuscate their lack of IT knowhow. And maybe the designers of this speaker spent the entire R&D budget developing a satisfyingly slick ejection mechanism because they knew it would wow the executives.
We’re confident you’ll be oddly satisfied by the eject feature, as well. And you might also enjoy the speaker.
