Colorful pill-shaped speakers designed with voice command control, 360-degree audio output, and touch interface.

Ask and you shall receive. That’s the core premise behind the Whyd speaker system, a pill-shaped audio device designed to always be listening for your next command.

What’s inside the pill-shaped enclosure" A 100mm subwoofer with long excursion suspension and ferrite magnet engineered to push out deep bass even with its compact dimensions, 4 x 40 mm full range drivers with neodymium magnet and aluminium diaphragm, and Class-D amplifiers powering them all. Whyd speakers are designed to work by themselves or paired up in the same room in left/right stereo sound output.

Additionally there are five microphones listening with advanced noise cancellation that allows the speaker to discern user voice commands even with background or ambient noise battling for its attention. In that sense, one could think of the Whyd as a better looking (but limited featured) version of the Amazon Echo specifically designed for music playback.
The top of the Whyd is covered in a curved, glass touch panel that allows the voice-shy to control the speaker by touch rather than vocal command: tap to play/pause a song, swipe to go next, zoom with two fingers to increase volume, double tap to favorite the current song. Airplay, Bluetooth, and wi-fi streaming are all supported out of the box, while an iOS and Android companion app permits additional fine tuning, mult...